Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere is not the Bruce Springsteen biopic many fans are going to want. It’s not a career-spanning survey. It’s not an epic tour through his life and music. It’s set entirely over the course of a couple months in 1981 and 1982, when Springsteen moved home to Central New Jersey after The River tour and started recording songs alone in his bedroom. The demos eventually became Nebraska , a dark, spare, acoustic album in which Springsteen himself is the only credited musician.
Of course, when Nebraska came out in 1982, it wasn’t the Bruce Springsteen album many fans wanted either. In its strongest moments, Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere is the Nebraska of Bruce biopics: A dark, spare character study that narrows its focus on Bru