10 Things I Hate About You

Movie Details:

Cast & Characters:

• Julia Stiles as Katarina “Kat” Stratford
• Heath Ledger as Patrick Verona
• Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Cameron James
• Larisa Oleynik as Bianca Stratford
• Larry Miller as Walter Stratford
• Andrew Keegan as Joey Donner
• David Krumholtz as Michael Eckman
• Susan May Pratt as Mandella
• Daryl “Chill” Mitchell as Mr. Morgan
• Allison Janney as Ms. Perky
• David Leisure as Mr. Chapin
• Gabrielle Union as Chastity Church
• Greg Jackson as “Scurvy”
• Kyle Cease as Bogey Lowenstein
• The band Letters to Cleo (singer Kay Hanley, guitarists Greg McKenna and Michael Eisenstein, bassist Scott Riebling, and drummer Jason Sutter) appears as the band performing at Club Skunk
• The band Save Ferris (singer Monique Powell, guitarist Brian Mashburn, bassist Bill Uechi, trumpeter José Castellaños, trombonist Brian Williams, saxophonist Eric Zamora, and drummer Evan Kilbourne) appears as the band performing at the prom

Storyline:

Adapted from William Shakespeare’s play “The Taming of the Shrew,” 10 Things I Hate About You starts off with Cameron, new student at Padua High, sitting in the office of the quirky guidance counselor Ms. Perky. He is then shown around the school by Michael, who will become his best friend. During his tour is when Cameron first sees Bianca Stratford, a beautiful sophomore with one problem: she isn’t allowed to date. And neither is her “shrew” sister, Katarina, a senior who loves indie rock and feminist prose and hates conformity. But Kat and Bianca’s father alters his house rule: now, Bianca can date… as long as Kat has a date, too. Now, in order for Cameron to date Bianca, he has to find someone to date Kat. So Michael helps him enlist the help of pretty-boy/jerk/model Joey Donner, tricking him into thinking that *he* will get to take Bianca out if he pays someone to take out Kat. His choice: Patrick Verona, a bad-boy with a mysterious reputation–some say he ate a live duck once, others that he lit a state trooper on fire, and even more claim that he had a brief porn career. Will Patrick win Kat’s heart? Will Cameron win Bianca’s? Or will everything hit the fan…?

About Movie:

10 Things I Hate About You is an American teen romantic comedy directed by Gil Junger in his directorial debut, starring Julia Stiles, Heath Ledger, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Larisa Oleynik. The screenplay, written by Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith, is a modern adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew, set in a late-1990s American high school.

The script was completed in November 1997, and filming took place from June 8 to August 6, 1998. Many scenes were shot at Stadium High School and a house in Tacoma, Washington, with the prom sequence filmed in Seattle over three days.

Released on March 31, 1999, the film grossed $53.7 million and received positive reviews from critics. It marked breakthrough roles for Stiles, Ledger, and Gordon-Levitt, who received nominations for several teen-oriented awards. A decade later, the film was adapted into a television series, which aired for 20 episodes, with Larry Miller reprising his role as Walter Stratford.

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