Their relationship is my biggest gripe among many with the chaste way director Hans Canosa lets the story play out. Over the same timeframe he falls for Amelia (Lucy Hale), a publishing rep who regularly makes the trip to Alice Island to suggest new books he has no interest in stocking. Impulsively, he adopts the child, though to keep that from being too weird there’s a quick cut to “14 months later” when the paperwork is complete.
Her husband (Scott Foley) suggests he set it on fire.įikry’s life takes a turn for the bizarre when a 25-month-old girl is left in his bookshop by a mysterious single mother. His sister-in-law (Christina Hendricks) says he might have tossed it in the ocean. Local cop Nick Lambiase (David Arquette) doesn’t have any leads, and Fikry’s acquaintances aren’t much help either.
, worth a medium-sized fortune, which goes missing during one of his drunken blackouts. But he’s a recent widower so I guess he gets a pass for being such a miserable SOB.įikry’s prized possession is an original copy of Edgar Allan Poe’s Fikry has little time for customers and doesn’t even seem to like books very much. ) stars in the title role as a grumpy, alcoholic bookshop owner on the quaint (and fictional) Alice Island, Mass. At best, it feels like a tired remake of aĬondensed book. , but the filmed version does not play out like an adaptation of a novel. I have not read Gabrielle Zevin’s popular 2014 book
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