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Stephen King adaptation The Life of Chuck wins Toronto film festival award
Audience award, typically handed to film that goes on to enjoy Oscar success, was won by Tom Hiddleston-led drama
The Tom Hiddleston-led drama The Life of Chuck is the surprise winner of this year’s Toronto film festival audience award. The Daily Beast’s Nick Schager wrote that it was “as sweet as it is scary” while, in comparing it with Flanagan’s more horror-heavy King adaptations, the Hollywood Reporter’s Michael Rechtshaffen claimed that it “makes for an oddball if less ideal fit”. The first runner-up was Emilia Pérez, the Jacques Audiard-directed crime musical comedy that premiered to acclaim at this year’s Cannes film festival where it picked up best actress awards for its three stars Zoe Saldaña, Karla Sofía Gascón and Selena Gomez.
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