The Outrun (2024)
You can't outrun your fate
Director: Nora Fingscheidt · Writers: Amy Liptrot, Nora Fingscheidt, Daisy Lewis
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.
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Director
Nora Fingscheidt
Cast
Saoirse Ronan
Rona 
Paapa Essiedu
Daynin 
Nabil Elouahabi
Samir 
Izuka Hoyle
Gloria 
Lauren Lyle
Julie 
Stephen Dillane
Andrew 
Saskia Reeves
Annie 
Naomi Wirthner
Amanda 
Tony Hamilton-Croft
Gary 
Posy Sterling
Rita 
Danyal Ismail
Pascal
Scott Miller
Young Andrew User Reviews (3)
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 home too with her father suffering from bi-polar disorder and her mother having turned to religion which add to the turbulence of her life. In the end, she takes a job working on a remote island for the RSPB trying to find an example of the once plentiful but now rare corn crake. With the weather closing in on her small cottage and her determined to get well again despite the familial pressures, the woman has her work cut out for her. Can she stay …
Saoirse Ronan totally nails it with her amazing performance in this intense addiction-recovery drama, making it super powerful and engaging.
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 author and journalist Amy Liptrot. The film follows the odyssey of London-based biologist Rona (Saoirse Ronan), whose wild child tendencies and descent into alcoholism cost her a promising career and a loving relationship with her significant other, Daynin (Paapa Essiedu). But, after successfully undergoing a 12-step program, she decides to return home to the Orkney Islands just off the coast of Scotland to recover and regroup. While there, h…
