The Life of Chuck (2025)

The clearest answer to anyone who thinks King only writes horror. Mike Flanagan, who had already directed Gerald's Game and Doctor Sleep, adapts the novella from If It Bleeds and tells one ordinary man's life backward in three acts, back to the boyhood in which his grandmother teaches him the joy of dancing. Tom Hiddleston leads a cast that includes Chiwetel Ejiofor, Karen Gillan and Mark Hamill, with Nick Offerman narrating. It won the People's Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2024 before reaching theaters in 2025. Bring tissues: it is about mortality, but the feeling it leaves is gratitude.