Springsteen & I

2013

124 mins

Directed by Baillie Walsh
94%
78%
Documentary
Music

A big screen celebration of New Jersey's most famous son - The Boss, Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen. The documentary, billed... More

A big screen celebration of New Jersey's most famous son - The Boss, Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen. The documentary, billed as "made by the people and for the people", uses fan-submitted video, stories and photographs to chart the singer-songwriter's 40-year rock career and the impact his music has had on the lives of diehards.

Director Baillie Walsh and executive-producer Ridley Scott offered an open invitation for people to submit video, photographs and personal reflections on Springsteen. Said Walsh at the time: "We are searching for a wide variety of creative interpretations, captured in the most visually exciting way you can think of... If you can't use a camera or are not sure how to capture your story then get in touch and we will link you up with someone who can." The documentary was then constructed around the submitted video plus previously unseen concert footage.

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Springsteen & I | Ratings & Reviews

94_%17 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes® rating
78_%1,286 reviews
Audience score rating

"You pity the kids of the more Boss-obsessed but there's pomposity-pricking humour and uplift here, too."

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Total Film

"All the little blue-collar Bosses and Bossettes out there in Jungleland will lap up this lively low-budget love letter."

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Time Out

"This isn't really a film, it's memorabilia."

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The Telegraph

"There are, however, a couple of bits that seem to get to the heart of Springsteen's singular place in the pop music world."

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Los Angeles Times

"As much as this is a film about extreme fandom and joys of getting close and personal with a music legend, Walsh's film also offers a neat examination into the art of stage banter."

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Little White Lies

"Springsteen and I gathers these homemade tributes into an effusive feature that will resonate with the kind of die-hard Boss fans who helped make it, but quickly grows tiresome for the less devout among us."

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