![]() ![]() After shooing her and the browsers away, he retreats home for the evening, takes a few bites from what appears to be an unappetizing TV dinner, gets drunk, and falls blearily asleep while gazing at his one true treasure-a first edition copy of Edgar Allan Poe’s “Tamerlane”-which he intends to sell, retiring on the proceeds.īut when he awakens the book is gone, and soon after heįinds the child, a girl named Maya, on the floor of his shop. He treats potential customers with disdain, and is surly and dismissive toward Amy (Lucy Hale), the rep who travels from the mainland to pitch a memoir in which an old man reminisces about his marriage after his wife’s death. Fikry” is as cluttered with characters and subplots as Fikry’sįikry (Kunal Nayyar) is introduced as an irascible, sarcastic fellow whose store on Alice Island, off the Massachusetts coast, has gone to seed after the death of his wife. ![]() ![]() That scenario would suffice for most movies, but “The Storied ![]() On screen, a lesson that’s made evident by this tale of a morose widowedīookseller whose passion for life is resurrected when he adopts a toddler who’sīeen abandoned in his shop and finds romance with a young, charming publisher’s What works on the printed page can’t always be replicated Jordyn McIntosh, Lizzy Brooks, Joe Penczak, David Arquette and Scott Foley Distributor: Canosa, Kelsey Law, Brian Keady and Gabrielle Zevin Director:Ĭhristina Hendricks, Blaire Brown, Lauren Stamile, Charlotte Thanh Theresin, ![]()
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