10 Things I Hate About You (1999)
10 Things I Hate About You [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
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Walt Disney Video
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 counsellor secretly writing a trashy romance novel. --Mark Englehart
GBP 3.86
- Closed-captioned
- Colour
- Dolby
- DVD-Video
- Letterboxed
- NTSC
- Widescreen
- Joseph Gordon-Levitt
- David Krumholtz
- David Leisure
- Larry Miller
- Daryl Mitchell
1
1999-10-12
Original Language: English
Original Language: French
Subtitled: English
The great Heath Ledger
Respect I loved this film and Knights Tale. RIP Heath. You will be greatly missed by us all. I watched Heath grow up on screen as I have.
I will miss your comic and serious acting greatly.
Great film of Heath
10 Things I Hate About You
Knights Tale
Ned Kelly
Respect Heath
Good Teeny Chick Flick
Great for a rainy day, or when you just need perking up with a good bit of teeny romance.
It's a lovely, feel-good romantic teen movie - and it's not sickeningly girly either. I like Kat's wild independent, but underneath vulnerable character.
However, it is Ledger and Stiles' performances which have made this a successful movie of it's genre. They are not stupid-teenager/slut figures - but good real people.
No Lazy Lohans here. Good acting, good actors. Great film.
Brings Back Happy Memories
I bought this film after having visited the city that it was filmed in and around, Tacoma in Washington State, USA.
It's a great reminder for me of having visited the area, including the school / university that is featured in the film - Stadium High, and yes, that bank that the motorcycle went down IS as steep as it appears in the film !.
Another plus with this film, besides it being rather amusing, is viewing one of Julia Stiles first leading roles as an actress.
All in all, a nice 'pick me up' film, based on Shakespeares' Taming of the Shrew. (I'd hardly call Ms Stiles a shrew !).
excellent!!!!!!
i love this film.
its a typical chick flick with a feel good factor, i havent bought this but a friend recommended it so i hired it, i was pleasantly surprised as im not a chick flick lover but its definately one im going to buy
amazing!!
I don't own this but I rented it from the video store and after seeing it once it has become my favourite movie of ALL TIME!!!!!
I haven't read the taming of the shrew so I can't compare it to that but I am a real romantic and I love chick flicks, so this was a real treat for me. It wasn't all romance though as there are some incredibly funny parts but it worked well together.
I can't find ONE thing I hate about this film, let alone ten!! I would really recommend buying this film as it is just so good!!!
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