‘Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere’ Breaks the Biopic Mold

The biopic “Bohemian Rhapsody” is about Queen. “Rocketman” is about Elton John. “Elvis,” as you’d imagine, is about Elvis.

“Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere” is about depression. As it happens, its protagonist is Bruce Springsteen.

That’s an aberration, obviously, in the increasingly prevalent world of music biopics. There are no fictionalized scenes depicting pivotal moments in music history, as was the case in last year’s Bob Dylan biopic, “A Complete Unknown.” There are few depictions of onstage theatrics a la “Bohemian Rhapsody,” though bits of “Born to Run” and a studio recording of “Born in the U.S.A.” are thrown in to break up the melancholy.

For the most part, though, “Deliver Me From Nowhere” is about wrestling with and struggling to understand what’s inside the mind. Becau