'Springsteen' Buzz: Nine Actors Who Won Oscars Playing Real Musicians
The film depicts Springsteen’s creative and emotional struggles during the making of his raw, haunting 1982 album Nebraska, capturing a pivotal moment in his career.
- On Friday, Oct. 24 the film Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere opens nationwide, starring Jeremy Allen White and directed by Scott Cooper.
- The film focuses on Springsteen's early-1980s period, chronicling the making of the 1982 Nebraska album recorded on a 4-track recorder in Springsteen's New Jersey bedroom.
- Rotten Tomatoes' early tally finds a mixed critical consensus with a 65% fresh rating based on 84 reviews, as Jordan King and David Fear gave fresh reviews while Bob Strauss and Odie Henderson rated it rotten.
- Jeremy Allen White's performance anchors the film, widely praised for channeling Bruce Springsteen's cadence and quiet intensity, while Jeremy Strong's portrayal of manager Jon Landau is a compelling support.
- Critics call the film moribund and not cinematic, faulting its fictional girlfriend character and Springsteen's family issues and song interpretations, alongside the $80 Electric Nebraska outtakes box set.
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What Did Bruce Springsteen's 'Deliver Me From Nowhere' Biopic Get Wrong?
Deliver Me From Nowhere is based on the life of the legendary Bruce Springsteen, and the film got most of his story right. The biopic stars Jeremy Allen White as the iconic singer. The Deliver Me From Nowhere cast also includes Jeremy Strong as manager Jon Landau, Paul Walter Hauser as recording engineer Mike Batlan, Stephen Graham as Springsteen’s father, Gaby Hoffmann as Springsteen’s mother, Odessa Young as love interest Faye Romano and more.…
Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere delivers an honest, deeply human look at Bruce in his darkest period
It may not hit every note perfectly, but Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere is an honest, heavy, and deeply human look at Bruce Springsteen during arguably one of his darkest periods, one that still showcases the music-making process – read on for our full review.
Writer-Director Scott Cooper Moves Through the Stations of the Boss
Many of us would like to know where great art comes from and at what cost, but the enduring relevance of that insoluble riddle doesn’t quite answer: Who is the muted melodrama Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere for? Bruce Springsteen diehards? The emotional crisis dramatized here is old news to us. Bruce agnostics? Can’t imagine they’d bother, given the diceyness of music biopics in the post-Walk Hard era. Audio geeks? This movie certainly is …
Here Are All the Songs in 'Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere'
Jeremy Allen White becomes The Boss in “Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere,” a new biopic from Scott Cooper about the life of Bruce Springsteen. The film specifically focuses on the making of “Nebraska,” Springsteen’s iconic sixth studio album. Released in 1982, “Nebraska” was of a different temperature than Springsteen’s other music, with the rock star stripping down the production to create a more intimate album. Springsteen recorded “Nebras…
The Boss was riding high. ‘Springsteen’ shows what happened next.
The new movie “Springsteen,” drawn from a book, portrays a more subdued Bruce than the one whose rousing concert images pepper the internet. The film mines the origins of the “Nebraska” album looking for what drives a living legend.
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