Ronan stars as a young woman struggling with alcoholism in the Orkney islands of Scotland.
In lambing country, an outrun is the wide sweep of land where a dog can run out and encircle a flock of sheep without scaring them to calmly guide them in.
Rona's alcoholism is not pretty, but the film, even when bleak, is beautiful. “The Outrun” is based on the best selling memoir by Amy Liptrot. The film shows Rona in ecstasy at raves in London before she comes home to her childhood home on the Orkney Island. She believes she can’t be happy sober. There have been many great roles for actors playing alcoholics, characters that can be very ugly, as this illness is, but the audience always roots for them. The supporting characters — namely Rona’s mother and boyfriend — portray the stomach-churning feeling experienced by people who love alcoholics, who see the behaviors that they may not remember.
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