Based on the best-selling book by John Green, this movie attempts to pull at our heartstrings and teach us a lesson on living a fulfilling life.
Shailene Woodley, who came to the attention of movie watchers from the critically acclaimed movie, The Descendants and also the teenage dystopian film, Divergent, stars as the protagonist, Hazel Lancaster. Hazel has metastatic lung cancer and meets Augustus Waters in a cancer support group. They story follows their journey through friendship and love. The film realistically portrays cancer patients, different ways parents deal with their children with cancer and peer relationships between cancer patients and non-cancer patients.
Augustus' friend Isaac is more predominant in the book and is missed in the movie but the focus is on Hazel and Augustus.
Hazel and Augustus bond over the book An Imperial Affliction by Peter Van Houten. Augustus uses his "make-a-wish" wish to allow them to travel to Amsterdam to visit Peter and find out what happened after the final page.
This reviewer has had the good fortune to be able to travel to Amsterdam and also share a birthday with fellow writer, Anne Frank. Those scenes were amazing to watch on screen after experiencing them in person.
I give this movie one large thumb up pointing to all the stars in the sky helping us realize as Shakespeare said "The fault...is not in our stars, but in ourselves."
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