Based on Warren Zanes' 2023 book Deliver Me from Nowhere and Springsteen's 2016 autobiography Born to Run (named after 1975 album of same name), Scott Cooper's biopic is scored by Jeremiah Fraites.
Oh, book and film's subtitle are taken from lyrics in State Trooper and Open All Night.
Jeremy Allen White - Bruce Springsteen
Jeremy Strong - Jon Landau
Paul Walter Hauser - Mike Batlan
Stephen Graham - Douglas Springsteen
Odessa Young - Faye Romano
Gaby Hoffmann - Adele Springsteen
Marc Maron - Chuck Plotkin
David Krumholtz - Al Teller
Harrison Gilbertson - Matt Delia
Additionally, Matthew Anthony Pellicano plays young Bruce.
Summary
Although occasionally switching to Bruce's difficult relationship with his abusive father Douglas in 1957, bulk of film is set in 1981, focusing on how Nebraska was created on a four-track recorder in the bedroom of an isolated house in Colts Neck, New Jersey.
Before end credits roll, wall of text informs:
Nebraska was released on 30 September, 1982 and reached No.3 on the charts.
The shelved Colts Necks tracks evolved into Born in the U.S.A., the album that launched Springsteen to global stardom.
He continued to struggle with depression but never again without help or hope.
No singles. No tour. No press.
The Bear is impressive, but nearly two hours was still pretty perfunctory and ticks every clichéd box.
Much like Bill Pohlad's Love & Mercy, Scott Cooper makes no attempt to tell the entire story, just a small snippet.
Musical biopics are notorious for straying from the truth, such as Elton John naming himself after John Lennon (Rocketman), Bob Dylan hooking up with Joan Baez on the night of the Cuban Missile Crisis (A Complete Unknown) and Queen breaking up before Live Aid (Bohemian Rhapsody).
But owing to Springsteen's involvement from the very beginning, events are obscenely accurate.
Well, apart from fictional love interest Faye Romano (based on former girlfriends).
Without going into everything, The Boss wrote album's title track (initially called Starkweather) after watching Terrence Malick's remarkable 1973 debut Badlands on TV, and went on to research newspaper articles about the murders film is patterned on.
The characters of Charles Starkweather and his accomplice Caril Ann Fugate were changed to Kit Carruthers (Charlie Sheen) and Holly Sargis (Sissy Spacek) respectively.
And thematically at least, True Romance (1993) ripped shit off.
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