SPRINGSTEEN: DELIVER ME FROM NOWHERE

Director: Scott Cooper
Starring: Jeremy Allen White, Jeremy Strong, Odessa Young, Stephen Graham, Gaby Hoffman, Marc Maron

The new Bruce Springsteen biopic, Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, feels like the acoustic version of your standard music biopic. That’s a good thing. Emmy winner Jeremy Allen White shot to fame on The Bear, and now he’s tasked with playing The Boss. Bruce Springsteen is coming off a sold out tour playing “Born to Run” to massive crowds. He’s only in his early 30s in 1982 and still has a massive career ahead of him. He needs a break and is feeling the exhaustion that comes with the intensity for which he plays at. He heads back to his hometown in New Jersey where he’s faced with his childhood growing up with an alcoholic father (Graham) whose marriage to his mother (Hoffman) is toxic. As a kid, Bruce is face to face with their tumultuous marriage. Now as an adult, he’s reflecting on that time unsure of what lies ahead. Jeremy Strong plays Bruce’s manager and recorder producer, Jon Landau, who is getting pressure from the label for Bruce to crank out another big album and strike while the iron is hot. Bruce isn’t interested in making a big new album. Instead, he’s found inspiration by watching Terrence Malick’s film Badlands and decides to test out some tracks in his bedroom with a raw, acoustic tone. That album would become “Nebraska” defying every expectation put on him. In theaters

Here’s my review