Hazel tells Gus her literary obsession is An Imperial Affliction, by Peter Van Houten (Willem Dafoe, superb), a recluse who ended his novel in midsentence and high-tailed it to Amsterdam. But the actors, under Boone’s astute direction, never hit the pedal on self-pity. Isaac has lost one eye to cancer, with the other likely to go.ĭepressing? You’d think. Gus is in group to support his buddy Isaac, played by Nat Wolff, so fine in Palo Alto and equally outstanding here. That is, until she meets Augustus Waters (Ansel Elgort, wonderful), a full-on charmer who is in remission since his osteosarcoma necessitated that one of his legs be removed from the kneedown. What makes Hazel puke more than chemo is her cancer support group. Woodley plays Hazel Grace Lancaster, a 16-year-old whose thyroid cancer forces her to wear tubes in her nose and drag around an oxygen tank. It’s a fresh, lively love story, brimming with humor and heartbreak, and lifted to the heights by Shailene Woodley, 22, a sublime actress with a résumé, from The Descendants to Divergent, that pretty much proves she’s incapable of making a false move on camera. Weber, of (500) Days of Summer, follows suit. And the film, directed by Josh Boone from a wittily nuanced script by Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Green made the wise choice to be funny in telling his sad story. It turns out The Fault in Our Stars isn’t total crap on the page or on the screen.
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Prejudging is easy when it comes to The Fault in Our Stars, the movie version of John Green’s 2012 young-adult bestseller about a present-day Romeo and Juliet, both starcrossed by the Big C.
E.A crappy cancer movie from a crappy cancer book. "John Green is one of the best writers alive." Jodi Picoult, bestselling author of My Sister's Keeper and Sing You Home " The Fault in Our Stars takes a spin on universal themes-Will I be loved? Will I be remembered? Will I leave a mark on this world?-by dramatically raising the stakes for the characters who are asking." Markus Zusak, bestselling and Printz Honor-winning author of The Book Thief
You laugh, you cry, and then you come back for more." "A novel of life and death and the people caught in between, The Fault in Our Stars is John Green at his best. Green's story of lovers who aren't so much star-crossed as star-cursed leans on literature's most durable assets: finely wrought language, beautifully drawn characters and a distinctive voice."
"You know, even as you begin the tale of their young romance, that the end will be 100 kinds of awful, not so much a vale as a brutal canyon of tears. "In its every aspect, this novel is a triumph." " shows us true love-two teenagers helping and accepting each other through the most humiliating physical and emotional ordeals-and it is far more romantic than any sunset on the beach." "John Green deftly mixes the profound and the quotidian in this tough, touching valentine to the human spirit." reminds you that sometimes when life feels like it's ending, it's actually just beginning." You will be thankful for the little infinity you spend inside this book." " voice is so compulsively readable that it defies categorization. , a Best Book selection and one of "5 Books Every Woman Needs to Read Before Her Next Birthday"
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But it isn't until she meets Augustus in a support group that she understands how to love or live fully." Sixteen-year-old Hazel faces terminal cancer with humor and pluck. "Because we all need to feel first love again. "A smarter, edgier Love Story for the Net Generation." "A story about two incandescent kids who will live a long time in the minds of the readers who come to know them." "This is a book that breaks your heart-not by wearing it down, but by making it bigger until it bursts." The Fault in Our Stars is a love story, one of the most genuine and moving ones in recent American fiction, but it's also an existential tragedy of tremendous intelligence and courage and sadness." - Lev Grossman, TIME Magazine CRITICAL ACCLAIM FOR THE FAULT IN OUR STARS
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