The Life of Chuck has earned its rightful spot as winner of the Toronto International Film Festival’s 2024 People’s Choice Award.

Based on Stephen King’s not-at-all-scary short story, the one-note movie starring Tom Hiddleston unfolds backwards in three soupy parts, and is narrated by Nick Offerman like a lumberjack Dr.

The Life of Chuck is a perfect marriage of Mike Flanagan and Stephen King's talents, but not in the way you might expect.

The TIFF People's Choice Award is usually a bellwether to the Oscars, but this year the prize reflects rather more deep-seated global concerns among the voters than just the race to Best Picture. Based on the short story of the same name by Stephen King - one of the four in his 2020 novella If

In this photo supplied by the Mobile Film Office, a scene from "The Life of Chuck" is being filmed on Dauphin Street in downtown Mobile, Ala. Notice the banner on the light post, a prop from the film. The movie premiered Sept. 6, 2024, at the Toronto International Film Festival. Photo by Dan Anderson. Dan Anderson | Mobile Film Office

“ The Life of Chuck ,” a feel-good apocalyptic story starring Tom Hiddleston and directed by Mike Flanagan, took home the Toronto International Film Festival’s people’s choice award.

The Toronto Film Festival's audience winner has gone on to receive an Oscar Best Picture nomination for the last 12 years in a row

The Toronto International Film Festival's People's Choice Award went to “The Life of Chuck,” handing Mike Flanagan's Stephen King adaptation one of the most-watched prizes of the fall film festival circuit.