His only saving grace is a rare collection of poems by Edgar Allan Poe that he plans to sell for a significant sum however, it gets stolen one night. In addition to still grieving his wife's death from a few years ago, his store, Island Books, is seeing an exponential decline in sales. Fikry follows a bookstore owner (the titular Fikry) whose life hasn't turned out the way he had initially planned. Starring Kunal Nayyar, Lucy Hale, Christina Hendricks, and David Arquette, among others, The Storied Life of A.J. In fact, Canosa delivers an adequate adaptation of the original novel, incidentally written by Zevin as well, effectively bottling the key sensibilities that made her book the New York Times Bestseller that it was when it was published in 2015 and turning it into a deeply emotional portrait of life and love.
This isn't, of course, to say that the film by director Hans Canosa and writer Gabrielle Zevin is necessarily bad. Fikry is yet another case of the book being definitively better than the movie. As with many past book-to-film adaptations, The Storied Life of A.J.
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