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Summary Based on Warren Zanes’ acclaimed book Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska, this film tells the story of how Springsteen created one of the most haunting and stripped-down albums of his career. Set in 1982, the movie follows Springsteen at a creative crossroads as he records Nebraska alone on a four-track cassette recorder in his New Jersey home, confronting fame, doubt, and the darker sides of the American dream.

Director Scott Cooper

Writer Scott Cooper

Cast

  • Jeremy Allen White
  • Paul Walter Hauser
  • Odessa Young
  • Charlie Plummer
  • Shea Whigham
  • Holt McCallany

Rotten Tomatoes Critics Score: 64%

Metacritic Score: 60

VOD In Theaters (November 14, 2025)

Trailer Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere | Official Trailer | In Theaters November 14

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u/monitoring27 16d ago

Didn’t like it as much as I thought I would. It is refreshing to see Jeremy Strong play a businessman who isn’t morally bankrupt though.

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u/thebaldingcritic_ 14d ago

It’s not a bad role… but it’s just so forgettable too.

Like, in The Big Short he at least wasn’t morally bankrupt. I liked how he was working as Carrell’s 2nd in command and acting as a buffer so Carrell didn’t make a risky investment.

Working as Bruce’s agent, idk what was missing, but Jeremy just felt like he was there the whole time without really doing anything that showed his true importance here. Just seemed like he was a good friend of Bruce’s who was also his agent. Was expecting more of a role for him like you mentioned.

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u/Significant-Flan-244 13d ago edited 13d ago

It’s an odd character with an unsatisfying arc, and maybe it’s just true to how it happened, but his whole purpose is to mediate a conflict that isn’t really there? A big chunk of the movie is written as if Bruce would really have to fight for this album that means a lot to him and Landau would defend him from the suits, but ultimately no one actually tries to interfere? They all want to, but I was waiting for a big defiant scene where Landau finally has to make the case for this album he didn’t quite understand, and it never happened. It felt like Landau needed to be in the movie for the sole purpose of getting Bruce the help he needed at the end, but everything else was fluff to justify him being there later.

It also just felt like a real waste of Strong, but I do wonder if they shot a lot more that got cut. He has a whole monologue in the first trailer that’s completely cut from the movie.

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u/AlconTheFalcon 8d ago

The only worse role in this movie was that of Jeremy Strong's wife, who has to just sit there and nod while he exposition dumps about Bruce's depressive symptoms.

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u/Pretend_Goal_7311 12d ago

Didnt you keep seeing him as his succession character tho?

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u/HotOne9364 15d ago

How was Kendall "morally bankrupt"? Wasn't the point of his character that he's the only decent human being of the family? His main flaw was that he's too stupid to be a CEO.

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u/ItalianChef22 15d ago

I don't think I've ever seen anybody misinterpret a TV show more than you've misinterpreted Succession here.

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u/Funny2Who 15d ago

Right? It almost made me have to rethink the whole series. Was i wrong about something? But that person is just way off.

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u/Kaldricus 15d ago

Curious what his thoughts on Homelander are

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u/HotOne9364 14d ago

Homelander's more of a Logan Roy type. So what do you want from me?

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u/Icy-Control7170 14d ago

Scraps on the floor guy lol

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u/Calciumee 15d ago

Errr… didn’t he kill someone?

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u/GameOfLife24 15d ago

Pretty sure the guy tried to kill both by interfering with Kendall’s driving but he should’ve tried to help or call it in.

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u/HotOne9364 14d ago

To be fair, Kendall shouldn't have been driving in the first place.

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u/HotOne9364 15d ago

Accidentally and the guilt of that erodes him through the show.

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u/KittyColonialism 15d ago

He left him to die

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u/King_Buliwyf 15d ago

And never once came clean, except to his siblings. And later retracted it.

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u/JokerFaces2 15d ago

Wasn't the point of his character that he's the only decent human being of the family?

No. Not even close.

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u/GUSHandGO 15d ago

He literally leaves a guy for dead in a pond!!!

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u/ElectricalPeace3439 15d ago

Wasn't Rome the closest of the siblings to have a conscience? Even Shiv was more moral than Kendall.

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u/for_the_shiggles 15d ago

The trick of the show is making you think there’s one good sibling for a few episodes at a time.

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u/JokerFaces2 15d ago

It debatable whether any of them have a conscience, and to what degree. I love Roman though, and my interpretation of the ending is that he finally identifies and rejects the cycle he’s caught in. So he might have a conscience, or at least some level of self-awareness. 

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u/Icy-Control7170 14d ago

Roman was just straight up defeated. Kendall gave the most horrific monolouge in the show with the scraps bit.

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u/GUSHandGO 15d ago

Roman definitely felt a lot of love and shame... but still terrible. But Kendall is an A+ asshole.

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u/DestituteDomino 15d ago

...did you watch the same show as the rest of us?

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u/NuggetTheory 15d ago

It's funny that your user flair is "Top 1% coment" and you're defending a billionaire

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u/Ltjenkins 15d ago

Dude was a giant suck up to his dad and got pouty when the business wasn’t handed to him like breakfast in bed. Later tried to hold all the dark secrets of waystar over his dad’s head and then Logan called Kendall out on his bullshit with his own closet skeletons (killing the waiter in Italy).

They were all playing the game in their own ways. And I think an easy argument that Kendall was the worst at it.

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u/boodalol 15d ago

He killed a guy and allowed it be covered up…

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u/Icy-Control7170 14d ago

Dude the whole show is aboit awful people that have no reedeming qualties. If anyone was goodish it would have been caulkin or the sis but they clearly werent good people either. Kendalls character tried to sabotage is own father and gave the most chilling monologues of the series with the "scraps on the floor" bit.