10 Things I Hate About You

10 Things I Hate About You is a teen comedy film based on William Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew. It stars Julia Stiles as Kat, a rebellious high school senior, who once was popular, but decided one day not to do things just because everyone else was. Her sister is Bianca, a sophomore, is the total opposite, and wants to conform in order to be cool. HOWEVER, their father will only allow Bianca to date only if Kat dates first. She then gets a guy she likes to devise a plan to help Kat fall in love.
== Plot ==
In Padua Hills, a fictional town near Seattle, new sophomore student Cameron (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) instantly falls head over heels for the girl of his dreams: popular and wealthy sophomore Bianca (Larisa Oleynik), but learns that her father has prohibited her from dating until her ill-tempered, hot-headed older sister Kat (Julia Stiles), who is a senior and eagerly awaiting the moment she can leave town for college in the fall, gets a boyfriend. In attempt to solve his problem, Cameron's new friend, the wealthy aspiring model and self-absorbed senior Joey Donner (Andrew Keegan) finds the only guy who could possibly be a match for Kat: Patrick Verona, a mysterious bad boy who is a junior and has a nasty reputation of his own. For $500, Patrick has to go out and break Kat's heart before the end of the school year, but while hanging out with her, he develops feelings for her as she becomes more vulnerable to him than she has with anyone else.
== Cast ==
* Julia Stiles as Katarina "Kat" Stratford, the antisocial, shrewish elder Stratford sister
* Heath Ledger as Patrick Verona, the Australian "bad boy" hired to date Kat
* Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Cameron James, the new student at Padua High School who is smitten with Bianca and goes to great lengths to win her favor
* Larisa Oleynik as Bianca Stratford, the younger Stratford sister, superficial and popular
* Larry Miller as Walter Stratford, an obstetrician and single parent who is overprotective of his daughters
* Andrew Keegan as Joey Donner, an affluent, self-absorbed high school senior and aspiring model who intends to have sex with Bianca, and to that end pays Patrick to date Kat
* David Krumholtz as Michael Eckman, a geek who assists Cameron in his quest to woo Bianca, and in the process tries to woo Kat's friend Mandella
* Susan May Pratt as Mandella, Kat's only close friend and an aficionado of William Shakespeare
* Gabrielle Union as Chastity Church, Bianca's best friend
* Daryl Mitchell as Mr. Morgan, teacher of Kat, Patrick, and Joey's English class
* Allison Janney as Ms. Perky, Padua High School's guidance counselor and a writer of erotic literature
* David Leisure as Mr. Chapin, coach of the girls' soccer team
* Greg Jackson as "Scurvy", a friend of Patrick
* Kyle Cease as Bogey Lowenstein, a golf enthusiast and member of a clique of aspiring MBAs
* The band Letters to Cleo (singer Kay Hanley, guitarists Greg McKenna and Michael Eisenstein, bassist Scott Riebling, and drummer Jason Sutter) appears as the band performing at Club Skunk, playing their songs "Come On" and "Co-Pilot", and a cover of Cheap Trick's "I Want You to Want Me" on the school's rooftop during the closing credits. Hanley and Eisenstein also appear in the prom scene, performing a cover of Nick Lowe's "Cruel to Be Kind" with Save Ferris.
* The band Save Ferris (singer Monique Powell, guitarist Brian Mashburn, bassist Bill Uechi, trumpeter José Castellaños, trombonist Brian Williams, saxophonist Eric Zamora, and drummer Evan Kilbourne) appears as the band performing at the prom, playing their songs "I Know" and "Can't Stop" as well as covers of The Isley Brothers' "Shout" and Nick Lowe's "Cruel to Be Kind".
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