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Strength comes in different forms, and two new films with Irish actress Saoirse Ronan tell the tale. In Steve McQueen’s high-octane World War II drama “Blitz,” set in an embattled London, Ronan is Rita, a single mother searching for her young son who’s disappeared from a train ostensibly taking children to safety in the British countryside. As bombs fall and subway stations flood, Rita is just about the fiercest thing in London, abandoning the bomb factory where she works to find her boy at all costs.

In Nora Fingscheidt’s “The Outrun,” on the other hand, her character of Rona is an alcoholic who summons up the power to fight her demons by turning to the solitude of a remote island off the coast of Scotland.

“I’m delighted that they’ve come out when they have, especially because I have been away for a while,” said Ronan,...

Saoirse Ronan said alcoholism was a subject she “was always threatening to explore.” When she found Amy Liptrot’s book The Outrun, she decided to also make her producorial debut in developing it.

“Alcoholism for me was like the monster in the corner that I hadn’t dealt with for a very long time,” Ronan said. “It caused me a lot of pain and resentment and confusion in the way that it does for a loved one of an addict, in particular an alcoholic because so much of it happens in quite an intimate space. So I had been on the receiving end of that and could see how it can really destroy lives.”

Liptrot’s book was autobiographical. Ronan and director Nora Fingscheidt mutually agreed to change Ronan’s character’s name to Rona so that she would have more creative freedom. More on that soon, but first Ronan...

Saoirse Ronan is opening up about wanting to see more flawed female characters represented onscreen after working on The Outrun.

The Irish actress’ career has been packed with angsty yet relatable roles for young women in films like Lady Bird, Little Women and Brooklyn. Before turning 30, she received four Oscar nominations. Ronan recently spoke with Elle and revealed what it was like to play Rona, a complex character, who’s struggling to get sober in The Outrun.

“I was so ready for it. I felt confident enough in my ability, but also confident enough in who I was,” she said. “I didn’t feel like I was being held down by a need to only play likable people.”

Ronan recalled seeing traits in other characters onscreen that helped her draw inspiration. “I really responded to Lena Dunham’s characters in Girls, who are arseholes sometimes, but we’ve all got the capability for that.

Saoirse Ronan started in the industry at a pretty young age and immediately won the hearts of the masses. After dedicating so much of her life to movies and her fans, she is now 30, flirty and thriving, and just wants to relax a bit.

Saoirse Ronan as Rona in ‘The Outrun.’ Image: Yunus Roy Imer. Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics.

Recently married, she wanted to enjoy a sort of semi-retirement or vacation one might say. The only thing that would pull her out of this break? An offer from Steve McQueen. And so it did!

Saoirse Ronan Almost Went on a Semi-Retirement if Not for Steve McQueen

Saoirse Ronan was knee-deep in a whirlwind schedule in 2022, juggling a three-month shoot in Australia for Garth Davis’ Foe and a six-month stretch on The Outrun lined up right after. With a workload like that, she joked that unless Steve McQueen himself came calling,...

Nora Fingscheidt’s The Outrun is a screen adaptation of Amy Liptrot’s memoir which recounts the horrors of alcoholism in the same breath as it recounts the tonic powers of nature in beating that same evil. We are met with Rona, a young biology student, who is figuring out her life sans alcohol and in solitude. To mend her London-bred ills, Rona alights on her native place, Orkney Island, to explore the swathes of natural history and in doing so touch the open-ended strings of her personal life.

The fluid flow of time and space helps to render the film the texture of a memoir which interrelates and interfuses the protagonist’s previous life as an alcoholic and current life as a conservationist. In doing so, the personal memoir of the protagonist dances on a tightrope over an area that also makes enough space for a nature documentary.

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2024’s The Outrun is this year’s great performance of a recovering alcoholic that inevitably deserves an Oscar nomination. Saoirse Ronan’s The Outrun tells the story of Rona, a 29-year-old alcoholic on her road to recovery after some terrible events traumatizing her for life. The non-chronological film might occasionally be a bit hard to take in, but at the end of the day, it’s a beautiful tale of hope and growth. To understand Rona’s experiences, the best way to understand her mind would be to go about the film as chronologically as possible. It’s the hair color that you’ve got to pay attention to. Rona grew up on a small, isolated island in Orkney, Scotland. A farm girl by birth, Rona’s an intelligent woman who easily grasps information. Her life begins to sparkle after she becomes addicted to alcohol and has outbursts while studying biology in London,...

