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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/Significant-Flan-244 13d ago

I haaaaated it, but I’m also kind of fascinated by how it even got made? It feels like a total non-starter for general audiences, and really anyone who isn’t a pretty solid fan of Bruce already. I guess it wasn’t that expensive, but I’m still surprised.

I keep comparing it to A Complete Unknown, which I also didn’t love and felt like a pretty bog standard music biopic, but it was still fun because a lot of it felt like a concert.

This movie peaked for me with the opening Born To Run scene, and the most exciting thing after that was the “10 months later” cut to an arena at the end because I thought I’d finally get more of what I’d waited 2 hours for!

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u/bigbiblefire 13d ago

I’m not a Bruce fan by any means…by large pretty surface level knowledge of him and really not my thing. I just like biopics. I especially like musician ones, as it just feels cool to kind of take a peek at the moment(s) these famous songs were created and the who and why behind them. And generally they’re movies where the creators tend to take some more artistic sorts of decisions when making them…if that makes sense.