The mall bookshop in which they hang out is the branch of Barnes & Noble in the famous Monroeville Mall, 200 Mall Circle Drive– famous because of being taken over by the no-longer-dead in George A Romero’s 1978 Dawn Of The Dead. Gus’s house is 300 Heritage Drive on the corner of Penhurst Drive, Wilkins Township just west of Monroeville Mall And, yes, his basement was filmed here too. Hazel lives with her loving and determinedly upbeat parents ( Laura Dern and Sam Trammell) at 821 11th Street in Oakmont, a few miles northeast of downtown Pittsburgh.

The church retains its real name, though its location is of course changed to 'Indiana'. Hazel Grace bumps into Gus at her cancer support group, held “literally in the heart of Jesus” in St Paul's Episcopal Church, 1066 Washington Road, Mount Lebanon, south of Pittsburgh.

The book is set in 'Indianapolis', but the film was made around Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and in the Netherlands capital, Amsterdam. To its credit, Josh Boone’s’s film of John Green’s YA novel largely avoids the sentimentality and the pitfalls of the ‘terminal romance’ genre as 17-year-old Hazel ( Shailene Woodley), living with a probably terminal cancer, bonds with and falls in love with 18-year-old Gus ( Ansel Elgort), who’s in recovery after living through a similar experience.

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