Movie: 10 Things I Hate About You (1999)

• Director: Gil Junger
• Release Date: 31 March 1999 (USA)
• Run Time: 97 min
• Country: USA
• Genre: Comedy , Romance  
• MPAA: Rated PG-13 for crude sex-related humor and dialogue, alcohol and drug-related scenes, all involving teens.

Tagline: How do I loathe thee? Let me count the ways.  

Trivia: Heath Ledger beat out Josh Hartnett and Ashton Kutcher for the role of Patrick.
 

Goofs: Continuity: When Kat rams Joey’s car her hands continually change position on the steering wheel between shots without Kat actually moving.
 

“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 alter’s 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…? Written by Erica Baffa”