A dry-eyed tear jerker for this viewer; nary a tear was shed and that truly is sad.

Rating: 6/10 (8 June 2014)

THE FAULT IN OUR STARS (2014) **1/2 Shailene Woodley, Ansel Elgort, Nat Wolff, Laura Dern, Sam Trammell, Willem Dafoe, Lotte Verbeek, Mike Birbiglia. Woodley and Elgort star as teenagers with cancer who meet in a support group, make friends fast and fall in love in this somewhat predictable and flat-footed adaptation based on the best-selling novel by John Green (surprising since the writing team of Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber has usually yielded far-better results in past productions) and clumsily directed by Josh Boone. Admittedly I have not read the source material yet having said that this film in no way makes me eager to seek it out as a 'must read sensation' no thanks to some pretentious, teeth-grinding dialogue and Elgort's way-too-look-on-the-brightside-smug/jerky Romeo to the otherwise well-portrayed Woodley's Juliet. A dry-eyed tear jerker for this viewer; nary a tear was shed and that truly is sad.