*sigh* Heath Ledger....

Rating: 8/10 (26 June 2006)

It has come to my attention that I tend to see films because the guy starring in it is attractive and sometimes I feel the disappointment of a truly bad film full of hot air added by hype.
Not this film. Alas, I did see this movie for Heath Ledger but while watching I discovered who is now one of my favorite actresses: Julia Stiles.
As a modern day take of "The Taming of the Shrew" Julia Stiles is wonderful as a shrew high school senior who is repulsed by her pretty and popular younger sister, annoyed by her father and mad at the rest of the world for a reason no one can place.
Enter Joseph Gordon-Levitt who is enchanted by BIanca and wants to date her. One problem, she can't date until her shrew of a sister does and incomes the game to find someone to date her sister, get Bianca to even give him a second look and stop her from falling for the school "pretty boy."
This is probably on the list of movies I will watch over and over again. Intelligent humor, no slapstick. A meaning and a cute ending. The whole package.-8 out of 10.