Talk about family mementos — the Springsteens of Freehold have a doozy.
The upcoming Bruce Springsteen biopic, “Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere,” includes scenes of the Boss’ homelife in Freehold well before he became the Boss. Springsteen and his younger sister Virginia Shave watched the movie before it was screened Aug. 29 at the Telluride Film Festival in Colorado.
Bruce, 75, shared Virginia’s reaction to the film during a Telluride panel on Friday.
“I got to watch the film with my one-year-younger sister who is just a little blonde girl on the film, but it was actually a little brown, short-haired girl,” said Springsteen, according to a Variety report. “But she sat there with me and we watched the film and she held onto my hand, and at the end of it, she turns to me and says, ‘Isn’t it wonderful we have this?’ ”
Jeremy Allen White and Odessa Young star in “Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere.” The above scene was filmed on the beach in Asbury Park.
Bruce’s youngest sister is Pamela Springsteen. They’re the children of Douglas and Adele Springsteen.
The upcoming “Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere,” starring Jeremy Allen White as Springsteen, frames the Boss’ recording of his 1982 stark lo-fi classic “Nebraska” as a mission of self-repair, according to the trailer.
Bruce’s relation with his dad, fractured during his teen years, is pivotal in the movie.
British actor Stephen Graham plays Douglas Springsteen. In Freehold, Gaby Hoffmann as Adele and Matthew Anthony Pellicano as a pre-teen Bruce filmed a scene downtown in January driving a black Studebaker outside the Saffron Fine Indian Cuisine restaurant, which was made to look like a hardware store from the 1950s, as cars from the bygone era drove by.
The film, directed by Scott Cooper, is based on the book “Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska” by musician Warren Zanes. It’s scheduled to hit movie theaters on Friday, Oct. 24.
Reviews from Telluride have been favorable.
“If you’re looking to celebrate the anthemic hits of blue-collar New Jersey’s favorite son, this highly personal movie might not meet your requirements,” said the Hollywood Reporter. “But serious fans — particularly those who admire the lo-fi 1982 album ‘Nebraska’ — should connect with the intimate drama.”
“In an industry where even ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic has a movie about his life story, it’s about time the Boss got his due,” said Variety.
“Harder to achieve though is capturing a star much further along and at the crossroads of his career, a crisis point where it just wasn’t in the cards to only ‘play the hits,’ ” said Deadline. “It is watching the birth of a true artist, free now to go his own way and one who is still very much evolving. After more than half a century at it, Springsteen’s ‘glory days’ may be aging, but with the hope of the future informed by his past, he still rocks.”
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Chris Jordan, a Jersey Shore native, covers entertainment and features for the USA Today Network New Jersey. Contact him at [email protected]
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