From the get-go the protagonist of this YA bestseller adap about terminally ill teens assures us this story is a not a sugar-coated Hollywood fable where everything can be fixed. “I like that version as much as the next girl does,” voiceovers 16-year-old Hazel (Shailene Woodley). “It’s just not the …
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Matt King’s life is in meltdown. No surprises there – after all, he’s the protagonist of an Alexander Payne movie. Think back to high school teacher Jim McAllister (Matthew Broderick) in Election , so possessed with antipathy (and a sneaky hint of lust) for Reese Witherspoon’s overachieving Tracy Flick that …
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