Anne Frank's house was not used for the scenes in the house, only the entrance was used.

The film was shot in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Amsterdam. Her response seems over the top, but it's not for the parent of a child, chronically and terminally ill.įans of the novel will recognize that for the most part, the movie is true to the novel. Just as an example, when Hazel receives an email and calls her mother, her mom tears into her bedroom, fearing the worst. But this movie also manages to capture some of the heartbreak, the terror and the pain that goes with cancer. The chemistry between Woodley and Elgort is surprisingly effective their relationships comes across as warm, funny and romantic - very believable. But each of these actor's performances are also exceptional. Shailene Woodley gives an emotionally riveting performance as Hazel and is well supported by Elgort as Gus, by Laura Dern as Frannie and Sam Trammell as Michael, Hazel's warm, supportive parents. Hazel begins to realize that this is the only life they get and they have to make the most of it, whatever it might be. The trip to Amsterdam while not providing the answers they were hoping for, results in Hazel and Gus falling in love. However, a remarkable life will not be Gus's destiny. All this does not matter to Gus, who believes he is destined to live a remarkable life. But Hazel doesn't want Gus to love her because she feels she is like a grenade, about to explode and obliterate everyone's life with her eventual death.

Hazel is shocked to learn that Gus's emails to the author, Peter Van Houten are returned and they are invited to come to Amsterdam to meet him and to talk about the book.ĭuring the time that they have read the novel, made arrangements to travel to Amsterdam and are in the midst of supporting their friend, Isaac who loses both his remaining eye to cancer and his girlfriend, Gus finds himself falling in love with Hazel. When Gus reads a novel, The Imperial Affliction, that Hazel gives him, he becomes determined to learn what really happened to the characters after the book's hanging ending. Dispensing with conventional views about young people with cancer, they are determined to live and love despite the life they've been handed.

Shailene Woodley stars as Hazel Grace Lancaster and Ansel Elgort as Augustus Waters, two star-crossed teens who both have cancer and who meet at a cancer support group. The movie adaptation of John Green's blockbuster novel of the same name, will leave theatre-goers and fans of The Fault In Our Stars, weepy but overall, very satisfied.

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