When I was very young, I was told there are only 3 ages…child,
adult and dying. Director Josh Boone’s The
Fault In Our Stars bears this out with its main characters, 17-year-old
Hazel Grace (Shailene Woodley) and 18-year-old Gus (Ansel Elgort), both dying
of cancer.
They and others in their support group think and act in
ways far different than their contemporaries. And, when Writers Scott Neustadter and
Michael H. Weber are on, which is most of the time, we get to experience the different
world of the dying, yet noble, teens.
Nat Woolf as the blind youth Isaac, Laura
Dern as Grace’s mother and Lotte Verbeek as Lidewij, the kindly secretary of the
teens’ favorite novelist Van Houten (Willem Dafoe) add to the excellent
performances of Woodley and Elgort.
Though Director Boone and Cinematographer Ben
Richardson are on most of the time, as well, I was expecting even more from
this film. After all, one could have a hit with the amazing Shailene Woodley reading from the phone book.
Nevertheless, I give The Fault In Our Stars a 4 out of
5.
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