Cert: 12A
Director: Josh Boone
Screen writer: Scott Neustadter , Michael H. Weber
Based on a book by: John Green
Starring: Shailene Woodley , Ansel Elgort , Nat Wolff , Laura Dern , Sam Trammell , Willem Dafoe , Lotte Verbeek , Ana Dela Cruz , Randy Kovitz , Toni Saladna , David Whalen , Milica Govich , Allegra Carpenter , Emily Peachey , Emily Bach , Tim Hartman , Mike Birbiglia , Jean Brassard , Carly Otte , Lily Kenna .
Running time: 126 min
Parents advised to read before viewing film as some scene may contain scenes unsuitable for younger viewers.
Sex & Nudity: A teen boy and a teen girl kiss in the attic of the Anne Frank Museum and tourists applaud; the two teens walk to his apartment, sit on his bed and kiss again as she unbuttons his shirt to reveal his full bare chest and he takes off her T-shirt; seen from the back, she removes her bra and we see the top of her hips (his hands appear to cover her breasts and the camera cuts away) and we see the two later as the camera pans from the foot to the head of the bed, showing the teen boy's bared chest as well as the girl's bare back (sex is implied).
A teen boy says that his girlfriend is smoking hot and in the parking lot later he kisses the teen girl several times and squeezes her breast with his hand over her shirt once.
A teen boy tells a teen girl that he is a virgin; he draws a picture of the circle of virgins with only himself inside it and she laughs.
A teen girl watches movies featuring brief scenes of a man and a woman kissing or sitting in separate bathtubs filled with bubbles and talking on the phone (only their arms show).
A woman walks out of a bathroom wearing a large towel and we see her bare shoulders.
A woman wears a short dress.
Violence & Gore: A teen boy calls a teen girl at night from a gas station and begs for help; she drives there and finds him unable to move from his driver's seat and when he raises his shirt we see a large red infected area around a chemotherapy port; he cries and coughs up yellow and red phlegm as she calls 911 and EMTs load him into an ambulance with flashing lights (we do not see him as a patient, but when he comes home, he needs a wheelchair and the girl pushes him in it in a few scenes).
An 18-year old ex-basketball player is in remission from his osteosarcoma, but had lost one leg from the knee, down; we see the artificial limb several times and once the boy shows it to a man and says, "I didn't have this (leg) removed for the hell of it."
Video clips of WWII German wagons filled with dead bodies under tarps play in a display (we see some feet) in the Anne Frank House museum.
A teen boy and a teen girl go to his house where they meet his parents and descend some stairs that make her breathe heavily and on the wall is a sign with silhouettes of a cow and a car hitting head-on.
Profanity: At least 1 F-word, 8 scatological terms, 5 anatomical terms, 15 mild obscenities, 2 religious profanities (GD.)
Name-calling (weird, crazy, loser, failure, monster, mean, evil, sick kids, drunk, douche-pants and stupid.)
Stereotypical references to physicians, teenagers, children with cancer, parents, support group leaders, Americans, Christians, temperamental authors, alcoholics, fickle girlfriends and virgins and exclamations (Oh gosh.)
Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking: A teen girl asks her parents for a fake ID so that she can "buy a gimlet and take pot" and they laugh.
A teen girl with cancer takes eight prescription drugs three times per day and we see her swallow pills twice with water.
A physician says that she will prescribe Zoloft for a teen girl with cancer.
A teen boy and a teen girl drink champagne at a restaurant.
A teen boy and a teen girl drink champagne on a picnic.
We see glasses of wine on several tables in a restaurant and we see two men drink from their glasses.
A man drinks Scotch and soda and two bottles of Scotch are seen on his mantle.
A man drinks from a flask of alcohol twice at a graveside funeral.
An 18-year-old boy carries an unlit cigarette in his mouth in several scenes while visiting friends and at home as well as while driving and riding in a car and standing on a sidewalk and on an airplane (a flight attendant on the plane makes him put the cigarette away.)
A young man says that the cigarette he carries in his mouth is a metaphor for taking the deadly things into your teeth and not letting them harm you.
A teen girl takes a cigarette from a teen boy's mouth and places it between her teeth.
A teen girl wears a T-shirt with a picture of a tobacco pipe on it.
Frightening/Intense Scenes: The overall theme of the film is a little heavy: disability, cancer, death, etc. But it is dealt with in such a way that it's suitable for young adults.
Story: Hazel and Gus are two teenagers who share an acerbic wit, a disdain for the conventional, and a love that sweeps them on a journey. Their relationship is all the more miraculous given that Hazel's other constant companion is an oxygen tank, Gus jokes about his prosthetic leg, and they met and fell in love at a cancer support group
Likes : wow this film is just beautiful made, the direction and cinematography is fantastic. Not a single shot felt odd or out of place. Every shot matched the scene and felt real. The editing was also great as shot after shot matched with the characters faces and where they were (typical good movie editing stuff).
The acting perhaps was one of the best aspects of this movie. Seriously it makes the two characters feel real and alive, and at times I forgot this was fiction and not based on a true story. Their performances were so heartfelt and definitely Oscar worthy in my opinion.
From Scene to scene this movie just manages to suck me into this beautiful world of Hazel Grace Lancaster played by the beautiful Shailene Woodley and Augustus Waters played by Ansel Elsort . The chemistry between them is astounding and the performances were outstanding to bring what is the most heart breaking film your see this year.
From the beginning of the film you get to see the characters develop & see their story unfold, alot of this film is based on cancer so for those that have had or lost someone to cancer this film will bring back memories, there is a few moment at the beginning that makes it light hearted with some funny jokes & one liners but this film throws a curve ball by the end of the film your balling your eye out in tears, (yes it had me in tears, yes there is nothing wrong with a man crying, it take a real man to show feelings it show heart).
This is possibly the most heart breaking film this year, a love story with a unhappy ending that is so beautiful haunting that love is eternal,just show's its heart breaking when you loss someone you love with all your heart that make you a person this film really shows this well.
In my opinion i normal watch fast action type film but every now & then i like to watch these types of film's because it put life into perspective that life is to short, if you find true love like this in this film hold on to it because it could be the last moment you get the chance to be happy with someone.This is a film i recommend to everyone with a heart, because i promise you by the end of this film you will be in tears.
Dislikes : Nothing wrong with this film.
Overall : Heart-breaking story, Beautiful romantic theme, Outstanding performance's, a must to see.
Rating: 5 out of 5 for entertainment / 10 out of 10 for story-line / Romantic theme
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