Whilst the eyes of the world may be locked firmly on the other side of the Atlantic this morning, back here in Blighty there is at least some positivity still to be shared yet. Having shone last year when the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes brought Hollywood to a standstill, the independent British cinema scene has continued to shine throughout 2024, with revered greats, rising stars, returning masters, and bold new narratives all emerging to ensure the flame for indies from these shores has never burned brighter. As such, it comes as no great surprise that the announcement of this year's British Independent Film Awards nominees is a veritable treasure trove of great art and great artists that stand to represent the very best British filmmaking has to offer.

Leading the pack with an impressive 14 nominations — including nods for Best British Independent Film, Director, Screenplay, and Debut Director — is British-Irish filmmaker Rich Peppiatt...

The Best Actress Oscar race is looking more and more crowded as we get closer to the 2025 awards season, with numerous significant contenders in the running for those five slots. But if there’s one performance that’s surely going to make it in, it’s Saoirse Ronan in “The Outrun,” directed by Nora Fingscheidt. Why? Here are the Top 5 reasons …

1. Previous Oscar nominee.

At only 30 years old, Ronan has already received four Oscar nominations, and thus an acclaimed dramatic performance in her latest film will put her on the radar for many academy members. Her first nomination arrived in the Best Supporting Actress category for “Atonement” (2007) and then she was nominated in Best Actress for “Brooklyn” (2015), “Lady Bird” (2017), and “Little Women” (2019). Receiving as many Oscar noms as she has in such a short period of time shows that the academy is inclined to consider any new Ronan performance, and...

Every year, there is a film that stands out from the rest. It isn’t occupied with fancy visual effects, grand stories, or even a showcase of artlike qualities. While these elements find their way into the film in subtle ways, ‘The Outrun’ (2024) manages to include an experimental structure, subdued character development, and a plethora of symbolic value with a story of addiction and the never ending struggle of trying with all heart to end it. A story that many people, especially women, will find relatability in. Helmed by rising director Nora Fingscheidt and acclaimed actress Saoirse Ronan in the lead role, ‘The Outrun’ manages to be the film of 2024 that so far succeeds in being artistic and stimulating while also a contemplative into the darker parts of life. Things to do: Subscribe to The Hollywood Insider’s YouTube Channel, by clicking here. Limited Time Offer – Free Subscription to The...

Imagine standing in a seaweed field, battered by wind, kissed by the ocean, surrounded by an overpowering quiet. Now, place yourself at its center. That’s what Nora Fingscheidt’s “The Outrun” evokes: an intimate and intimidating isolation where memories swell, hijacking your thoughts, with the sound of the ocean crashing against the wind as your only companion.

When Amy Liptrot (journalist by profession and co-writer of this script) penned her memoir, I doubt she anticipated how deeply her experiences of addiction, recovery, and self-reflection would reverberate into something so achingly cinematic. She likely understood, though, that her birthplace, Orkney, is one of the most visually striking landscapes yet underutilized in cinema.

Orkney—a remote archipelago of some 70 islands in the northernmost reaches of Scotland—is home to rare wildlife and even scarcer human life. It’s here that Rona (Liptrot’s on-screen counterpart) returns to recover from years of alcoholism.

Saoirse Ronan just dropped a truth bomb about Greta Gerwig’s upcoming Chronicles of Narnia, and honestly? We’re a little worried. While Gerwig’s magic touch turned Little Women into cinematic gold and Barbie into a worldwide sensation, stepping into Narnia’s enchanted world might be a different beast. Ronan, who’s no stranger to working with Gerwig, hinted at challenges that could test even the most skilled director. And let’s face it, Narnia fans are notoriously protective of their beloved land of talking animals and epic battles.

Saoirse Ronan as Rona in ‘The Outrun.’ | Credits: Sony Pictures Classics

Could this adaptation meet expectations or miss the mark? Ronan’s candid confession has us on edge, wondering if this fairy-tale reboot might face more obstacles than we’d hoped. Fingers crossed!

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There’s an easy, cliched way to sound design drunkenness. According to re-recording mixer Gregor Bonse, the film convention for conveying any sort of drug trip or inebriation is a step-and-repeat pattern of putting big reverb effects on key sounds and dialogue so that the scene in question feels unreal and detached; the sound tells us, loudly and obviously, that the characters are out of their minds. The approach can be great fun in a stoner comedy but can also put distance between the characters and the audience.

However, the pleasure and pain of Nora Fingscheidt’s film “The Outrun” is to stay — fearlessly, relentlessly, achingly — in the subjectivity of one-time biology PhD student Rona (Saoirse Ronan) as she struggles with alcohol addiction and finding a direction for her life. The film’s sound design, accordingly, doesn’t make easy delineations between sober and not, wounded or healed; even the sounds of Orkney and London,...

