TIFF People’s Choice Award Winner ‘The Life Of Chuck’ Latest Indie To Test Box Office Revival With Neon Gifting Campaign – Specialty Preview

Don’t Be Surprised If The Life of Chuck Breaks You

It starts off as a disaster movie and features a marvelous dance sequence, but the Stephen King adaptation that Mike Flanagan’s deeply moving ‘The Life of Chuck’ most closely resembles is actually ‘The Shawshank Redemption.’

TIFF People’s Choice Award Winner ‘The Life Of Chuck’ Latest Indie To Test Box Office Revival With Neon Gifting Campaign – Specialty Preview

The box office has kicked into high great with a steady flow of films, studio and independent. It’s getting crowded and smaller distributors are hoping the rush will really and truly spill into indie and specialty fare. Signs are good with excellent numbers for Focus Features’ The Phoenician Scheme last weekend (the Wes Anderson film expands to 1,678 runs), for A24’s Friendship last month and Sony Pictures Classics Jane Austen Wrecked My Life. …

Where and When to Stream ‘The Life of Chuck’

Here's when and where 'The Life of Chuck' movie will stream after its June 6 theatrical release. Here's how to watch 'The Life of Chuck' online at home.

The Life of Chuck Works Too Hard For Its Warm Fuzzies

Stories about the meaning of life tend to work at cross-purposes with the job of actually living it, particularly when they pedal hard to activate the tear ducts. Mike Flanagan’s science-fiction life affirmer The Life of Chuck—adapted from a Stephen King novella—is an ambitious little film that has already earned some laurels: it was an audience favorite at last year’s Toronto International Film Festival, winning the People’s Choice Award. Thank…

Mike Flanagan on THE LIFE OF CHUCK: Dance, Death, and Defying Genre Expectations — GeekTyrant

Mike Flanagan is no stranger to horror. Over the past decade, he’s built a fiercely loyal fanbase through intimate, unsettling explorations of grief, trauma, and the supernatural, usually with a Stephen King book in one hand and a camera in the other. But his latest film, The Life of Chuck, is something else entirely. It’s still strange. It’s still King. But it’s also joyous, hopeful, and, packed with dancing.Speaking with Variety, Flanagan expl…

'The Life of Chuck' Review: It's a wonderful life, after all

Editor’s Note: This review originally ran as part of our coverage of the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival, and today we’re re-publishing it with the film’s wider release. Check out our extensive review slate of TIFF 2024, and revisit our official preview and complete archives of prior editions.  To get things started quickly, I’ll let you know that Mike Flanagan’s The Life of Chuck is the best feature film he’s directed since Gerald’s Ga…