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\n\tMost music biopics take place in a world of alternative facts where Queen<\/a> broke up before Live Aid,<\/a> Elton John<\/a> named himself after John Lennon,<\/a> M\u00f6tley Cr\u00fce<\/a>\u2018s Vince Neil sang Billy Squier\u2019s \u201cMy Kind of Lover\u201d before it was released, Amy Winehouse<\/a> didn\u2019t thank \u201cBlake Incarcerated\u201d at the Grammys, and Bob Dylan<\/a> hooked up with Joan Baez the night of the Cuban Missile Crisis. These movies stretched the truth so thin that \u201cWeird Al\u201d Yankovic was inspired to make a glorious film<\/a> about his life that was 100 percent factually inaccurate, culminating in a scene where (spoiler alert!) he\u2019s gunned down at the 1985 Grammys by a hitman working for Madonna.<\/p>\n \n\tEvery once in a while, however, a movie comes along that sticks shockingly close to the truth. It happened in 2014 with the Brian Wilson biopic Love & Mercy,<\/em> even though the timeline was occasionally massaged a bit, and it\u2019s happened again with the upcoming movie Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n \n\tMuch like Love & Mercy<\/em>, Deliver Me From Nowhere<\/em> makes no attempt to tell the entire story of a great artist\u2019s life. It instead focuses squarely on the narrow window of time between 1981 and 1982 when Springsteen recorded his lo-fi masterpiece Nebraska,<\/em> convinced his label to release it without modifications, and struggled with depression and his inability to connect with a romantic partner. Along the way, it flashes back to the Fifties and Springsteen\u2019s difficult relationship with his father.<\/p>\n \n\tWe normally focus on factual errors when music biopics roll out, but we\u2019re taking a different course this time since this one got all the big things right, and only cheated around the margins, most notably with the creation of a composite character. It should be noted that Springsteen was involved in this movie from the very beginning, and was present on set for much of the filming. He clearly helped them make most everything in the film accurate to his life and experiences. (This article is packed with spoilers, so we encourage you to only read after you\u2019ve seen the movie.)<\/p>\n