Writer/director Nora Fingscheidt creates a searing, honest, but ultimately redemptive in “The Outrun.” Based on Amy Liptrot’s 2016 memoir (Liptrot also co-wrote the script), Oscar-nominee Saoirse Ronan stars as Rona, a young woman battling alcoholism who finds solace in the Orkney Islands in Scotland. It’s how nature helped Rona get her groove back. In this

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Saoirse Ronan “really fell in love with how Amy [Liptrot] wrote about her home, how poetically she described her memory of growing up in the Orkney Islands, and balanced that so beautifully and so effectively with the raw honesty of her struggle with addiction.” That’s what attracted her to “The Outrun” as both an actor and producer. Watch our complete video interview with Ronan above.

“The Outrun” follows Rona, a fictionalized version of author Liptrot, as she returns home to Orkney in northern Scotland after living for a tumultuous decade in London. The scenes in Orkney were shot on location, and “when you’re outdoors and you’re either working on a farm or you’re at the side of a cliff by the ocean, the elements have such an impact on your sense of self, your energy, how alert and open you are to your surroundings … It was almost like a scene partner.

As written, the question was meant to be open-ended: “How do you the find emotional truth in a character?” If there’s any connective thread between the various roles in Saoirse Ronan’s impressive body of work, it’s that: some ineffable honesty about the emotional journey she’s carrying through her characters.

Fortunately, Ronan is astute enough and open enough to wrestle with such a question with grace and insight. That’s probably why she’s such a good actress.

“How do you breathe?,” Ronan responded with a laugh when asked about said emotional truth during a recent sitdown with IndieWire. “It sounds a bit pretentious to say, but I have grown up disappearing into the make-believe, and that helps me make sense out of the real world. The fact that I was an only child and I spent a lot of time on my own in my head,...

Actor and producer Jack Lowden sat down to discuss his new film The Outrun, starring his wife Saoirse Ronan, in his new uInterview.

The Outrun follows biology student Rona, who lives in London and she finds her life spiraling out of control as she grapples with alcohol abuse. The movie is based on the 2016 memoir of the same name by Amy Liptrot.

Lowden recalled his and Ronan’s initial attraction to the story. “It was very coincidental,” he told uInterview founder Erik Meers. “It was a book that I read that then [Ronan] read, and we both thought, ‘We should try and do something with this.'”

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He explained, “We weren’t looking to make something together at that point, it was born of pure circumstance; we both fell in love with the book...

A popular anime empire and a beloved manga both hit screens in North America this weekend, with The Outrun starring Saoirse Ronan, five actors playing surrealist artist Salvador Dali, and a trio of thought provoking docs new on the specialty circuit this weekend.

Also noting Columbia Pictures’ Saturday Night from Jason Reitman, which rocked its opening last week, expands in NY and LA and adds ten new markets for 21 locations total before going wide Oct. 11. The film, based on the true story of what happened behind the scenes in the 90 minutes leading up to the first broadcast of Saturday Night Live in 1975, debuted to $270k at five theaters in NY/LA for a terrific $54k per theater average.

Moderate releases: Sony Pictures Classics’ Saoirse Ronan-starring and Nora Fingscheidt-directed drama The Outrun hits 508 screens. After a decade away in London, 29-year-old Rona (Ronan) returns home to the Orkney Islands. Sober but lonely,...

Saoirse Ronan dropped a nice little tidbit about her time as a young actor that would have caused a lot of worlds to collide in the eyes of young viewers. The actress revealed that she had auditioned for a particular part in one of the hottest franchises at the time, but lost out to another actress for the role.

Saoirse Ronan in Little Women || Creidt: Sony Pictures

Saoirse Ronan revealed on an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live that the actress submitted herself for consideration for a role in the Harry Potter franchise, but eventually lost it. The actress could have starred with Emma Watson in the film, which would have put these two acting heavyweights in an already masterful collaboration way before Little Women did.

Saoirse Ronan auditioned for the role of Luna Lovegood Evanna Lynch as Luna Lovegood || Credit: WB

Evanna Lynch essayed the role of Luna Lovegood to perfection,...

Every movie alcoholic lets you ride shotgun with them to their rock bottom, and the low point that Saoirse Ronan’s character — her name is Rona — hits headfirst in The Outrun is a high-impact one. When we first meet her, she’s being thrown out of a pub in London, having stayed long past closing time and even longer past her welcome. She’s coquettishly crawling under tables and on top of the bar, downing whatever half-drunk pints are left from previous patrons. When the bouncer tries to escort her to the door,...

