The Fault in Our Stars (film)

The Fault in Our Stars is a 2014 American romantic drama film directed by Josh Boone, based on the novel of the same name by John Green. The film stars Shailene Woodley, Ansel Elgort, and Nat Wolff, with Laura Dern, Sam Trammell, and Willem Dafoe playing supporting roles. Woodley plays Hazel Grace Lancaster, a sixteenyearold cancer patient who is forced by her parents to attend a support group, where she subsequently meets and falls in love with Augustus Waters, another cancer patient, played by Elgort.

Hazel Grace Lancaster Shailene Woodley is an intelligent and witty teenager living in Indianapolis, who has terminal thyroid cancer that has since spread to her lungs. Believing she is depressed, Hazels mother Frannie Laura Dern urges her to attend a weekly cancer patient support group to help her make friends who are going through the same thing.One week, Hazel meets Augustus Waters Ansel Elgort, a charming teenager who lost a leg from bone cancer years earlier but has since been cancerfree. He invites Hazel to his house and she accepts, where they bond over their hobbies and agree to read each others favourite book. Hazel recommends An Imperial Affliction, a novel about a cancerstricken girl named Anna that parallels Hazels experience, and Augustus gives Hazel Counter Insurgence. They keep in touch via text over the weeks that follow and grow closer. After Augustus finishes the book, he expresses frustration with its abrupt ending it ends in the middle of a sentence. Hazel explains that the novels mysterious author, Peter Van Houten Willem Dafoe, retreated to Amsterdam following the novels publication and has not been heard from since. ........

Source: Wikipedia