10 Things I Hate About You
10 Things I Hate About You is a 1999 American teen romantic comedy film directed by Gil Junger in his film directorial debut and starring Julia Stiles, Heath Ledger, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Larisa Oleynik. The screenplay by Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith is a modernization of William Shakespeare's comedy The Taming of the Shrew, retold in a late-1990s American high school setting. The film follows new student Cameron James (Gordon-Levitt) who is smitten with Bianca Stratford (Oleynik) and attempts to get bad boy Patrick Verona (Ledger) to date her antisocial sister Kat (Stiles) in order to get around her father's strict rules on dating. Named after a poem Kat writes about her romance with Patrick, the film was mostly shot in the Seattle metropolitan area, with many scenes filmed at Stadium High School in Tacoma, Washington.
Plot
Cameron James, a new student at Padua High School in the Seattle area, immediately becomes smitten with beautiful and popular sophomore Bianca Stratford. Geeky Michael Eckman warns him that she is vapid and conceited, and that her overprotective single father Walter, an obstetrician worried about teenage pregnancy, does not allow her or her shrewish older sister Kat, a senior, to date. Kat is accepted to Sarah Lawrence College in New York, but Walter wants her to stay close to home and attend his alma mater, the University of Washington. Bianca wishes to date affluent senior Joey Donner, but Walter will not allow his daughters to date until they graduate. Frustrated by Bianca's insistence and Kat's rebelliousness, Walter relents and declares that Bianca may date only when Kat does, knowing that Kat's antisocial attitude will greatly complicate it.
Cast
- Aaron Therol
- Aidan Kennedy
- Alice Evans
- Allison Janney
- Andrew Keegan
- Ari Karczag
- Benjamin Laurence
- Bianca Kajlich
- Brian Hood
- Brian Mashburn
- Cameron Fraser
- Carlos Lacámara
- Daryl Mitchell
- David Krumholtz
- David Leisure
- Demegio Kimbrough
- Dennis Mosley
- Eric Reidman
- Gabrielle Union
- Greg Jackson
- Heath Ledger
- Heather Taylor
- J. R. Johnson
- Jelani Quinn
- Jesper Inglis
- Jesse Dyer
- Joseph Gordon-Levitt
- Joshua Thorpe
- Julia Stiles
- Kay Hanley
- Kyle Cease
- Larisa Oleynik
- Larry Miller
- Laura Kenny
- Lindsey Shaw
- Michael Eisenstein
- Monique Powell
- Nick Brown
- Nick Vukelic
- Quinn Maixner
- Susan May Pratt
- Terence Heuston
- Todd Butler
- Travis Muller
- Wendy Gottlieb
More details
| author | Karen McCullah Kirsten Smith |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Seattle Washington |
| director | Gil Junger |
| editor | O. Nicholas Brown |
| genre | comedy romance social |
| keywords | bad boy can\'t take my eyes off you date dump fender stratocaster frankie valli geek marching band new student obstetrician older sister patrick verona peer pressure petruchio sarah lawrence college single father sneak out sonnet 141 teenage pregnancy university of washington wash william shakespeare |
| musicBy | Richard Gibbs |
| producer | Andrew Lazar |
| productionCompany | 20th Century Studios Hulu Touchstone Pictures |
| publisher | Buena Vista Pictures Distribution |
| recordedAt | Seattle Stadium High School |
| theme | feminist high school romantic comedy teen teen romance |