Title: 8 Mile (film)
Content: Jimmy and his friends and family Eminem as Jimmy "B-Rabbit" Smith Jr. ; Kim Basinger as Stephanie, Jimmy and Lily's mother ; Chloe Greenfield as Lily, Jimmy's sister ; Michael Shannon as Greg Buehl, Stephanie's freeloading abusive boyfriend ; Mekhi Phifer as Future, Jimmy's closest friend and the rap battle host ; Brittany Murphy as Alex Latourno, Jimmy's love interest ; Evan Jones as Cheddar Bob, Jimmy's friend ; Omar Benson Miller as Sol George, Jimmy's friend and Iz's brother ; De'Angelo Wilson as DJ Iz, Jimmy's friend and Sol's brother ; Taryn Manning as Janeane, Jimmy's ex-girlfriend ; Craig Chandler as Paul, Jimmy's colleague 
Title: 8 Mile (film)
Content:  Kwanda Khalimashe as the Kid Rappers ; Eugene Byrd as Wink, a DJ ; Anthony Mackie as Clarence "Papa Doc" ; Proof as Lil' Tic ; Xzibit as Mike, Male Lunch Truck rapper ; Obie Trice as Male parking lot rapper ; John Singleton as Bouncer ; Miz Korona as Vanessa, Female Lunch Truck rapper ; Gerald L. “Strike” Sanders as Lyckety-Splyt, the first rapper Jimmy battles against ; Nashawn "Ox" Breedlove as Lotto, the second rapper Jimmy battles against ; Brandon T. Jackson (uncredited) as a Chin Tiki club-foe ; Waverly Alford III as Big O, Male Rapper interviewed at the Radio Station   
Title: 8 Mile (film)
Content:  supervisor bluntly dismisses his request because of his habitual tardiness. Later on, Jimmy befriends a woman named Alex (Brittany Murphy), and he begins to take more responsibility for the direction of his life. At some point, Stephanie receives an eviction notice, as she cannot pay rent. Despite her best attempts to keep the eviction notice a secret, Greg finds out about it and confronts Stephanie. When Jimmy punches Greg for pushing his mother to the ground, they fight, ending in Greg leaving Stephanie for good. Jimmy's friendship with Wink (Eugene Byrd), a radio DJ with ties to a record label promoter, becomes strained after he discovers that Wink does 
Title: 8 Mile (film)
Content:  at a recording studio, but Jimmy finds Wink and Alex having sex. Enraged, Jimmy attacks Wink as Alex tries to break up their altercation. In retaliation, Wink and the Leaders of the Free World assault Jimmy outside his trailer. The leader of the gang, Papa Doc, holds Jimmy at gunpoint and threatens to kill him, but Wink dissuades him. After the group has left Jimmy alone, his mother arrives with enough money to pay to avoid eviction, having won $3,200 at a bingo tournament. Jimmy's best friend and battle host, Future (Mekhi Phifer), pushes him to get revenge by competing against the Leaders of the Free World at 
Title: 8 Mile (film)
Content:  work for Jimmy's rivals, a rap group known as the "Leaders of the Free World". At one point, Jimmy and his friends get into a violent brawl with the Free World crew, which is disrupted when Jimmy's friend Cheddar Bob (Evan Jones) pulls out a gun and accidentally shoots himself in the leg; he survives after being rushed to the hospital. During a lunch break at work, one of Jimmy's coworkers (Xzibit) performs a freestyle rap insulting a gay co-worker, Paul (Craig Chandler). Jimmy raps a freestyle defending Paul. Alex arrives and is impressed by Jimmy's actions and they have sex. Wink arranges for Jimmy to meet with 
Title: 8 Mile (film)
Content:  next rap battle. Jimmy agrees, but his boss, having noticed improved effort at work, asks Jimmy to do a late-night shift. He agrees, but it conflicts with the battle at the Shelter. Alex unexpectedly visits Jimmy at work. She says goodbye, as she is going to New York, and she is hoping to see Jimmy at the Shelter later. This motivates Jimmy to do the battle. He asks Paul to cover the start of his shift as a favor while Jimmy goes to the battle. In all rounds of the rap battle, Jimmy has to compete against one member of the Free World crew. After handily winning the 
Title: Mile 81
Content:  In the version in The Bazaar of Bad Dreams, several more characters are eaten by the station wagon, including a horse owner, an insurance man, the parents of two young children, and a police trooper.
Title: Eight (play)
Content:  Miles is an American man in his mid-twenties. He is dressed in a sharp suit and is attractive due to a corporate aesthetic. He should carry himself with ultimate bodily and vocal composure. The cracks in this composure should be perfectly synchronised with the glimpses of weakness in his performative façade.
Title: 8 Mile (film)
Content:  8 Mile is a 2002 American musical drama film written by Scott Silver and directed by Curtis Hanson. It stars Eminem in his film debut, alongside Mekhi Phifer, Brittany Murphy, Michael Shannon, Anthony Mackie, and Kim Basinger. The film, which contains autobiographical elements from Eminem's life, follows white rapper B-Rabbit (Eminem) and his attempt to launch a career in hip hop, a genre dominated by African-Americans. The title is derived from 8 Mile Road, the highway between the predominantly African-American city of Detroit and the largely white suburban communities to the north that Eminem originally lived in. 8 Mile was a critical and box office success. It opened at in the US with $51.3 million grossed in its opening weekend and an eventual total of $242.9 million worldwide. The album's accompanying soundtrack was also a commercial success, being certified quadruple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). The film garnered numerous award nominations and wins, including an Academy Award for Best Original Song for "Lose Yourself" win for Eminem, Luis Resto and Jeff Bass at the 75th Academy Awards. 8 Mile was named one of the best films of 2002 by several publications.
Title: Eight Mile, Alabama
Content:  Eight Mile is an unincorporated community in Mobile County, Alabama, United States. The community is named for its distance from the city of Mobile. Part of it was annexed in the mid-20th century by the city of Prichard, Alabama.

Question: who do the characters represent in 8 mile?
Answer: loosely on Eminem.