If you like feel-good, escapist films, this one's not for you. Their shared passion for books, common fears, and heartfelt talks make the two inseparable, until death comes knocking. In his company, she discovers there's a world beyond hospitals, medication, pain and cancer. He fears oblivion, while she believes it's inevitable.

When a practical Hazel (Shailene Woodley) meets the charming and cheerful Augustus Waters (Ansel Elgort) at a cancer support group, sparks fly. They don't need to tour Anne Frank's house for Hazel to get perilously winded while climbing stairs.The Fault in our stars Stays faithful to the book. Tracing backward from the wistful finale, Peter and in fact the entire Amsterdam trip reveal only what the plot could find elsewhere and less strenuously sentimental.

The character is such a jarring intrusion on what has been a saccharine romance that the movie nearly goes off the rails. Peter encourages them to visit then turns out to be a raving, insufferable alcoholic. Willem Dafoe shows up as Peter Van Houten, an author self-exiled in Amsterdam, whose book An Imperial Affliction is a source of inspiration for Hazel and conversation with her for Gus. She loans him her favorite book, leading to this silver-lined movie's lone antagonism. Gus has bone cancer that already cost him a leg but not a devil-may-care attitude that quickly charms Hazel. His name is Augustus 'Gus' Waters, played by a walking smile named Ansel Elgort. But she didn't lose her pithy sense of humor, which appeals to another member of her cancer support group. Hazel's thyroid cancer spread to her lungs, forcing her to tote a portable oxygen tank like a Calvary cross. None more than Hazel Grace Lancaster, played by Shailene Woodley with emphasis on the middle name. At the same time it poses as being cooler than that, with attractive teens wisecracking in the face of death, jetting overseas to ditch virginity and always, always knowing better than adults. The Fault in Our Stars is shameless, old-fashioned to the brink of cliche, in the way it coaxes those tears.

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