Saoirse Ronan as Rona in The Outrun. Image: Natalie Seery. Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics

Saoirse Ronan stars as a woman from Scotland’s remote Orkney Islands is forced to return home when her alcoholism implodes both her career as a marine biologist and her personal life, in the moving, true story-inspired The Outrun. Based on Amy Liptrot’s bestselling memoir, The Outrun tells the story of 29-year-old Rona’s (Ronan) as her life at college in London transforms from a promising one full of new freedoms, to a spiraling struggle with alcoholism. Forced back home to the Orkney Islands, Rona struggles with new found sobriety and regrets, as she also copes with her separated parents, a bipolar farmer father and a cold, religious mother, plus the social isolation and loneliness of life on a sparsely inhabited, remote island.

Saoirse Ronan gives one of her best performances here, and is on screen,...

Saoirse Ronan is one of the most acclaimed actresses working today, having earned four Oscar nominations by the time she turned 30. Well, it seems likely that she will obtain her fifth nomination in 2025, as the alcoholism drama The Outrun allows her to give one of the finest performances of her career yet. Apart from Ronan’s stunning turn and the film’s beautiful visuals, The Outrun could prove to be somewhat off-putting to audiences with its low-key, restrained approach to its themes and story.

The Outrun Review

Based on the book by Amy Liptrot (who also co-wrote the screenplay), The Outrun follows a thirty-year-old woman struggling with her sobriety as she seeks refuge in her home in the Oakley Islands to escape the troubles of her life in London. Although this may seem like a familiar premise, The Outrun strips down the tropes of the story into something much more raw.

Saorise Ronan is stepping out to promote her new movie!

The 30-year-old actress posed for photos as she attended a special screening of her new movie The Outrun hosted by Sony Pictures Classics & The Cinema Society on Monday (Sept. 30) held at the Crosby Street Hotel in New York City.

For the screening, Saoirse donned a black, red, and white plaid dress.

Based on Amy Liptrot‘s memoir of the same name, The Outrun follows a young woman named Rona who has recently been released from rehab for her alcoholism. As she returns home to the Orkney Islands in Scotland, she attempts to heal herself in the place that she grew up.

The Outrun comes to theaters on October 4 and has already received rave reviews for Saoirse‘s performance.

Saoirse is also garnering a lot of Oscars buzz for another new movie she has coming out soon!

Fyi: Saoirse is wearing Hodakova.

Heart-wrenching story adapted from Amy Liptrot’s memoir is as tough as its Orkney landscapes

The title means an outlying coastal piece of farmland on Orkney; it is not suitable for cultivation, but so continually windswept with Atlantic spray that its grass stays short as if naturally tended, and so functions metaphorically in various ways. It could be a wholesome, bracing, healing place for troubled city dwellers; or a place whose restorative quality is an illusion, a place every bit as violent and mysteriously destructive as the city; or it could even somehow stand for the actual person who has come there, the low-functioning addict, shaped and flattened by forces all but impossible to outrun.

Saoirse Ronan is outstanding in this painful, involving addiction-recovery drama, directed by Nora Fingscheidt and adapted by Fingscheidt and Amy Liptrot from Liptrot’s own 2017 memoir of the same title and co-produced by Ronan with her husband Jack Lowden.

Actress Saoirse Ronan has been in the television industry for a while now and has done some amazing work. But out of the lot, she’s primarily known for her involvement in the period drama genre. However, the most noteworthy project in this would be 2018’s Mary Queen of Scots. In this historical drama, she featured alongside Margot Robbie and also worked with her now husband, Jack Lowden.

Saoirse Ronan via The Late Late Show | Credits: YouTube

It was the duo’s first project together, and almost immediately, sparks flew between them. And now, after six years of being together, the duo has recently tied the knot. In this article, we will dive deeper into how they met as well as their professional endeavors.

All You Need to Know About Saoirse Ronan’s Husband Jack Lowden Jack Lowden via BBC | Credits: YouTube

British actor Jack Lowden was born in Chelmsford,...

After ten years away, Rona (Saoirse Ronan) returns to the rugged, remote Orkney Islands, seeking to rebuild her life after years of alcoholism.

The Outrun, directed by Nora Fingscheidt, is a quiet yet emotionally resonant adaptation of Amy Liptrot’s 2016 memoir by the same name. It’s a meditative, introspective film that captures the struggle for sobriety and self-discovery amid the stark beauty of the Scottish islands.

