Teenage – A Phase with the best of childhood and adulthood. Hazel and Augustus have more than their teenage in common. From their unusual encounter at a support group to a fully bloomed smashing romance, their love story dotted with few fairy-tale-ups like trip to Amsterdam and many real-life-downs like cancer and death is both exciting and heart breaking. The story from the eyes of Hazel is more than a teenage infatuation.
Language:
English
Running Time:
126 min
Rating:
PG-13
Release date:
4 July 2014
Directed by:
Josh Boone
Produced by:
Wyck Godfrey
Marty Bowen
Written by:
Scott Neustadter
Michael H. Weber
Starring:
Shailene Woodley
Ansel Elgort
Nat Wolff
Laura Dern
Sam Trammell
Willem Dafoe
Music by:
Mike Mogis
Nate Walcott
Shot by:
Ben Richardson
Editing by:
Robb Sullivan
Distributed by:
20th Century Fox

What’s Hot

  • The gorgeous Shailene Woodley comes across as a sulking depressed teenager initially whose encounter with Augustus unlocks her witty, beautiful and sensuous side. On the other end, the ever so magnetic Augustus played by Ansel Elgort would make women hold their breath with his infectious smile. Audience would be so hooked to this sight filling glitzy-so-perfect pair who exude an aura enough to shoulder the movie.
  • Love has never been so easy to portray on-screen. With heavy weight emotions like anger, grief and sadness bringing the ultra-low, Josh Boone has succeeded in making the slightest hint of positivity appear huge and aptly so. The switch in the emotions of the two protagonists as the story unravels is fluid as water.
  • If the director, actor and cinematography are the three pillars of box-office, the balancing pillar comes in the form of screenplay preventing the movie to tip over to the wrong side of cash register. The screenplay has the right punctuations and pauses for the characters thereby etching them into the memory of audience.

What’s Not

  • The supporting cast has done their best by underplaying their parts and letting the lead pair hog the limelight. Though it seems justifiable under few circumstances, it is a thorough waste of labor sometimes. For example, the parents of Augustus appear to be mere money lending, wish granting genies rather than parents.
  • The logic of letting Augustus travel, that too with all horns blaring, when he is sick is just difficult to digest. The lucidity of the script comes under the questioning microscope with slips like these.

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Verdict

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A beautiful adaptation of the novel which proves yet again that a simple-honest story can be so engrossing, refreshing and successful.