Sony Pictures Classics has picked up Saoirse Ronan’s addiction drama THE OUTRUN for a fall theatrical release. Director Nora Fingscheidt’s film, which stars Ronan as a young Scottish woman from the Orkney Islands who repeatedly plumbs rock bottom before finally resolving to control her alcohol addiction, will be released by StudioCanal in the U.K. and Ireland on Sep. 27. The project reunites Sony Pictures Classics with Ronan, who starred in the 2018 film adaption of THE SEAGULL.

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A highly-anticipated trailer for the new Saoirse Ronan film THE OUTRUN has been released. Based on Amy Liptrot’s best-selling memoir and directed by Nora Fingscheidt, the movie stars Saoirse Ronan (FOE) and Paapa Essiedu, a life-changing escape into the wilds of Orkney. The Oscar nominee gives one of her greatest performances as a young woman grappling with addiction in a moving and delicate adaptation of Liptrot’s memoir.

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FOE star Saoirse Ronan’s next film THE OUTRUN will hit Irish theatres on September 27. According to The Hollywood Reporter Saoirse’s character will be named Rona and the plot will follow her journey as she finishes rehab and heads to Scotland’s wild Orkney Islands for the first time in a decade. While Rona attempts to reconnect with her childhood, she revisits the landscape in which she grew up and along the way, discovers memories that ” merge with the more recent challenging events that have set her on the path to recovery.”

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While filming THE OUTRUN, Saoirse Ronan delivered lambs, swam with seals and communed with her fair share of flora and fauna. The four-time Oscar nominee plays Rona, a young woman who leaves London and returns to her small hometown on Scotland’s Orkney Islands as she charts her course to sobriety while experiencing all the harsh realities and natural wonders that a tiny, wind-swept isle off the coast of Scotland has to offer. 

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FOE star Saoirse Ronan is busy promoting her powerful new drama THE OUTRUN at Sundance Film Festival. Based on a true story, the film showcases Ronan’s acting prowess as she expressively embodies a woman passing through a mighty crucible, mostly on her own. 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. 

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