gets drunk and loses a rare, valuable book written by Edgar Allan Poe. Lamenting the death of his wife one night, A.J. Then Amelia disappears and a different storyline starts. Fikry (Kunal Nayyar), the cranky proprietor who isn't interested in stocking the book she's promoting. The film begins with publisher's rep Amelia (Lucy Hale) arriving by ferry on quaint Alice Island. She needed help whipping her story into something with a little life. What works on the page doesn't necessarily work the same way in a film. Gabrielle Zevin wrote the screenplay based on her own best-selling novel, doing herself no favors in the process. I didn't care about anyone in it, nor did I care what happened to them because it's all so terminally boring. Watching it is an exercise in frustration because it absolutely refuses to create anything even remotely resembling dramatic tension. Fikry is one of the most exasperating movies I've ever seen.
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