Bruce Springsteen fans have been eagerly flocking to movie theaters to catch Scott Cooper’s “Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere” since it opened last Friday.
The biopic, starring Jeremy Allen White as The Boss, chronicles the leadup to Springsteen’s 1982 album Nebraska, delving into the New Jersey-born legend’s mental and professional demons and how they factored into the project.
While “Deliver Me from Nowhere” is meant to be an authentic look at Springsteen’s life, one Bruce superfan noticed a mistake in the writing of the film.
X/Twitter user @GenZBruceFan, who according to NJ.com is actually a 24-year-old Connecticut woman named Laura V., hinted at the error on social media three weeks ago.
“They made a tiny trivial mistake about Bruce Springsteen’s life in Deliver Me from Nowhere. It does not detract from the film but I clocked it immediately. I think I will reveal it around Halloween,” she tweeted back on Oct. 9.
One scene doesn’t pass muster…or mustard
On Sunday, five days before Halloween, Laura revealed the error. It occurred during a scene in which Springsteen tells the young daughter of Faye Romano, the woman he is dating, that his favorite condiment is mustard.
“In Deliver Me from Nowhere, Bruce Springsteen says his favorite hotdog condiment is mustard but in real life, Bruce Springsteen HATES mustard so much he did a whole yap about it during a show,” she wrote, linking to footage of a 2016 Springsteen concert in the tweet.
In Deliver Me from Nowhere, Bruce Springsteen says his favorite hotdog condiment is mustard but in real life, Bruce Springsteen HATES mustard so much he did a whole yap about it during a show 😭 https://t.co/FihgyWI1NW pic.twitter.com/78MrLWT0la
— gzbf is being delivered from nowhere (@GenZBruceFan) October 26, 2025
In the concert clip, Springsteen waxes poetic about a sandwich he used to eat during his childhood, making sure to note his distaste for mustard of all kinds.
“I used to order a ham sandwich with cheese and lettuce and a lot of mayonnaise but no mustard,” Springsteen said. “Don’t give me no f—–g Grey Poupon!”
“I don’t like any mustard!” he continued. “I don’t like it on my hot dog, I don’t like it on my sandwiches, no. So I would have ham, cheese, lettuce, a lot of mayonnaise on white bread.”
Despite blunder, “Deliver Me” delivers, fan says
Laura made it clear in her NJ.com interview that despite the condiment gaffe, she is a fan of the movie, which she has seen several times.
“I loved the film,” she says. “I feel like if I was the director (Scott Cooper) I would have done some things differently but that doesn’t make it inferior, it just means we have different visions. I was also intentionally going in with a positive attitude. I am a policy/social work student so my career/school require a lot of deep heavy analysis so sometimes I need to consume media in a way that doesn’t strain my brain any further.”
“Deliver Me from Nowhere” currently has a 60% score on Rotten Tomatoes, along with a 6.9/10 on IMDB and a 3.3/5 on Letterboxd.
To read Men’s Journal writer Declan Gallagher’s full review on the film, click here.
