Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere

Friday, October 24 until Thursday, November 6, 2025Yukon Theatre

Don't miss the biopic of the The Boss! From the director of Crazy Heart.

This drama chronicles the making of Bruce Springsteen’s 1982 “Nebraska” album when he was a young musician on the cusp of global superstardom, struggling to reconcile the pressures of success with the ghosts of his past. Recorded on a 4-track recorder in Springsteen’s New Jersey bedroom, the album marked a pivotal time in his life and is considered one of his most enduring works—a raw, haunted acoustic record populated by lost souls searching for a reason to believe.

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