"Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere"

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2025

⏱️ 89 minutes

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For this week's main podcast review, Ema Sasic, Katie Johnson, and Tom O'Brien join me to discuss the latest film from Scott Cooper, "Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere," starring Jeremy Allen White, Jeremy Strong, Paul Walter Hauser, Stephen Graham, Odessa Young, Gaby Hoffmann, Marc Maron & David Krumholtz. Written and directed by Scott Cooper and based on the 2023 book "Deliver Me from Nowhere" by Warren Zanes, as well as some elements from Bruce Springsteen's autobiography "Born to Run," it chronicles Springsteen's personal and professional struggles during the conception of his 1982 album "Nebraska." The film had its world premiere at the 2025 Telluride Film Festival, where it received positive reviews for its performances, emotional honesty, and character-driven story of confronting depression and turning pain into art. What did we think of it? Please tune in as we discuss the performances, writing, direction, tone, its awards season chances, and more in our SPOILER-FILLED review. Thank you for listening, and enjoy! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... Apple Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWA7KiotcWmHiYYy6wJqwOw And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture and listen to this podcast ad-free Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You are listening to The Next Best Picture podcast, and this is our review of Springsteen,
0:05.6	Deliver Me from Nowhere.
0:07.2	I was trying to write this song.
0:10.6	It's about struggling.
0:15.4	Feeling lost.
0:18.3	Being alone.
0:24.1	And it goes something like this.
0:29.6	Bruce, we're rolling, so whenever you're ready.
0:32.8	Last night I dreamed that I was a child. Nobody but Bruce can tell stories like these.
0:43.3	Out where the pines grow.
0:46.3	But I don't understand why an Ars would make this record.
0:50.3	He's channeling something deeply personal.
0:55.0	I ran with my heart down me, down that broken path.
1:03.0	These songs are about someone who is guilty.
1:07.0	Guilty of leaving behind the world he comes from.
1:15.2	All right, everybody, you were just listening to the trailer for Springsteen deliver me from nowhere,
1:19.6	and the story is as follows.
1:21.4	On the cusp of global superstardom, New Jersey rocker Bruce Springsteen struggles to reconcile
1:26.2	the pressures of success
1:27.5	with the ghosts of his past as he records the album Nebraska in the early 1980s.
1:33.0	The film is starring Jeremy Allen White, Jeremy Strong, Paul Walter Hauser, Stephen Graham, Odessa Young, Gabby Hoffman, Mark Marin, and David Krumholtz.
1:42.3	It is written and directed by Scott Cooper and here to join me today for
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