Another lung collapse that lands Hazel back in the hospital postpones the trip, but hope perseveres, and the big middle section of the film centers on the weekend in Amsterdam, where their idol turns out to be a seedy, rude, hostile and unpleasant man in a rage, swigging scotch in his dirty pajamas while driving them away in anger and despair. Her family can’t afford to send her, but Gus has saved enough money to fly them both across the Atlantic. Her dream is to travel to Amsterdam to meet Peter Van Houten, a philosophical Dutch writer whose books have influenced her profoundly. They do peculiar things because they’re unusual people. Their attitudes and values may differ, but romance is inescapable. Hazel drags around an oxygen tank, and Gus is hampered by a prosthetic leg, but they almost instantly discover a kinship forged from a no-shit philosophy and an admirably shared sense of cockeyed humor that jazzes up their outlook on life where medicine has failed. Worn out by surgery, needles, anti-depressants, sympathy, parental indulgence and eight prescription drugs three times per day, Hazel Grace Lancaster (magical, riveting Shailene Woodley) meets strapping, optimistic Augustus Waters (Ansel Elgot) in a cancer support group. There’s a lot of religious inspiration in the film I could do without, but the characters seem as real as inhaling. Starring: Shailene Woodley, Ansel Elgort and Nat WolffĪ large portion of intelligence is due to the original author, who based his observations about the courage and offbeat humor of the terminally ill on his experiences as a chaplain in a children’s hospital. Written by: Scott Neustadter and Michael H.
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