Film· 1999· Comedy

10 Things I Hate About You

by Gil Junger

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The Taming of the Shrew

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The film moves the play to a Seattle high school and keeps its names: Kat Stratford is Katherina, Bianca keeps hers, and Patrick Verona is Petruchio of Verona, paid to court the sister who must be married off first.

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10 Things I Hate About You

A high-school boy, Cameron, cannot date Bianca until her anti-social older sister, Kat, has a boyfriend. So, Cameron pays a mysterious boy, Patrick, to charm Kat. 10 Things I Hate About You is a 1999 American teen romantic comedy directed by Gil Junger from a screenplay by Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith. Loosely inspired by and based on William Shakespeare's comedy The Taming of the Shrew, it stars Julia Stiles, Heath Ledger, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Larisa Oleynik, Larry Miller, Andrew Keegan, David Krumholtz, Susan May Pratt, and Gabrielle Union.

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