Rona, having fled her troubled past in London, finds herself reconnected to the wild, elemental landscapes of her childhood on the isles of Orkney. Rona’s story unfolds in non-linear fragments, with flashbacks guiding the viewer between her chaotic downfall in London and her early steps toward sobriety on her father’s sheep farm.

Her father (Stephen Dillane), who has long struggled with manic highs and depressive lows, is a source of deep-seated trauma that Rona has numbed with alcohol and self-destructive behaviour for years.

Is there any young actor on a par with Saoirse Ronan? She seamlessly inhabits every role, from her breakout as precocious 13-year-old Briony in Atonement to her spirited take on Jo March in Little Women. It’s no wonder she bagged four Oscar nominations before turning 30. To the surprise of nobody, she astonishes again in this flawed but engaging fictionalised adaptation of a memoir by Amy Liptrot, as Rona, a young woman on the long, painful path to sobriety.

In a magical opening sequence, director Nora Fingscheidt takes us beneath the waves of Orkney, a cluster of islands off the coast of Scotland. The sea is a vivid aquamarine, with curious seals peeping through forests of green and brown weed, while Rona recounts the myth of the selkie, creatures that transform from humans to seals. We then find Rona herself, dancing at an East London party. The scenes fuse, with Rona now dancing underwater,...

Saoirse Ronan is gearing up for a fierce Oscar season, with two performances poised to battle for the industry’s top honors.

Variety confirms Ronan will compete in both the lead actress race for the Sundance hit “The Outrun” and supporting actress for her upcoming work in the World War II epic “Blitz” — potentially setting her up as a double acting nominee this awards season. If double-nominated, which is currently projected on Variety Awards Circuit’s predictions, she would be the 13th person and youngest actor to receive two acting nominations in the same year. Seven of the 12 previous actors went on to win for one of their nominated works.

Read: You can see all Academy Award predictions in all 23 categories on one page on the Variety Awards Circuit: Oscars.

Blitz

In “Blitz,” which is set to debut as the opening film at the BFI London Film Festival, Ronan plays Rita,...

Gold Derby can now report that Saoirse Ronan is officially making an awards move long expected. The four-time Oscar nominee will campaign as Best Supporting Actress for “Blitz,” avoiding a possible vote split with her other big contender of “The Outrun,” which has her as Best Actress.

From Apple Original Films, “Blitz” has yet to me seen by major critics or festival crowds but is one of this year’s hottest contenders from past Oscar champ Steve McQueen. It will debut at the BFI London Film Festival on October 9. Its theatrical opening is a month later on November 1. And then it’ll be on Apple TV+ starting on November 22.

For this movie, Ronan plays the distraught mother of a young boy (Elliott Heffernan) who goes on a perilous adventure during World War II. It co-stars Harris Dickinson and is written, directed and produced by McQueen. View the trailer below:

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“The Outrun”, directed by Nora Fingscheidt, is a new dramatic feature, based on the novel by Amy Liptrot, starring Saoirse Ronan, Paapa Essiedu, Nabil Elouahabi, Izuka Hoyle, Lauren Lyle, Saskia Reeves and Stephen Dillane, opening October 4, 2024 in theaters:

“…’Rona’, a woman out of rehab for alcoholism travels to the Orkney Islands. The personal trip becomes one of self-discovery as she grapples with her addiction. After more than a decade of living life on the edge in London, where she both found and lost love, Rona – now 30 – attempts to come to terms with her troubled past.

“As she reconnects with the dramatic landscape where she grew up, memories of her traumatic childhood merge with more recent challenging events that have set her on the path to recovery…”

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A young woman sits on the beach in Orkney, the sea stretching out endlessly in front of her, a pair of headphones strapped to her ears, blaring electronic beats. We see this image repeated a couple of times in Nora Fingscheidt’s The Outrun and, in many ways, it represents the whole of the film—a conflict between the new and the old, the noise and motion of the modern world and space and stillness of the old. And then there’s the woman caught between these two converging currents, trying not to be pulled apart by them.

Rona (Saoirse Ronan) is a recovering alcoholic who’s returned to her familial home in Orkney after spinning out of control as a biology student in London. The story flows seamlessly back and forth between this newly sober chapter of her life and flashes of her time in London. At first, it...

Saoirse Ronan is already getting Oscar buzz for her work in The Outrun and she just hit the red carpet for the film’s world premiere!

The 30-year-old actress took to the red carpet at the Edinburgh International Festival on Thursday (August 15) in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Also on the red carpet were director Nora Fingscheidt and screenplay co-writer Amy Liptrot.

