Springsteen & I (2013) on Netflix
NR20131h 17mDocumentary
Bruce Springsteen's songs have shaped listeners for forty years. Fans sent in footage, photographs and audio about what that music meant to them, and those accounts sit beside live performances.
- Netflix4.2/5
- IMDb7.2/101,730 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes94%
Plot summary
Fans of Bruce Springsteen were asked to turn their cameras on themselves. From mid November 2012, people around the world sent in short videos, photographs, old footage and audio narration about what his songs had done in their lives, whether they had followed him for decades or discovered him only recently. Each clip had to run under five minutes, and any camera would do. More than 300 hours of material arrived, and every submission was watched before the accounts were cut into a feature. The documentary gives those voices as much room as the musician himself, and it also carries live performances from his recent tour.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Springsteen & I (2013)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Director Baillie Walsh personally watched every fan submission for Springsteen & I, over 300 hours of footage from thousands of people, after worrying he might receive as much as 4,000 hours.
- Baillie Walsh spent six months editing Springsteen & I and deliberately left out fan stories about how generous Springsteen is and about 9/11, saying the singer came off as god-like and he was not comfortable with those stories.
