The Fault in our Stars
2014
**
Director: Josh Boone
Cast: Shailene Woodley, Ansel Elgort, Laura Dern, Sam Trammell, Nat Wolff, Willem Dafoe, Lotte Verbeek, Mike Birbiglia
Hazel's thyroid cancer has spread to her lungs and Gus has lost his leg to osteosarcoma. As Hazel falls into depression, Gus deals with the situation with a devil-may-care attitude. These two teenagers meet in a support group and gradually fall in love. In this 21st century Love Story, both of the star-crossed lovers are seriously ill. This set-up should provide plenty of material for a moving tragic romance, but this derivative film left me cold, perhaps because everything feels so inevitable. Shailene Woodley is very good, but Elgort lost me in the first few seconds with his annoyingly flippant performance. Adapted from John Green's 2012 novel