Based on Liptrot‘s memoir of the same name, The Outrun follows a young woman named Rona who has recently been released from rehab for her alcoholism. As she returns home to the Orkney Islands in Scotland, she attempts to heal herself in the place that she grew up.

The Outrun comes to theaters on October 4 and has already received rave reviews for Saoirse‘s performance. Don’t miss it!

Fyi: Saoirse is wearing a Louis Vuitton dress and shoes.

"But there is only so much height any wave can sustain, before it comes crashing down." Sony Pictures Classics has revealed the official US trailer for The Outrun, which premiered at both the 2024 Sundance & Berlin Film Festivals earlier this year. It's the exact same trailer as the UK trailer from before but with new quotes. This acclaimed film is based on Amy Liptrot's memoir, the story of an alcoholic woman who returns to her homeland - the remote Orkney Islands located off the northern coast of Scotland at the very top of the UK. After living life on the edge in London, Rona attempts to come to terms with her past. She returns to the wild beauty of Orkney (where she grew up) hoping to heal. Starring Saoirse Ronan as Rona in one of her best performances yet. The Outrun is a searingly honest drama about addiction, survival and...

After a relatively quiet last few years, Saoirse Ronan is returning in a major way this fall, leading two new features: first up, Nora Fingscheidt’s Sundance highlight The Outrun followed by Steve McQueen’s Blitz. The former is set for an October 4 release from Sony Pictures Classics and now the new trailer has arrived.

Here’s the synopsis: “After a decade away in London, 29-year-old Rona (Saoirse Ronan) 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. Based on the bestselling memoir by Amy Liptrot, who co-wrote the screenplay with Fingscheidt, The Outrun is an acutely honest drama about addiction and recovery.

We’ve seen an endless number of films about addiction and recovery over the years, but The Outrun promises something a little different. That’s mostly because The Outrun has Saoirse Ronan in it, but come on… it’s four-time Oscar nominee Saoirse Ronan we’re talking about here. She...

Many films discuss how a partnership or relationship could be ruined if one of the partners is emotionally unavailable and toxic. It only adds to our understanding of how a relationship should be, it should not affect anyone to the point that it causes trauma to either partner. Tyler Perry’s Divorce in the Black is one such movie that discusses a woman trying hard to stay in a marriage with her husband, but she eventually chooses to walk out.

Spoilers Ahead

What happened at the church?

Divorce in the Black begins in a church where Ava and Dallas’ family attend the funeral mass of Dallas’ brother, who died in a shootout. Ava’s father, Clarence, was the pastor during his sermon and began to admonish the boy who died, which offended Dallas’ mother, who was feeling aggrieved. Dallas’ mother created a whole scene in the church and tried to defend all her sons,...

Ava is such a special character in Tyler Perry’s Divorce in the Black. Ava is a devoted wife, a responsible daughter, and a true friend. Ava always sees the good in people, especially in her toxic husband, Dallas, even though it hurts her the most. You can’t help but feel bad for her. But what’s amazing is how Ava changes her life for the better. She realizes she deserves more and takes steps to improve her life, which makes you admire her strength. Despite her sweet and generous nature, she ends up killing Dallas. Why did she do it? Let’s explore Ava’s character in the film to find the answer.

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Why did Ava divorce her husband?

Ava had always imagined having a happy married life from a young age because she saw how much her parents loved each other. Her father, Clarence, was a church priest,...

Tyler Perry is no stranger to pushing boundaries with melodrama. The acclaimed director and writer has tackled controversial topics through popular films and TV shows targeting African American audiences for decades. His latest offering, Divorce in the Black, saw Perry team up with streaming giant Amazon Prime, reuniting frequent collaborators Meagan Good and Cory Hardrict in the lead roles.

The movie centers on Good’s character Ava, trapped in an abusive marriage to Hardrict’s troubled character Dallas. When Dallas abruptly asks for a divorce, Ava returns home to the supportive embrace of her religious family in rural Georgia as she picks up the pieces. From this premise rich with dramatic potential, viewers expected Perry’s signature blend of raw emotion, social commentary, and wild plot twists.

Unfortunately, Divorce in the Black largely fails to deliver. While Good and co-stars like Richard Lawson and Taylor Polidore Williams give their all,...

