![]() After his group therapy meet cute with Hazel, where the 19-year-old reveals that cancer forced doctors to amputate his leg, Gus goes full court press to win over his new object of affection. ![]() Elgort plays Gus like a mix of James Bond and Ferris Bueller, a bad boy clown with all the right answers and a heart of gold. Fault in Our Stars undercuts its sensitive material with contrived romance. ![]() ![]() When life throws her a devastating curveball, we feel her shatter. Woodley is an imperfect gem in Fault in Our Stars. Her shy confidence makes dialogue sound off the cuff. Out of her mouth, bits of narration could be genuine diary entries. She can crawl out of bed with an oxygen tank in tow, the ramifications of her disease literally weighing her down, and lumber downstairs for toast, tea, and morning chit chat with Ma (Laura Dern) and Pa (True Blood's Sam Trammell). Woodley's the perfect actress to to match with Green's material. Even teenagers at risk of keeling over without warning can live complex, emotional lives. It's a movie that refuses to reduce its characters to patients biding time until death. 500 Days of Summer writers Scott Neustadter and Michael Weber and director Josh Boone indulge in whimsical fluff only to burn it down with grief. Fault's not a corny high school movie, but it's still dream-fulfillment with a GED. Cancer survivor Gus (Ansel Elgort) disrupts Hazel's malaise with an intoxicating carpe diem attitude. Instead of surviving high school, Hazel struggles with lung and thyroid cancer. Based on the acclaimed novel by John Green, The Fault in Our Stars evades teen romance tropes to embrace more mature conventions.
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