The Outrun (film)

The Outrun is a 2024 drama film directed by Nora Fingscheidt from a screenplay she co-wrote with Amy Liptrot, and a story the two co-wrote with Daisy Lewis, based on the 2016 memoir of the same name by Liptrot. A co-production between the United Kingdom and Germany, it stars Saoirse Ronan, who also serves as a producer, along with Paapa Essiedu, Nabil Elouahabi, Izuka Hoyle, Lauren Lyle, Saskia Reeves, and Stephen Dillane in supporting roles.

The film premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival on 19 January 2024, and is scheduled to be released by StudioCanal in the United Kingdom on 27 September 2024, and later in Germany on 7 November.

Premise
Rona, a young woman recently out of rehab for alcoholism, returns home to the Orkney Islands.

Cast

 * Saoirse Ronan as Rona
 * Paapa Essiedu
 * Nabil Elouahabi
 * Izuka Hoyle
 * Lauren Lyle
 * Saskia Reeves
 * Stephen Dillane

Production
In January 2022, it was announced Nora Fingscheidt would direct a film adaptation of Amy Liptrot's memoir The Outrun, with Saoirse Ronan set to star and produce, and Fingscheidt and Liptrot writing the screenplay. Production commenced in Orkney in August 2022.

Release
StudioCanal is set to release the film in the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Austria. The film is scheduled to be theatrically released in the United Kingdom on 27 September 2024, and later in Germany on 7 November. Protagonist Pictures is overseeing worldwide sales for the film, with CAA Media Finance also selling North American rights. The film was sold to Filmcoopi and Cineworx for Switzerland, Cinéart for Benelux and Stage 6 Films for all other international territories excluding North America. On 12 July 2024, Stage 6 was announced to be partnering with sister company Sony Pictures Classics on the film's North American release, scheduling it for a theatrical release on 4 October 2024.

The film premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival on 19 January 2024. It was also screened at the 74th Berlin International Film Festival in the Panorama section in February 2024.

Critical response
The Guardian Adrian Horton termed it "a moving and delicate adaptation" that "avoid[ed] the many cliches of the cinematic memoir adaptation", and took particular note of "Ronan’s tremendous performance". David Rooney of The Hollywood Reporter wrote, "Fingscheidt’s third narrative feature continues her visceral explorations of the scarred female psyche" and added that Ronan "puts herself through the physical and emotional wringer" in an "emotionally charged performance".