Who’s the Boss? Jeremy Allen White and Scott Cooper Dissect Their Springsteen Movie

It doesn’t make any sense, which is why it makes perfect sense. If you were going to make a movie about Bruce Springsteen and you cared about box-office returns, you’d focus on the breakthrough with “Born to Run,” the world conquest with “Born in the U.S.A.,” the response to 9/11 with “The Rising.” You’d play the hits, you’d play them loud and you’d want people coming out of the theater shouting, “Tramps like us, baby we were born to runnnnn!”

The thing is, Bruce Springsteen doesn’t like those kinds of greatest-hits biopics.