The Outrun

Name: The Outrun
Genre: Drama
Released: October 4, 2024
Duration: 118 min
Rating: 72
Cast: Danyal Ismail, Izuka Hoyle, Lauren Lyle, Nabil Elouahabi, Naomi Wirthner

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Sony Pictures Classics | Release Date: October 4, 2024 | R

Starring: Danyal Ismail, Izuka Hoyle, Lauren Lyle, Nabil Elouahabi, Naomi Wirthner, Paapa Essiedu, Posy Sterling, Saoirse Ronan, Saskia Reeves, Stephen Dillane, Tony Hamilton-Croft

Summary: After living life on the edge in London, Rona (Saoirse Ronan) attempts to come to terms with her troubled past. She returns to the wild beauty of Scotland's Orkney Islands - where she grew up - hoping to heal. Adapted from Amy Liptrot's bestselling memoir.

Director: Nora Fingscheidt

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: R

Runtime: 118 min

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Movie Nation Roger Moore

Oct 7, 2024

Few movies about getting sober are as brilliant at conveying the allure of drowning, wallowing in alcohol, the emotional and physical liberation it seems to offer, as The Outrun. And rare is the story told within this most personal of experiences that exults in its trials, the gut check of “one day at a time” and the exultant release from the trap of addiction. Read full review

IndieWire David Ehrlich

Jan 22, 2024

Fingscheidt’s nonlinear approach allows the film to ride the tidal rhythms of addiction, while Ronan’s committed performance churns those ebbs and flows into a widescreen journey that earns its epic backdrop. Read full review

The Observer (UK) Wendy Ide

Sep 29, 2024

The intelligence and craft of the film-making, the way Fingscheidt guides us along the emotional journey of the central character, is absorbing. Read full review

Ross McIndoe

Aug 19, 2024

With The Outrun’s neat but poignant metaphor work in mind, mental illness and addiction are understood as natural responses to the conditions of a ravaged life. Read full review

Ty Burr

Oct 4, 2024

The Outrun is a recovery drama lifted above the genre’s necessary clichés by the star’s prickly, incandescent presence. It’s also boosted by the film’s setting in the stark Orkney Isles in the north of Scotland and by Fingscheidt’s poetic approach to time, place and chronology. Read full review

Collider Ross Bonaime

Jan 22, 2024

Director Nora Fingscheidt adapts Amy Liptrop’s memoir of the same name like a master conductor, melding the past and present expertly to create a staggering look at addiction through a magnificent performance by Ronan. Read full review

Owen Gleiberman

Feb 2, 2024

On its own unvarnished, metaphoric, diary-of-destruction-and-renewal terms, The Outrun is competent and even stylishly made, yet I have to confess: I found the movie overwhelmingly drab. Read full review

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