Tyler Perry’s Divorce in the Black gives us a raw look at how some people endure a lot of pain in their marriages, ignore all the red flags, and go through hell just to stay with their partner. It’s more intense than you might think. Ava, the main character, goes through this exact nightmare with her toxic husband, Dallas. Their relationship eventually ends in a divorce. But the big question is: can Ava really escape him, or will he continue to haunt her even after the divorce? Thankfully, Ava isn’t alone. She’s got a wonderful support system, from her parents to her friends, who stick by her side through thick and thin. This movie not only shows the dark side of toxic relationships but also highlights the importance of having good, supportive people in your life. So, let’s get to know more about the cast...

“The Outrun”, directed by Nora Fingscheidt, is a new dramatic feature, based on the novel by Amy Liptrot, starring Saoirse Ronan, Paapa Essiedu, Nabil Elouahabi, Izuka Hoyle, Lauren Lyle, Saskia Reeves and Stephen Dillane, opening October 4, 2024 in theaters:

“…’Rona’, a woman out of rehab for alcoholism travels to the Orkney Islands. The personal trip becomes one of self-discovery as she grapples with her addiction. After more than a decade of living life on the edge in London, where she both found and lost love, Rona – now 30 – attempts to come to terms with her troubled past.

“As she reconnects with the dramatic landscape where she grew up, memories of her traumatic childhood merge with more recent challenging events that have set her on the path to recovery…”

Click the images to enlarge…...

There are good movies that, in detail, discuss the dynamics of a married couple that have been in a relationship for a long time. It goes into detail about the challenges they face as a long-term couple. The trials and tribulations are what make or break them. Blue Valentine, Revolutionary Road, and Marriage Story are some of the finest examples of how filmmakers can portray the intimacy shared by a couple who are on the verge of breaking up. Actor/Director Tyler Perry’s new directorial venture on Amazon Prime Video, Divorce in the Black, is probably the antithesis of what the above-mentioned movies represent. Released on the streaming platform on July 11, 2024, the movie captures the unstable relationship between Ava and her husband, Dallas.

Ava is a successful banker and has been married to Dallas for many years. Dallas comes from a family of criminals and has an emotionally abusive...

Four-time Academy Award nominee Saoirse Ronan is back in the Best Actress race this year with “The Outrun,” an addiction drama from director Nora Fingscheidt (“The Unforgivable”). The film will soon be coming to a theater near you, as Sony Pictures Classics has picked it up for distribution and given it a fall release date in partnership with Stage 6 Films.

“The Outrun” is based on a memoir by Amy Liptrot, who co-wrote the screenplay with Fingscheidt. Ronan plays Rona, a young Scottish woman who gets out of rehab for alcoholism and returns home to the remote Orkney Islands resolving to deal with her addiction once and for all. The cast includes Paapa Essiedu, Nabil Elouahabi, Stephen Dillane, and Saskia Reeves.

“‘The Outrun’ is a stunning movie, beautifully directed by Nora Fingscheidt with a career-best performance from Saoirse Ronan. It is a privilege to bring this accomplished and moving drama to audiences everywhere this fall,...

Sony Pictures Classics has revealed plans to release “The Outrun” in theaters across North America on Oct. 4, in partnership with Stage 6 Films.

The drama, directed by Nora Fingscheidt, features a cast led by Saoirse Ronan, alongside Paapa Essiedu, Stephen Dillane and Saskia Reeves.

Based on Amy Liptrot’s bestselling memoir, with a screenplay co-written by Liptrot and Fingscheidt, the film explores themes of addiction and recovery. The story follows Rona (Ronan), a 29-year-old returning to the Orkney Islands after a decade in London, as she navigates sobriety and confronts her past.

The film played at Sundance and Berlin and Ronan’s performance earned her the top acting prize at the Biarritz Nouvelles Vagues Festival.

“The Outrun” is presented by Stage 6 Films and produced by BBC Film, Screen Scotland and Mbk Productions, in collaboration with Brock Media and Arcade Pictures. Weydemann Bros and Studiocanal serve as co-producers. The film is produced by Sarah Brocklehurst,...

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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It wasn’t long ago that IndieWire predicted Saoirse Ronan could be headed for yet another Best Actress Oscar nomination for her stellar work in the Sundance darling “The Outrun.” But that was only if the movie, which we said was one of the buzziest sales titles out of the festival, actually found a buyer.

Now Ronan will be in the thick of it as Sony Pictures Classics and Stage 6 Films have teamed up to release “The Outrun” in North American theaters on October 4 later this year.

Nora Fingscheidt (“System Crasher”) directed “The Outrun,” which first premiered to strong reviews at Sundance and has already toured other festivals such as Berlin and Biarritz Nouvelles Vagues Festival, where Ronan won the top acting prize.

“The Outrun” is based on a celebrated memoir by Amy Liptrot and is a heavy drama about alcoholism, addiction, and recovery. Ronan in the film is not...

