The Fault in Our Stars was a touching teen drama about a young couple with cancer

Rating: 9/10 (6 June 2014)

Just watched this with my movie theatre-working friend. We both were touched by the story of a couple of young adults, Hazel (Shailene Woodley) and Gus (Ansel Elgort), both of whom have cancer, and their eventual love affair. One thing they bonded over was a novel about another character with their disease which got them to take a trip to Holland to meet the book's author, Van Houten (Willem Dafoe). I'll stop there and just say there's plenty of touching moments between the couple but also some funny scenes and lines to offset some of the sadness. I also liked Laura Dern as Hazel's mother and Gus' friend Isaac (Nat Wolff). Really, both me and my friend enjoyed this enough so on that note, I highly recommend The Fault in Our Stars.