Music biopics are notoriously tricky to pull off because the stories of well-known musicians/bands tend to follow similar trajectories. Some — like the Amy Winehouse film Back to Black — have followed the discovery-to-star arc. Others, like the Bob Dylan film A Complete Unknown , have kept the focus tighter to try to reveal something richer about a particular artist.

Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere takes the latter track, meeting up with Bruce Springsteen (Jeremy Allen White) when he’s already an established star, finishing up his tour for his 1980 album, The River . Exhausted, he retreats to his New Jersey home, where he soon starts writing songs for what will become his next album, Nebraska , featuring stripped-down tunes that are a far cry from previous hit

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