Sony Pictures Classics announced on Friday that it will release the Saoirse Ronan drama The Outrun theatrically in North America in partnership with Stage 6 Films, opening it in theaters nationwide on October 4.
The project reunites Sony Pictures Classics with Ronan, who previously starred in its 2018 film adaption of Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull.
Based on the bestselling memoir by Amy Liptrot, who co-wrote the screenplay with director Nora Fingscheidt (System Crasher), The Outrun follows Rona (Ronan), a 29-year-old who, after a decade away in London, returns home to the Orkney Islands.
Sober but lonely, she tries to suppress her memory of the events which set her on this journey of recovery. Slowly, the mystical land enters her inner world and — one day at a time — Rona finds hope and strength in herself among the heavy gales and the bracingly cold sea.
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