In the fall of 1981, on the precipice of a career breakout, Bruce Springsteen retreated from the spotlight to his rural New Jersey home with nothing but an outdated four-track recorder and a notebook. The resulting album, the stripped-down, anti-commercial “Nebraska,” is one of Springsteen’s most personal works and one of his greatest triumphs .

The new biopic “Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere” focuses almost exclusively on the production of “Nebraska” and the personal anguish Springsteen channeled into the work. The resulting film is a faithful adaptation of Warren Zanes’ book about that period in Springsteen’s life, when he was consumed by a deep depression.

When a bevy of record executives question the commercial appeal of “Nebraska” in the movie, you can imagine director Scot

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