In The Outrun, everyone is trying to lose themselves in something greater than themselves. For Rona, played by Saoirse Ronan, it's alcohol, at least to begin with. For her mother, it's Christianity, and for her father, who oscillates between episodes of mania and depression, it's sheep farming, letting himself become part of the ecosystem of the remote Orkney islands off the coast of Scotland.
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