· 2019
1h 28m
Director Tom Jones
Starring Bruce Springsteen, Steven Van Zandt, Southside Johnny, David Sancious
Genre Documentary
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The story of the long troubled town of Asbury Park, and how the power of music can unite a divided community.
While the film may feel at times like it was made under the auspices of an Asbury Park tourism board, it’s at least a theoretical tourism board that has a good awareness that a dystopia doesn’t shift back to utopia overnight, or even over a neat 50 years.
The Hollywood Reporter by Frank Scheck
While Asbury Park: Riot, Redemption, Rock 'n' Roll too often feels like a promotional video created by a local tourism organization, it nonetheless provides an engaging history of the town and its once-vibrant music scene.
A starstruck Jones hardly pushes his interviewees on it, but somewhere in his naggingly monotonous morass of talking heads is the tale of how the Boss gained a social conscience.
Its real value is as an oral and visual history of Springsteen, where he met his bandmates and the musical milieu he was fortunate enough to grow up in.
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