According to writer-director Scott Cooper ("Crazy Heart"), at its core, the film is the story of a neglected soul repairing himself through music. Bruce was coming off the enormous success of "The River," and from the outside, it looked like everything was going right. But inside, he was quietly unraveling, experiencing a kind of emotional vertigo, the feeling that the life he’d built no longer matched the weight he was carrying. Bruce was also haunted spiritually by his father. Haunted by the fear of success, of no longer being like the people he grew up with in Freehold. Out of that haunted state-of-mind came one of the greatest records of the last 50 years, "Nebraska." Bruce didn’t walk into that recording studio to make a record. He walked in because something deep inside was clawing to get out.

Production on "Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere" began in October 2024, filming primarily on location in and around New Jersey, including Montclair and the Jersey Shore, with additional locations in New York City, Memphis, and Los Angeles.

Immediately following the screening, Deadline’s chief film critic Pete Hammond, who canalso be seen on PBS SoCal's Must See Movies, moderates an in-person Q&A with producers Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, Eric Robinson and Scott Stuber.

Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere Q&A

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