A highlight for Heath

Rating: 8/10 (21 August 2008)

10 Things I Hate About You made a couple of young actors into young stars including Australia's Heath Ledger and Julia Stiles.Based on Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew,it follows Katarina"Kat" Stratford(Julia Stiles) who is the "shrew" who is convinced to date mysterious bad boy Patrick Verona(Heath Ledger) who is essentially "taming the shrew" so that Cameron James(Joseph Gordon-Levitt) who is the new kid at Padua High School who lays eyes on Kat's sister,Bianca(Larisa Oleynik) can date her due to her father's bizarre rules.The rest of the cast also includes the likes of Joseph Gordon-Levitt,David Krumholtz(portrays Michael Eckman who is Cam's best friend),Andrew Keegan(Joey Donner who is looking to date Bianca),and comedian Larry Miller as Dr.Walter Stratford,the sisters' father.Overall a good job by the cast but in my view I think it is Heath Ledger who steals the show due to his character's personality and the way he interacts with just about everything else.