It is fall 1981 and a 31-year-old Bruce Springsteen has just wrapped a wildly successful tour for his latest album, “The River.” But instead of returning to the studio to produce new songs — as was the preference of his label Columbia Records — the musician retreated to a quiet house in Colts Neck, New Jersey, near where he grew up, to rest and recover.

There, intentionally isolated, but unintentionally reliving childhood trauma and subsequent depression, Springsteen ended up self-recording 10 songs that would form his seminal low-fi album “Nebraska.”

This definitive period in the rock star’s life is the background to “Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere,” a new movie directed by filmmaker Scott Cooper, which stars “The Bear’s” Jeremy Allen White as a convincing Springsteen and Jeremy Strong, of “Succession” fame, portraying his longtime manager and friend Jon Landau.

Jeremy Allen White as Bruce Springsteen and Jeremy Strong as Jon Landau. Macall Polay/20th Century Studios

The stylish biopic charts the tumultuous times of Springsteen’s early life and their influence on his music. It doesn’t, however, shy away from examining the singer’s often painful oscillation between indefatigable global rock god and fragile human, and his search for authenticity and belonging when separated from his working class roots.

It’s a dichotomy also conveyed through Springsteen’s clothing — his eminently familiar blue collar ‘Americana’ uniform of Levi’s jeans, leather jackets with the collar popped, plaid flannels, white tanks and boots, which the now 76-year-old can still be seen in today.

In a video interview with CNN, the