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Bruce Springsteen's journey crafting his 1982 album Nebraska, which emerged as he recorded Born in the USA with the E Street Band.
Recommended ages 12+ for strong language, some sexuality/nudity and smoking and drinking.
Adapted from Warren Zanes’s Springsteen biography Deliver from Me from Nowhere, the film, which premiered at Telluride Film Festival, roughly takes place over a pivotal two-year period in the singer/songwriter’s life. Inundated by fame after scoring a top 10 hit with “Hungry Heart,” Springsteen decides to rent a house in Colts Neck, New Jersey. The record company expects Springsteen to write the songs that’ll catapult him into a cultural phenomenon. But Springsteen has more pressing matters on his mind. He’s sitting alone in a dark house reading Flannery O’Connor, driving to his abandoned childhood home, going to the movies to watch “Night of the Hunter,” and is repeatedly watching Terrance Malick’s “Badlands.” He buys a four-track TEAC 144 Portastudio recorder hoping that will catch the bleak musical thoughts rattling around in his head. He even begins a relationship with Faye (Odessa Young), a single mother who regularly attends his impromptu blues sets at the Stone Pony where he does howling covers of John Lee Hooker’s “Boom Boom” and Little Richard’s “Lucille.” - Robert Daniels, RogerEbert.com