Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere (12A)

Jeremy Allen White is a convincingly tortured rock star in this smartly narrow and specific look at a particular chapter of music history.

Based on Bruce Springsteen's authorised biography of the same name, the film takes place over a pivotal two-year period in the singer/songwriter’s life.

It’s 1981, and Springsteen (White) returns to New Jersey after touring his first No 1 record, The River, on the brink of superstardom but burned out. Record execs want him to strike with more hits while the iron is hot; Bruce wants to hole up in a rental house and tinker with the ideas that will become his 1982 album Nebraska.

It then picks up steam in the aftermath of his genius, as Bruce’s team scramble to preserve the haunted sound of his demos. Meanwhile, Bruce’s mental health crumbles along with his relationship with local waitress Faye (Odessa Young). The fear he often felt around his volatile drunk of a father (Stephen Graham), and the anxiety of his mother (Gaby Hoffman) are still very much with him. Deliver Me from Nowhere is a beautiful, haunting portrayal of a rock superstar.