Bruce Springsteen, portrayed by Jeremy Allen White, is a depressed 32-year-old returning to Freehold after a triumphant year touring with the E Street Band. He channel-surfs and watches Terrence Malick's Badlands, recognizing its story of disconnection and violence as a mirror for his own alienation. The recognition propels him toward creative reinvention and compels him to write an album confronting the empty promise of deliverance. The film, adapted from Warren Zanes' book and directed by Scott Cooper, frames Springsteen's imminent megastardom as entwined with unresolved childhood trauma, vertigo about the future, and the threat of a nervous breakdown.
"Deliver Me from Nowhere" - that's what we're calling it - is a semi-desolate sketch of a biopic about a depressed 32-year-old man who channel surfs across a much better movie on TV one night in the fall of 1981. The man is Bruce Springsteen (a possessed Jeremy Allen White), the movie is Terrence Malick's "Badlands," and its story of a Korean War vet who takes his 15-year-old girlfriend on a killing spree across the American heartland
Adapted from Warren Zanes' book of the same name, and directed by Scott Cooper ("Out of Furnace") with all of his usual self-seriousness, the chilly but tender "Deliver Me from Nowhere" begins with Bruce returning to Freehold after a triumphant year on tour with the E Street Band. He's on the cusp of the megastardom he would claim soon thereafter, but even closer to the brink of a nervous breakdown.
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