The Fault In Our Stars is a 2014 coming of age romance directed by Josh Boone, based off the 2012 John Green novel of the same name. The Fault in our Stars in the story of Hazel Grace Lancaster played by Shailene Woodley. We meet Hazel as a teenager living with thyroid cancer that has spread to her lungs. Hazel’s parents, Fannie and Michael Lancaster played by Laura Dern and Sam Trammell convince Hazel to take part in a weekly cancer patient support group. Although she is not thrilled, Hazel attends those meetings and meets Augustus Waters ‘Gus’ played by Ansel Elgort. Gus had lost his leg to bone cancer, he and Hazel immediately hit it off… and this begins our story of The Fault in Our Stars.