Gus then surprises Hazel with tickets to Amsterdam, acquired from the Make-A-Wish Foundation. Van Houten explains that he is only willing to answer their questions in person. Weeks later, Gus tells Hazel he has tracked down Van Houten's assistant, Lidewij, and has corresponded with Van Houten via email. Its author, Peter Van Houten, retreated to Amsterdam following the novel's publication and has not been heard from since. Gus gives Hazel Counter Insurgence, while Hazel recommends An Imperial Affliction, a novel about a cancer-stricken girl named Anna that parallels her own experience, but has an abrupt ending. The two bond over their hobbies and agree to read each other's favorite books. There Hazel meets Augustus "Gus" Waters, who lost a leg to bone cancer but has since apparently been in remission. Believing she is depressed, her mother Frannie urges her to attend a weekly cancer patient support group. Hazel Grace Lancaster is a teenager, living in the suburbs of Indianapolis, who has thyroid cancer that has spread to her lungs. It was released on Blu-ray and DVD on September 16, 2014, and earned $42 million in total domestic video sales. The film was number one at the box office during its opening weekend and grossed $307 million worldwide against a budget of $12 million. The film received generally positive reviews from critics, with praise given to Woodley's and Elgort's performances and chemistry together, as well as the screenplay. The Fault in Our Stars had its world premiere at Seattle International Film Festival on May 16, 2014, and was released in the United States on June 6, 2014, by 20th Century Fox. Pittsburgh doubled for all of the scenes set in Indianapolis, Indiana, the novel's setting, as well as for some interior scenes set in Amsterdam. Principal photography began on August 26, 2013, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with a few additional days in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, before concluding on October 16, 2013. Woodley plays Hazel Grace Lancaster, a sixteen-year-old cancer patient forced by her parents to attend a support group, where she meets and subsequently falls in love with Augustus Waters, another cancer patient, played by Elgort.ĭevelopment began in January 2012 when Fox 2000, a division of 20th Century Fox, optioned the rights to adapt the novel into a feature film. The film stars Shailene Woodley and Ansel Elgort, with Laura Dern, Sam Trammell, Nat Wolff and Willem Dafoe in supporting roles. Even if some of the supporting cast come off as merely functional, the core of the tragedy comes to life in a moving and devastating way.The Fault in Our Stars is a 2014 American coming-of-age romance film directed by Josh Boone, based on John Green's 2012 novel of the same name. That’s part of the book’s inspiring touch. Though supported by Woodley’s subtle narration, ‘The Fault in Our Stars’ relentlessly wears its heart on its sleeve. It’s a welcome interlude where the reality of suffering is expanded to include bitterness, cynicism and even a political dimension when the lovers visit Anne Frank’s house. But the original story, faithfully honoured here, is bolder than its set-up implies: their shared love of a novel about a child with cancer leads the ailing couple from Indianapolis in the US to Amsterdam to meet the book’s reclusive author (Willem Dafoe). He puts his texting, vulnerable lovers front and centre, and even manages to coach Laura Dern, playing Hazel’s mother, away from her familiar smeary cry-face. The lion’s share of the credit should go to 35-year-old director Josh Boone (‘Stuck in Love’). Even as Hazel meets and falls for upbeat charmer Gus (Ansel Elgort, Woodley’s ‘Divergent’ co-star) in a kids cancer support group, there’s believable banter between them that redeems a long foreseen outcome, known to anyone who’s ever waded into the salty pool of movies like ‘Love Story’. Her effortless regular-girl charm turns oxygen-tank-carrying Hazel into a fully fleshed-out teenager. The film’s linchpin is actress Shailene Woodley (already the saviour of several iffy films, including ‘Divergent’).
It finds its own understated way to earn tears, and that’s a tricky thing to pull off given the material. This adaptation of John Green’s bestselling 2012 young adult novel about a teenage girl in love and living with cancer is far from the shameless emotional pummelling it might have been.
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