×Jeremy Allen White in Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere

When Bruce Springsteen released Nebraska in 1982, his fans were startled by the sudden shift in words and music. The gorgeously conceived rock and pop of Born to Run and the forebodings of Darkness at the Edge of Town gave little clue for Nebraska’s pivot to stark acoustic ballads of failed working-class lives and unmet dreams.

The period of his life that nurtured Nebraska is dramatized in Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere . Jeremy Allen White plays the Boss just as fans imagined him. Leading the E Street Band at the end of their 1981 tour behind The River , he’s a manic dynamo on stage with enough electricity to light an entire city. (The band is credibly recreated as well). Backstage, he’s an exhausted musical

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