10 Things I Hate About You is a 1999 American romantic comedy film. It is directed by Gil Junger and stars Julia Stiles, Heath Ledger, Larisa Oleynik, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Larry Miller. A loose adaptation of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew set in a modern American high school, the screenplay was written by Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith. The movie's title is a twist on The Taming of the Shrew (see below) but is also a reference to a poem written by the film's female lead to describe her bittersweet romance with the male lead. The film was released March 31, 1999 and was a breakout success for stars Stiles and Ledger.
The movie centers on a new student, Cameron James (Joseph Gordon-Levitt). Cameron develops a crush on Bianca Stratford (Larisa Oleynik), but he is informed by his new friend Michael Eckman (David Krumholtz) that Bianca can't date until her older sister Kat (Julia Stiles) finds a boyfriend, a rule instituted by their overprotective father, Walter (Larry Miller). He and Michael set up an elaborate plan to find Kat a boyfriend in which they persuade a popular, rich student, who also has a crush on Bianca, Joey (Andrew Keegan), to pay an intimidating guy with a bad reputation to go out with Kat, leading Joey to believe that he will have Bianca when she is free to date.
Patrick Verona (Heath Ledger) seems like a good match for equally ill-tempered Kat. However, Kat resists his advances. Eventually she allows him to escort her to a party, so that Bianca too can go to the party. At the party, Cameron finds out that Bianca wanted to date Joey the entire time, while Kat gets drunk and must be cared for by Patrick. Bianca spends time with Joey at the party and realizes he is extremely vain and self-centered. Bianca catches up with Cameron before he leaves the party, and he ends up giving her a ride home. On the ride, Cameron yells at her for being selfish and toying with his emotions so she can date Joey, but she interrupts him with a kiss. Kat however, becomes angry with Patrick when he doesn't kiss her while she's drunk.
At this point, Patrick has fallen for Kat and tries to win her back, going so far as to pay the school band to accompany him while singing "Can't Take My Eyes Off You" in the football stadium. Joey pays for Patrick to take Kat to prom, though at first he is reluctant to take the money. Kat refuses to go to prom, thinking that Patrick has an ulterior motive. Bianca is upset that she can't go to prom. Kat reveals that after their mother left, she slept with Joey in a moment of distress, and was trying to protect her younger sister from making a similar mistake. She and Patrick go to the prom together, and Bianca goes with Cameron.
At the prom, Joey finds Patrick and expresses his anger that while he kept up his end of the bargain and paid Patrick to go out with Kat, Bianca ended up with Cameron instead. Kat hears this, and despite Patrick's attempts to explain, walks out on him. Joey confronts Cameron and punches him, only to be given a black eye by Bianca. The following school day, Kat reads her English assignment, an interpretation of Sonnet 141, aloud to the class, which includes Patrick. To apologize, Patrick buys Kat a guitar which she had been longing for, and they end up together.
Soundtrack
The 10 Things I Hate About You soundtrack was released on April 6, 1999.
Letters to Cleo - "I Want You to Want Me"
Semisonic - "FNT"
Sister Hazel - "Your Winter"
Jessica Riddle - "Even Angels Fall"
Save Ferris - "I Know"
Leroy - "New World"
Ta-Gana - "Saturday Night"
Joan Armatrading - "The Weakness in Me"
George Clinton - "Atomic Dog"
Brick - "Dazz"
The Cardigans - "War"
Madness - "Wings of a Dove"
Letters to Cleo - "Cruel to Be Kind"
Richard Gibbs - "One More Thing"
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