WATCH PARTY: The Outrun (2024) dir. Nora Fingscheidt @ Mary Pretlow Library

We’ll be in the big room, Meeting Room 2. I was wanting to see this last year but missed it in theaters.

RATED: R for language and brief sexuality

RUNTIME: 118 minutes

SYNOPSIS: After living life on the edge in London, Rona attempts to come to terms with her troubled past. She returns to the wild beauty of Scotland's Orkney Islands where she grew up, hoping to heal. Adapted from the bestselling memoir by Amy Liptrot.

BLURBS:
"An inspired surprise: a portrait of addiction and recovery both visceral and lyrical, reflective and electric." - Danny Leigh, Financial Times

"Is that really Saoirse Ronan playing a blackout drunk with a violent temper? It is and against all odds she transforms a dreary addiction drama with an emotional powerhouse of a performance that should rank her high in the Oscar race for Best Actress." - Peter Travers, *ABCNews.com*

"Ronan is no ordinary actress, and she makes 'The Outrun,' which occasionally veers near overdone territory, into a thing of beauty and hard-won joy." - Alissa Wilkinson, The New York Times