10 Things I Hate About You

1999 · 97 min · dir. Gil Junger

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. In the film, high-school student Cameron James (Gordon-Levitt) is unable to date Bianca Stratford (Oleynik) until her asocial feminist sister Kat (Stiles) dates, leading to Cameron recruiting bad boy classmate Patrick Verona (Ledger) to date Kat. Synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.