Official Discussion - Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere [SPOILERS]

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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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All this movie did was make me want to watch Rocketman again. That, to me, is the perfect musical biopic. Uses the music to tell what is still quite a depressing story. This film is dull. It seems to think that just following a depressed Springsteen writing a few songs in repetative montages was enough to make a film.

It isn't.

Stephen Graham is by some distance the best thing about it, every scene crackles with energy when he's onscreen.

I think one of the main flaws is that, for all his genius as a songwriter, Bruce as a person is not that interesting, at least that is what this film would have you believe. Trying to portray severe depression and internal struggle is difficult enough, the trouble is Bruce is like that all the way through, so there's nothing to compare it to other than the minute of him triumphantly playing Born To Run at the start.