![]() ![]() Nayyar is at home in the role of a sad, lonely intellectual. ![]() ![]() The film cruises along when Canosa keeps the focus on Nayyar and Hale, who are both excellent in their roles. “… an alcoholic widower who falls in love with the beautiful Amy, a supplier of sorts for his bookstore…” The addition of supporting characters played by Christina Hendricks and David Arquette, among others, provides the set-up for a relatively successful drama. However, his life is permanently altered when a tragic set of circumstances thrust a toddler under his care. He’s an alcoholic widower who falls in love with the beautiful Amy (Lucy Hale), a supplier of sorts for his bookstore on an idyllic, fictional island off of Massachusetts. It’s a quaint tale of love and loss featuring the cantankerous bibliophile A.J. ![]() Fikry, director Hans Canosa’s adaptation of the popular novel by Gabrielle Zevinn (who also wrote the screenplay). This is thankfully the case with The Storied Life of A.J. But every now and then, we’re surprised by an adaptation that actually delivers a modicum of accomplishment. We’ve been burned too many times before by cheap adaptations of popular novels destined to find their way to the Hallmark channel – or worse, receiving the dreaded scarlet letter “N” and going straight to streaming as a Netflix original. Even the most objective, self-respecting critic would be challenged to go into The Storied Life of A.J. ![]()
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