Augustus, who lost a foot to cancer-related surgery, naturally sees past Hazel’s predicament and falls for her, while her conflicted parents (Laura Dern and Sam Trammell) watch from a curious distance. The ensuing plot is a relatively straightforward process of soul-searching that finds Hazel yearning for a trip to Amsterdam in order to meet the author of a novel she admires. With Augustus and Hazel’s parents’ help, she eventually makes the trip and discovers the reclusive scribe (Willem Dafoe) in a disgruntled, inebriated state. No surprise, then, that the solace the dying woman seeks comes from the true love she consummates over the course of her travels. This rather obvious device unfolds with a fair amount of predictability, but “The Fault in Our Stars” constantly resists overdramatizing the mounting sadness that eventually overtakes the picture. The movie works hard to make you cry, but its gradual manipulation is too lighthearted to justify much contempt. Boone gives the story a self-aware quality in Hazel’s believable embodiment of teenage angst: “The Fault in Our Stars” only turns into a sob story once she decides to let it go there by confronting her deepest fears.
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