The Outrun
(2024)
Overview
Fresh out of rehab, Rona returns to the Orkney Islands—a place both wild and beautiful, right off the Scottish coast. Now 29 and after more than a decade of living life on the edge in London, where she both found and lost love, Rona attempts to come to terms with her troubled past. As she reconnects with the dramatic landscape where she grew up, memories of her traumatic childhood merge with more recent challenging events that have set her on the path to recovery.
Director
Nora Fingscheidt
Writers
Amy Liptrot, Nora Fingscheidt, Daisy Lewis
Top Billed
Saoirse Ronan
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Reviews
CinemaSerf
⭐ 7/10September 20, 2024
If you are fan of the very adaptable Saoirse Ronan then you'll probably love this - she throws just about everything into the role of "Rona". She has returned to her mother's home in Orkney to recover from a fairly torrid time of booze and drugs in London. The timelines are threaded together to drip feed us the causes of her current predicament whilst looking at her own efforts to get - and stay - clean. Of course, there are domestic issues at ho… read the rest.
griggs79
⭐ 7/10September 29, 2024
Saoirse Ronan totally nails it with her amazing performance in this intense addiction-recovery drama, making it super powerful and engaging.
Brent Marchant
⭐ 6/10December 25, 2024
The struggle to overcome addiction is indeed a noble one, and it’s been the subject of many fine films over the years. The same is true of movies that explore individual efforts to get one’s life back on track by returning home to one’s roots, both as a way of finding oneself and healing. And, in the latest effort from writer-director Nora Fingscheidt, viewers get some of both of these cinematic motifs, based on the fact-based memoir penned by au… read the rest.
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Status
Released
Original Language
EN
Budget
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Revenue
$3,983,828