Released in 1982, before Bruce Springsteen became a global superstar with Born In The U.S.A. but after the heartland rocker scored his first Billboard chart-topper with The River , Nebraska is a singular record — a dark, brooding, deeply vulnerable sonic howl into the void from a man trying to learn how to live with the ghosts that haunt him. The greatest compliment that can be paid to Scott Cooper’s Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere — which chronicles the period in which that album was created — is that when it finally gets going, it really does feel like Nebraska . It’s just the getting going that may be off-putting for some.

The start is strong. Cooper’s movie begins with a monochromatic flashback to late ’50s Freehold, New Jersey, where a young Bruce Springsteen (Matthe

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