CLEVELAND, Ohio – In a moving dramatization of Bruce Springsteen’s dark period surrounding the creation of “Nebraska,” the film “Deliver Me From Nowhere” leans with surprising honesty into the struggles of artistic identity and mental health.

We had a chance to check out the film, which captures multitudinous forces driving Springsteen in the early 1980s: He wrote “Nebraska” the same time as he was penning songs for “Born in the U.S.A.” – two very different albums musically and lyrically. Meanwhile he was dealing with memories of a pained childhood.

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What’s most memorable about the movie isn’t just the depiction of Springsteen as a legendary rock star, but as a complex, flawed man grappling with

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