They strike up a friendship that quickly escalates into something more as they wrestle with issues of fate and mortality. Woodley plays Hazel, the typical outgoing teen-next-door living a middle-class life in suburban Indiana - who has cancer and must travel with an oxygen tank wherever she goes.Īmong those destinations are youth-support group gatherings - where she meets newcomer Gus (Ansel Elgort, Divergent), who has lost a leg to his disease. Weber, and stars Woodley, who moved up to star status this year with Divergent.Īlso like Spectacular, Our Stars walks the fine line between moving and mawkish without falling too far over to the latter side.Īlthough the earlier film didn’t make a huge splash in the mainstream, Fault might become the teary alternative to the boom and bang of the summer superheroes. Our Stars is rooted in a popular young-adult novel, was written by Scott Neustadter and Michael H. This year, that movie is The Fault in Our Stars - which shares many attributes with its predecessor. It was based on a well-regarded best-seller and starred up-and-comer Shailene Woodley. Last summer, The Spectacular Now became the teen-trauma film of note.
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