A music biopic focusing on Bruce Springsteen's journey crafting his 1982 album ‘Nebraska’, which emerged as he recorded ‘Born in the USA’ with the E Street Band.
Released between the seminal 1980 double album ‘The River’ and the definitive leap to superstardom four years later with ‘Born in the U.S.A.’, ‘Nebraska’ was a bold career move and not the fresh crop of Top 10 singles for which Columbia Records likely was hoping. A thematically dark acoustic collection built from a DIY recording, it was inspired by Flannery O’Connor stories, Terrence Malick’s ‘Badlands’ and Springsteen’s unaddressed childhood trauma. Jeremy Allen White (‘The Bear’) gives a raw, internalized performance as The Boss, with Jeremy Strong, Stephen Graham and Odessa Young co-starring. What the film and White’s agonized, internalized performance amply convey is the state of mind from which one of the most important albums in the Springsteen canon - the one he considers his best - materialized.
USA 2025 Scott Cooper 120m
