Jeremy Allen White as Bruce Springsteen in ‘Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere.’ (20th Century Studios)

On the last Velvet Underground studio record (that featured any of the original members), Lou Reed sang about a girl — she was just five years old! — whose life was saved by rock ’n’ roll . Maybe you could identify. You know who else was saved? Bruce Springsteen.

For Lou and his protagonist, AM radio announced an exciting and different world than the one they were raised in. For Bruce, the twang of a disembodied voice backed by an electric guitar suggested a way out of his shy silence, his overbearing father’s house and his hometown.

When Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere — a compromised movie about an unwavering artist, scripted and directed by Scott Cooper ( Crazy Heart

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