Sometimes, when watching a movie like Tyler Perry’s Divorce in the Black, you grade them on a curve. This depends on the aspirations of the filmmaker(s) and the intended audience. After all, can you grade pornography in the same way you would evaluate Citizen Kane? Before you mock my point, remember that Roger Ebert used to review them, ensuring Russ Meyer received his due.

This brings us to another entry from the uber-successful filmmaker Tyler Perry. To put it politely, his latest film, Tyler Perry’s Divorce in the Black, has something for everyone. The truth, however, is that the movie is wildly uneven. Perry’s script morphs from a thoughtful story about a woman dealing with divorce into Sleeping with the Enemy territory.

Cory Hardrict and Meagan Good in Prime Video’s Tyler Perry’s Divorce in the Black | Image via Amazon Studios.

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Tyler Perry’s been making waves through his productions, and the latest one after Netflix’s Mea Culpa is Divorce in the Black. The film follows 37-year-old Ava, who has been putting up with her husband Dallas’ shenanigans for many years. They went against their parents’ wishes and got married, and Ava fought hard to try to prove that Dallas was a good man, and the perfect man for her. However, Dallas has never been good to Ava. In fact, it seems she keeps putting up with him because she knows that his family treated him badly and that he’s the way he is because of some sort of traumatic incident. Ava’s father is a preacher, and her mother is a pious woman, while on the other hand, Dallas’ mom is not particularly interested in the church or Ava’s father’s preachings. The film begins at Dallas’ brother’s funeral,...

“The Outrun”, directed by Nora Fingscheidt, is a new dramatic feature, based on the novel by Amy Liptrot, starring Saoirse Ronan, Paapa Essiedu, Nabil Elouahabi, Izuka Hoyle, Lauren Lyle, Saskia Reeves and Stephen Dillane, opening internationally September 27, 2024 in theaters:

“…’Rona’, a woman out of rehab for alcoholism travels to the Orkney Islands. The personal trip becomes one of self-discovery as she grapples with her addiction. After more than a decade of living life on the edge in London, where she both found and lost love, Rona – now 30 – attempts to come to terms with her troubled past.

“As she reconnects with the dramatic landscape where she grew up, memories of her traumatic childhood merge with more recent challenging events that have set her on the path to recovery…”

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Saoirse Ronan is taking on one of her most intense roles yet.

After playing a haunting child with sociopathic tendencies in “Atonement,” the now-grownup A-lister leads Sundance breakout-indie “The Outrun,” based on Amy Liptrot’s bestselling memoir.

Ronan stars as Rona (a bit confusing), a young woman recovering from alcoholism. Rona returns to her remote home in the Orkney Islands after losing herself in London; there, she reconnects with her past, her parents, and the atmospheric isolation of the islands on which she grew up.

Nora Fingscheidt directs the highly-anticipated feature, which premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival. IndieWire critic David Ehrlich tweeted on Thursday, “So weird that this very good Saoirse Ronan drama still doesn’t have U.S. distribution! Not the easiest sell in the world, but she’s an absolute force in it.”

Ehrlich wrote in the review that Ronan is “the film’s most dizzying and mesmeric effect,...

StudioCanal has revealed the first look trailer of ‘The Outrun’ featuring Saoirse Ronan.

Adapted from the best-selling memoir of the same name by Amy Liptrot, the story focuses After a decade away in London, 29-year-old Rona (Saoirse Ronan) 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 beauty and lore of the land enter 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.

Directed by Nora Fingscheidt, the movie also stars Emmy nominee Paapa Essiedu, BAFTA winner Stephen Dillane and Saskia Reeves.

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The movie will be released in cinemas across the UK & Ireland on Friday 27 September 2024.

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Although peculiarly still without U.S. distribution some five months after its Sundance premiere, Nora Fingscheidt’s addiction drama The Outrun, starring Saoirse Ronan, will arrive in the UK this September. Ahead of the release, the first trailer has now arrived.

Here’s the synopsis: “Saoirse Ronan stars as Rona, who, fresh out of rehab, returns to the Orkney Islands; a place both wild and beautiful right off the Scottish coast. After more than a decade of living life on the edge in London, where she both found and lost love, Rona – now 30 – attempts to come to terms with her troubled past. As she reconnects with the dramatic landscape where she grew up, memories of her traumatic childhood merge with more recent challenging events that have set her on the path to recovery.”

Dan Mecca said in his review, “Maybe the smartest decision made in The Outrun, directed by Nora Fingscheidt,...