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10 Things I Hate About You (DVD)

 
Description: Genre: Comedy / Theatrical Release: 1999 / Director: Gil Junger / Actors: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, David Krumholtz ... / ... more
10 Things I Hate About You (DVD) ... DVD released 12 October, 1999 at Walt Disney Video / Features of the DVD: Closed-captioned, Colour, Dolby, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, NTSC, Widescreen / 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

Newest Review: ... including the late Heath Ledger, Julia Stiles, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Larisa Oleynik. It is 97 minutes long and directed by ... more

 ... Gil Junger. The story centres around new student Cameron who is given a school tour by geek Michael. He spots the popular Bianca and falls head over heels in love with her at first sight. Cameron starts tutoring her in French when she seeks one and soon realises that he can only date Bianca if her sister Kat starts dating too. The girls father is strict and used to seeing teenage pregnancies in his job so is very over protective of his girls. He set up the dating rule as he assumes Kat (who is a bit of an outsider...more

DixieChick101
Premium Review 10 Things I Hate About You (DVD): How do I loathe thee... let me count the ways. (1411 words)
by - written on 09/03/08 (Very useful, 212 readings)
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For years now 10 Things I Hate About you has been my favourite film, it's got everything; great music, great cast, great acting and of course eye candy, but it's still such a basic film. Read on if you want to know more about the best film ever made: The Basic Plot Okay the plot isn't that basic to tell but when you watch it it's a lot simpler. Cameron is a new student at Padua high and falls in love with a sophomore called Bianca. However he's not the only one who likes her, the 'jock' of the school is called Joey and he wants her for himself. Bianca's sister is the complete opposite of her, Kat doesn't do things that ...  Read the complete review

poppylove
Premium Review i hate the way you drive my car (326 words)
by - written on 19/01/08 (Useful, 62 readings)
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this has to be the ultimate chick flick. 10 things i hate about you is a modern day adaption of shakespeares taming of the shrew. It's a story of boy meets girl with all the complications in the middle and all the typical teen melodrama. It's a story about a boy who falls inlove with the most popular girl in school,you watch as he tries to win her heart and in true chik flick style the boy gets the girl. all though the acting wasnt great in it i still think the actorsdid their characters justice. whos in it? Kat Stratford- julia styles Patrick Verona-heath ledger Cameron- joseph gordan-levitt Bianca Stratford-Larisa ...  Read the complete review

coledsteel
Crowned Review 10 Things I Hate About You (DVD): "Mostly, I hate the way I don't hate you" (1089 words)
by - written on 05/12/04 (Very useful, 537 readings)
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Saw this film a few years ago, but was so hooked I had to watch it over and over again, as if squeezing the last of the water out of a sponge. I even took it out of a DVD rental place multiple times, to watch it with different friends, as it is a very common favourite with every single one of my friends. One even so much so that she has watched it at least 30 times to date. A bit obsessive I know, but oddly enough she is the smartest girl I know, and that is saying something. Under no circumstances has the teen film genre been any better than it is today. Many of the classics related with a massive profit from the box office succession of titles like She's All ...  Read the complete review

wampyrii
Crowned Review How Do I Loath Thee... (1246 words)
by - written on 28/10/02 (Very useful, 803 readings)
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I must be sickening for something, firstly because I actually taped this the other night when it was on TV and secondly because I watched it AND enjoyed it earlier today. To clarify, I usually abhore teen movies. I hate the way they trot out the same 25 year old plastic people, shove them in a California high school and loosely hang the plot of another, better movie around the script of a far worse one. The most recent trend seems to be to take a Shakespearean play and dumb it down to the glitzy California high school scene and that's what you get with 10 Things I Hate About You - this time, The Taming Of The Shrew gets the treatment. Umm, it's actually ...  Read the complete review

wendz86
Premium Review 10 Things I Hate About You (DVD): You're Just Too Good To Be True (794 words)
by - written on 26/05/09 (Very useful, 75 readings)
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This has to be one of my favourite chick flicks. I am a big fan of them and this has been among the top of my list since it came out in 1999. The film is based on the Shakesphere play 'Taming Of The Shrew'. It is a more modern adaption though based in a highschool in America. The film is based around a group of characters who attend the school. There are the sisters Bianca (Larisa Oleynik) and Kat (Julia Stiles), whose mother left the family a few years ago. Their father now, who is a doctor for teenage mothers, is very over protective. He never lets the girls go to parties or date anyone. The two girls are very different. Bianca is the perfect one who all ...  Read the complete review

 
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