At the behest of her mother Frannie (Laura Dern), father Michael (Sam Trammell), and her doctor Maria (Ana Dela Cruz), she attends a cancer support group at a church called the Literal Heart of Jesus. Hazel suffers from stage 4 thyroid cancer and is always seen carrying an oxygen tank with a cannula in her nose for her to breathe.

She states that she believes we're allowed to choose how to tell sad stories, and that although one can sugarcoat it and say there's nothing that can't be fixed with a Peter Gabriel song, it's not the truth. Chinese fans are very protective of the movie, but similarities, down to the colors of the poster, are undeniable.A teenage girl named Hazel Grace Lancaster (Shailene Woodley) is lying in the grass staring up at the stars. There has been no lawsuit, but people on both sides have been left very confused. Popular Chinese movie gossip site, Douban, did a detailed rundown of the similarities between both those movies. though there hasn't been much competition. That's good enough for the best in the globe for 2021. The film was directed by Han Yan and opened to $80.3 million. The Chinese box office is back in a big way thanks to contact tracing, and a movie called A Little Red Flower. It's a romantic drama about two young people who are battling cancer. The producers made a push to get it there but came up empty-handed.įast-forward to 2021. It was a massive hit that played all over the world, except China. On a budget of only $10 million, the movie shocked everyone and returned a box office of over $300 million. Turns out our theater was not an outlier. It was the first time I cried in public, but I wasn't embarrassed, because everyone was crying. I saw The Fault in Our Stars at The Grove on opening weekend with a few friends and had no idea what it was going to be about.

but how can you stop a major movie from stealing your ideas?

The fault in our stars movie coming out