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

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Based on a short story by Stephen King, Mike Flanagan’s The Life of Chuck begins as a disaster movie, though not the kind one might expect from a guy like King. Early on, we hear news of a magnitude 9.1 earthquake splintering off a huge chunk of California into the Pacific, just the latest in a series of worldwide calamities. But amid the worries about bridge collapses and floods and species extinction and famine, a teacher named Marty Anderson (Chiwetel Ejiofor) primarily...