Director : Josh Boone
Running Time : 134 mins
Hazel (Woodley) suffers from a debilitating form of cancer that means she has to constantly carry an oxygen tank around with her, but this hasn’t deterred her from enjoying her life. When she meets Gus (Elgort), a fellow teenage cancer sufferer, the two start a whirlwind romance that leads them to Amsterdam in search of their favourite author (Dafoe), a man who wrote the only believable book about dying from the illness they share.
This movie, which you just know from the outset is going to have a downbeat ending, manages to be fun as it progresses to its conclusion. The two leads work well together, with the supporting cast doing a decent job, and the script manages to garner a good few laughs, even with a subject that is instantly so sad. Fans of Woodley will love her in this, her best performance after The Spectacular Now, and relative newcomer Elgort is believably upbeat in spite of his diagnosis.
You’ll like this if you liked : If I Stay
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