In 1982, Bruce Springsteen was floppy-haired and 33, an established but restless star. From his New Jersey bedroom he recorded an album called Nebraska on a four-track recorder. The songs explored themes familiar to blue-collar America—the grind of manual labor and dreams of success that often end in disappointment. “I guess there’s just a meanness in this world,” he sings in one track. The album came as Springsteen stood on the brink of global superstardom, soon to arrive with Born in the U.S.A.. The film Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere, written and directed by Scott Cooper and starring Jeremy Allen White as Springsteen, chronicles this pivotal moment in the musician’s life. —Elena Clavarino