It was “very emotional” for filmmaker Nora Fingscheidt to co-write the screenplay for “The Outrun” with Amy Liptrot, who ...

An alcoholic (Saoirse Ronan) returns home to Scotland's Orkney Islands and achieves sobriety in nature's solitude.

I feel just really proud that my story has added something to the tapestry of Orkney and the culture of the islands,” she ...

The crashing of waves, the somber recrimination of chilly charcoal clouds: for the young woman at the center of this story, ...

Saoirse Ronan stars as an alcoholic woman in recovery in "The Outrun." Credit: StudioCanal Have you ever felt so alienated ...

Part rehab memoir, part travelogue about the wildlife and crashing waves of the Orkneys, Amy Liptrot’s 2016 book The Outrun ...

In the recently released indie comedy “My Old Ass,” the heroine has a little brother who has a pop culture crush on the ...

You can’t help but admire the ambitious approach director Nora Fingscheidt has taken in adapting “The Outrun,” the ...

Singular actor glows as a student returning to her childhood home, on a windswept island off Scotland, to protect her ...

The Outrun’ stars a powerful, poignant Saoirse Ronan as a young woman who heads to the remote islands on which she grew up to battle her personal demons.

By David Sexton Amy Liptrot’s memoir, The Outrun – about recovering from the alcoholism that took over her life in London in her twenties by returning to the Orkneys where she had grown up and ...