Followed by a conversation with writer & director Scott Cooper.

In 1981, after his first number-one album (The River) and top-ten single (“Hungry Heart”), Bruce Springsteen was on the verge of becoming a worldwide sensation and fulfilling the vision of his manager, the former music critic Jon Landau, who had written just a few years earlier, “I saw rock and roll’s future, and its name is Bruce Springsteen.” Instead, Springsteen stepped back and isolated himself in his native New Jersey with an acoustic guitar, a portable four-track recorder, and Suicide’s eponymous debut album to lay out his personal demons on a cassette that became one of the most introspective DIY albums in history: Nebraska. Sunken in a depression and haunted by family ghosts, Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere is the story of a man facing the darkness that surrounds an anxious, luminous heart before embracing the future that awaits him.

2025. USA. Written and directed by Scott Cooper. Based on the book by Warren Zanes. With Jeremy Allen White, Jeremy Strong, Odessa Young. DCP courtesy 20th Century Studios. 120 min.

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