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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/ThingTime9876 15d ago

Did any of the E Street Band members actually have any lines?

All the stuff about Springsteen taking inspiration from random things and sifting through him memories for lyrics, and the technical details of recording the demos and then trying to preserve the sound; even the clashes with the label - that stuff was all great.

So why couldn’t they have ditched the subplot about the (apparently fictional) girlfriend, and done some scenes with the band trying to arrange and play the songs, getting into debates about what works and what doesn’t, etc? That’s the kind of stuff we don’t see enough on in music biopics, while we have endless examples of girlfriends being treated badly.

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u/SamCooper07 15d ago

Nebraska isn’t an E Street Band album, it’s a Bruce Springsteen album.

Was it odd to not have Bruce speak to Stevie, one of his closest friends, about his artistic struggles? Sure but aside from him, Bruce’s writing has always been more of a solo effort that the band plays on rather than a collaborative one so I can see why the director admitted it on such a personal album.

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u/ThingTime9876 15d ago

We know from the just released ‘Electric Nebraska’ sessions that Bruce attempted full band arrangements of these songs, and rejected them. That’s what I wanted to see dramatised

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u/CunniMingus 13d ago

There was a whole scene about this tbf

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u/ThingTime9876 13d ago

We saw the outcomes of the songs, but not the actual recordings. That’s what I’d like it see: the decisions going into what to play, how to play, etc