SYNOPSIS
Based on the best-selling memoir by Amy Liptrot.
After a decade away in London, 29-year-old Rona (Saoirse Ronan) returns home to the Orkney Islands. Sober but lonely, she tries to suppress her memory of the events which set her on this journey of recovery. Slowly the mystical land enters her inner world and – one day at a time – Rona finds hope and strength in herself among the heavy gales and the bracingly cold sea.
THE OUTRUN was nominated for nine BIFAs and two BAFTAs, including Outstanding British Film. Saoirse Ronan won Best Actress at the Critics Circle and IFTAs.
DIRECTOR: Nora Fingscheidt
SCREENPLAY BY: Nora Fingscheidt and Amy Liptrot
STARRING: Saoirse Ronan, Paapa Essiedu, Nabil Elouahabi, Izuka Hoyle, Lauren Lyle, with Saskia Reeves and Stephen Dillane
PRODUCERS: Sarah Brocklehurst, Dominic Norris, Saoirse Ronan, Jack Lowden
PRODUCTION COMPANIES: Brock Media, Arcade Pictures
FINANCIERS: BBC Film, Screen Scotland, MBK, FFA, Medienboard, NRW
DISTRIBUTION: Studio Canal, Sony Classics Pictures, Cineart, Filmcoopi
SALES: Protagonist Pictures
“The Oscar nominee gives one of her greatest performances as a young woman grappling with addiction in a moving and delicate adaptation of Amy Liptrot’s memoir”
The Guardian
“Saoirse Ronan brings a quiet defiance to this elegant study of addiction... Even at its most sentimental, there’s something bracing about The Outrun’s consistent lean toward the symbolic, even the poetic – in a genre often geared toward strenuous, grimy realism.”
Sight & Sound
“The Outrun is a sensitive, non-judgemental portrayal of addiction and mental illness, anchored by a typically transcendent performance from Saoirse Ronan.”
Empire
“You can almost taste the salt and feel the sting on your skin: clean, gritty, a little painful, entirely exhilarating. Which is what healing is like. Which is how it feels to meet the world, broken and battered and born anew.”