Deliver Me From Nowhere is based on the life of the legendary Bruce Springsteen, and the film got most of his story right. The biopic stars Jeremy Allen White as the iconic singer. The Deliver Me From Nowhere cast also includes Jeremy Strong as manager Jon Landau, Paul Walter Hauser as recording engineer Mike Batlan, Stephen Graham as Springsteen's father, Gaby Hoffmann as Springsteen's mother, Odessa Young as love interest Faye Romano and more. The film follows Springsteen during the creative process of his 1982 album, Nebraska. While recording the album, Springsteen faced personal and professional struggles. While the biopic was filmed, Springsteen was involved behind the scenes. As Deliver Me From Nowhere premiered in theaters Friday, October 24, many fans wondered what the movie got right and what was dramatized for the sake of the plot. Keep scrolling to see what's fact and fiction in the film. Spoilers for Deliver Me From Nowhere below: Fact: Bruce Springsteen Recorded 'Nebraska' on Tape After Springsteen finished his tour, he started experimenting in his bedroom with a home-recording machine that recorded four tracks on a cassette. The recordings were meant to just be a rough draft before he went to the studio with the E Street Band. However, Springsteen enjoyed how raw everything sounded on tape. Fact: Bruce Springsteen Wrote 'Born in the U.S.A.' Then Shelved It Bruce Springsteen Jesse Grant/Getty Images for 20th Century Studios While recording Nebraska, Springsteen also wrote "Born in the U.S.A." around the same time. He got his inspiration for the track's name after reading a script sent to him by Paul Schrader. Springsteen was not interested in pursuing a film career and was solely focused on his music. The first draft of "Born in the U.S.A." was acoustic and bluesy before he got the chance to record the track with his band. While Springsteen liked how it turned out, he ended up holding onto the song for two years before ultimately releasing it. Fact: Bruce Springsteen Had a Strained Relationship With His Father Deliver Me From Nowhere gives insight into Springsteen's ups and downs with his father, Douglas. One of the movie's opening scenes shows a young Springsteen going into a bar to retrieve his dad on his mom's request. Springsteen previously confirmed this happened in his 2017 one-man show, Springsteen on Broadway. "This both thrilled and terrified me," Springsteen told the crowd, per Rolling Stone. "It thrilled me because I had been given the license by my mother, the law, to go into the bar! I'm a kid! But it terrified me because to enter the bar is to enter my father's privileged, private and sacred space. He was not to be disturbed when he's down at the bar. Everybody knew that ... I would stand there lost in the noise and the hustle of the crowd and I would drink in that dim smell of beer and booze and aftershave. Now, to a kid, that was the scent of adulthood. It was the scent of manhood. I wanted some of that." Another scene shows Springsteen stepping in to defend his mother from his dad with a baseball bat. Springsteen recalled the moment in his memoir Born to Run. "They were standing in the kitchen, my father's back to me, my mother inches away from his face while he was yelling at the top of his lungs," he wrote. "I shouted at him to stop. Then I let him have it square between his broad shoulders, a sick thud, and everything grew quiet. He turned, his face barroom red; the moment lengthened, then he started laughing. The argument stopped; it became one of his favorite stories and he'd always tell me, 'Don't let anybody hurt your mom.'" Fiction: His Relationship With Faye In the movie, Springsteen meets Faye, a single mom who works as a waitress, who goes on to date the musician. However, Faye is not a real person in Springsteen's life. Instead, she is a fictional character inspired by several women Springsteen dated during the time period. In an August 2025 interview with The New York Times, director and screenwriter Scott Cooper revealed that Faye was "a composite of women" that he imagined Springsteen "had seen over the years during this particular time in his life."