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10 Things I Hate About You

starring: Kyle Cease, Cameron Fraser, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Tarance Houston, Greg Jackson (II)

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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: OLEYNIK,LARISA
EAN: 0717951004208
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Widescreen
Label: Touchstone Pictures
Manufacturer: Touchstone Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Letterbox
Publisher: Touchstone Pictures
Region Code: 1
Release Date: October 12, 1999
Running Time: 97 minutes
Sales Rank: 915
Studio: Touchstone Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: March 31, 1999



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Description:
A cool cast of young stars is just one of the things you'll love about this hilarious comedy hit! On the first day at his new school, Cameron (Joseph Gordon-Levitt -- HALLOWEEN: H2O, TV's '3RD Rock From The Sun') instantly falls for Bianca (Larisa Oleynik -- THE BABY SITTERS CLUB), 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 (Julia Stiles -- THE BOURNE IDENTITY, SAVE THE LAST DANCE) 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 (Heath Ledger -- A KNIGHT'S TALE, THE PATRIOT) with a nasty reputation of his own! Also featuring a hip soundtrack -- this witty comedy is a wildly entertaining look at exactly how far some guys will go to get a date!

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It's, like, Shakespeare, man! This good-natured and likeable update of The Taming of the Shrew takes the basics of Shakespeare's farce about a surly wench and the man who tries to win her and transfers it to modern-day Padua High School. Kat Stratford (Julia Stiles) is a sullen, forbidding riot grrrl who has a blistering word for everyone; her sunny younger sister Bianca (Larisa Oleynik) is poised for high school stardom. The problem: overprotective and paranoid Papa Stratford (a dryly funny Larry Miller) won't let Bianca date until boy-hating Kat does, which is to say never. When Bianca's pining suitor Cameron (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) gets wind of this, he hires the mysterious, brooding Patrick Verona (Heath Ledger) to loosen Kat up. Of course, what starts out as a paying gig turns to true love as Patrick discovers that underneath her brittle exterior, Kat is a regular babe. The script, by Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith, is sitcom-funny with peppy one-liners and lots of smart teenspeak; however, its cleverness and imagination doesn't really extend beyond its characters' Renaissance names and occasional snippets of real Shakespearean dialogue. What makes the movie energetic and winning is the formula that helped make She's All That such a big hit: two high-wattage stars who look great and can really act. Ledger is a hunk of promise with a quick grin and charming Aussie accent, and Stiles mines Kat's bitterness and anger to depths usually unknown in teen films; her recitation of her English class sonnet (from which the film takes its title) is funny, heartbreaking, and hopelessly romantic. The imperious Allison Janney (Primary Colors) nearly steals the film as a no-nonsense guidance counselor secretly writing a trashy romance novel. --Mark Englehart



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Rating: 3 out of 5 stars - 10 Things I Hate About You
For all its hip dialogue and contemporary ideologies, "10 Things I Hate About You" uses a plot so ... Read More


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - One for the Collection
This fun little flick, a modernization of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, is definitely one ... Read More


Rating: 1 out of 5 stars - Artificial
The movie is just a vehicle for Heath Ledger to do a hokey, unrealistic singing/dancing routine on ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Hilarious
This movie fits well within the genre of teen comedy, along with Clueless (which I also love). This ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - 10 Things I hate about you
I love this movie and I had it on VHS and it stop working so I bought it in DVD. It is a classic.

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