Every moment is another chance.
For Jimmy Smith, Jr., life is a daily fight just to keep hope alive. Feeding his dreams in Detroit's vibrant music scene, Jimmy wages an extraordinary personal struggle to find his own voice - and earn a place in a world where rhymes rule, legends are born and every moment… is another chance.
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Character
Earnest, classical in form, grave and effortless.
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- effortlessdemanding
- resolvedopen-ended
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41 profiled raters. Loved most by The Prestige Hunters; disliked most by The Provocateurs.
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Cast
- EminemJimmy
- Kim BasingerStephanie
- Mekhi PhiferFuture
- Brittany MurphyAlex
- Evan JonesCheddar Bob
- Omar Benson MillerSol George
- De'Angelo WilsonDJ IZ
- Eugene ByrdWink
- Taryn ManningJaneane
- Larry HudsonBouncer
Crew
- Curtis HansonDirector
- Scott SilverWriter
- Rodrigo PrietoDirector of Photography
- Jay RabinowitzEditor
- Craig KitsonEditor
- Brian GrazerProducer
- Jimmy IovineProducer
- Curtis HansonProducer
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