10 Things I Hate About You

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

1999 1h 37m EN

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7.6

BANGER

★7.6TMDB · 9,185

ComedyRomanceDrama

Synopsis

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On the first day at his new school, Cameron instantly falls for Bianca, the gorgeous girl of his dreams. The only problem is that Bianca is forbidden to date until her ill-tempered, completely un-dateable older sister Kat goes out, too. In an attempt to solve his problem, Cameron singles out the only guy who could possibly be a match for Kat: a mysterious bad boy with a nasty reputation of his own.

“How do I loathe thee? Let me count the ways.”

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Cast

Heath Ledger
Patrick Verona
Julia Stiles
Katarina Stratford
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Cameron James
Larisa Oleynik
Bianca Stratford
David Krumholtz
Michael Eckman
Andrew Keegan
Joey Donner
Susan May Pratt
Mandella
Gabrielle Union
Chastity

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Gil Junger
Writers: Karen McCullah, Kirsten Smith
Languages: English, French
Countries: United States of America

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1 / 8

MONEY

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Made its money back 3.3× over at the box office.

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2 / 8

ERA

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27 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.

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3 / 8

WORLD

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Dialogue crosses 2 languages: English, French.

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4 / 8

CINEMA

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Part of the "10 Things I Hate About... Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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5 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Gil Junger, shot by Mark Irwin. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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6 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Original score by Richard Gibbs. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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7 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor O. Nicholas Brown shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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8 / 8

CAST

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Heath Ledger and Julia Stiles and Joseph Gordon-Levitt carry the top of the cast.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Gil Junger directs. Mark Irwin behind the camera. Richard Gibbs scores. O. Nicholas Brown cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Made its budget back several times over at the box office. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English, French.

Trivia

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1Made its money back 3.3× over at the box office.
227 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.
3Dialogue crosses 2 languages: English, French.
4Part of the "10 Things I Hate About... Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
5Directed by Gil Junger, shot by Mark Irwin. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
6Original score by Richard Gibbs. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
7Editor O. Nicholas Brown shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
8Heath Ledger and Julia Stiles and Joseph Gordon-Levitt carry the top of the cast.
9Marketing tagline: "How do I loathe thee? Let me count the ways.".
10IMDB entry: tt0147800 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
11Classified under 17 themes, including "high school", "seattle, washington", "deception", "based on play or musical".
12Released under 10 different titles around the world.

The technical file

Cinematography: Mark Irwin
Original score: Richard Gibbs
Editing: O. Nicholas Brown
Production design: Carol Winstead Wood
Costume design: Kimberly A. Tillman
Makeup / hair: Pauletta O. Lewis
Sound: Terry Porter
Stunt coordinator: Ben Scott
Runtime: 97 min · 1h 37m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $16,000,000
Box office: $53,478,166
Return: 334% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): PG-13
IMDB: 10 Things I Hate About You (1999)

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Rob2023-05-09
★ 7/10
Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew in a modern high school setting with humour. Reminiscent of an 80s-style rom-com. Settle back and just enjoy it for what it is.
Andre Gonzales2023-08-21
★ 7/10
Very funny movie. I like the late 90's and early 2000's quirky romance comedies. It's always funny to have embarrassing things happen to you, when your trying to impress a girl.
CinemaSerf2024-02-14
★ 7/10
"Cameron" (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is a bit keen on "Bianca" (Larisa Oleynik) but she has eyes on the wealthy school Lothario "Joey" (Andrew Keegan). Regardless of who likes who, though, her dad won't allow her out of the house, socially, unless her independently-minded and rather stand-offish sister "Kat" (Julia Stiles) goes too. She's no intentions of playing any games of conformity, though, so it's a stale mate! Hormones drive ingenuity and swiftly "Cameron" and his pal "Michael" (David Krumholtz) come up with a plan to hook up "Kat" with "Patrick" (Heath Ledger). He hasn't much interest in the school or it's traditions either, so he might just be for her. Their cunning plan needs a backer, so they alight on the dim "Joey" to fund the operation so he can get a date with "Bianca". What a complex web we have weaved - and of course it's only a matter of time and tequila before we are set on the, rather predictable, bumpy course of true love. It is all standard fayre that leads to an obvious, slightly too sentimental, conclusion, but along the way there is a great soundtrack - Joan Armatrading sounds great with big screen sound - and plenty of humour too. Some of that is a bit crass, but there is still loads that works better as these horny, vain and bloody-minded kids try to get their guy/gal. Allison Janney features all too sparingly as the guidance teacher who cares little for her pupils - unless they can contribute to the steamy novel she is writing when their problems don't disrupt her concentration. Stiles and Ledger do gel well with the latter showing quite a degree of mischievous charisma with his pretty limiting role. There isn't really anything new here, but it has something engaging of the "Breakfast Club" (1985) style to it and I quite enjoyed it. The ending really did make me glad I come from a nation that spares it's children from that ghastly end of term torture that is "the Prom"!