Scott Cooper’s Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere (2025) catches the Boss in between albums, fresh from a successful tour and on the verge of making history with his next project. The Bruce Springsteen biopic, based on Warren Zanes’s book Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska, doesn’t break new ground in terms of its plotting. But the movie is unusual in that it portrays a music icon at a low point, haunted by his past and confused about his direction.
The downbeat, brooding tone didn’t exactly endear the movie to American viewers when it was released in October. Oscar voters too gave Deliver Me from Nowhere a pass despite Jeremy Allen White’s admirably internalised performance.
Springsteen fans looking for the hits will find them only in snatches. What the biopic does well is deliver a profile of Springsteen at a particular point in his life, which helps make sense of the songs he was writing in the early 1980s.
The film, which is out on JioHotstar, begins with a flashback to Springsteen’s troubled childhood, chiefly because of his alcoholic father Douglas (Stephen Graham). As an adult, Springsteen struggles to reconcile his newfound popularity with memories of Douglas’s violent behaviour.
Among the key characters is Springsteen’s loyal manager and music producer Jon...
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