10 Things I Hate About You

10 Things I Hate About You
Promotional poster
Directed by Gil Junger
Produced by Andrew Lazar
Written by
Starring
Music by Richard Gibbs
Cinematography Mark Irwin
Edited by O. Nicholas Brown
Production
company
Distributed by Buena Vista Pictures
Release date
  • March 31, 1999 (1999-03-31)
Running time
 99 minutes
Country United States
Language English
French
Budget US$16 million
Box office US$53.5 million[1]

10 Things I Hate About You is a 1999 American teen romantic comedy-drama film directed by Gil Junger and starring Julia Stiles, Heath Ledger, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Larisa Oleynik. The screenplay, written by Karen McCullah and Kirsten Smith, is a loose modernization of William Shakespeare's late-16th century comedy The Taming of the Shrew, retold in a late-1990s American high school setting. In the story, new student Cameron (Gordon-Levitt) is smitten with Bianca Stratford (Oleynik) and, in order to get around her father's strict rules on dating, attempts to get bad boy Patrick (Ledger) to date Bianca's ill-tempered sister, Kat Stratford (Stiles). The film is titled after a poem written by Kat about her bittersweet romance with Patrick. Much of the filming took place in the Seattle metropolitan area, with many scenes shot at Stadium High School in Tacoma.

Released March 31, 1999, 10 Things I Hate About You was number two at the domestic box office during its opening weekend, behind only The Matrix, and was a moderate financial and critical success. It was a breakthrough role for Stiles, Ledger, and Gordon-Levitt, all of whom were nominated for various teen-oriented awards. Ten years later, the film was adapted into a television series of the same title, which ran for twenty episodes and featured Larry Miller reprising his role as the father, Walter Stratford, from the film.

Plot

Cameron James, a new student at Padua High School in the Seattle area, becomes instantly smitten with popular sophomore Bianca Stratford. Geeky Michael Eckman warns him that Bianca is vapid and conceited, and that her overprotective father does not allow Bianca or her older sister, the shrewish Kat, to date. Kat, a senior, is accepted to Sarah Lawrence College in New York, but her father, Walter, wants her to stay close to home. Bianca wishes to date affluent senior Joey Donner, but Walter, an obstetrician worrisome of teenage pregnancy, will not allow his daughters to date until they graduate. Frustrated by Bianca's insistence and Kat's rebelliousness, Walter declares that Bianca may date only when Kat does, knowing that Kat's antisocial attitude makes this unlikely.

When Cameron asks Bianca out, she informs him of her father's new rule and, as a pretense for allowing her to date Joey, suggests that Cameron find someone willing to date Kat. Cameron selects "bad boy" Patrick Verona, but Patrick scares him off. Michael assists by convincing Joey to pay Patrick to take out Kat, under the pretense that this will allow Joey to date Bianca. Patrick agrees to the deal, but Kat rebuffs his first few advances. Michael and Cameron help him by prying Bianca for information on Kat's likes and dislikes. Armed with this knowledge, Patrick begins to win Kat's interest. She goes to a party with him, which enables Bianca to go as well, much to Walter's dismay.

At the party, Kat becomes upset when she sees Bianca with Joey, and responds by getting drunk. Patrick attends to her, and Kat starts to open up, expressing her interest in starting a band. However, when she tries to kiss him, Patrick pulls away and Kat leaves, infuriated. Meanwhile, Bianca ignores Cameron in favor of Joey, leaving Cameron dejected. Bianca soon realizes, however, that Joey is shallow and self-absorbed, and asks Cameron for a ride home. Cameron admits his feelings for her and his frustration with how she has treated him. Bianca responds by kissing him.

Joey offers to pay Patrick to take Kat to the prom so he can take Bianca. Patrick initially refuses, but relents when Joey offers him more money. Kat is still angry with Patrick, but he wins her over by serenading her with the accompaniment of the marching band, and she helps him sneak out of detention. They go on a date which turns romantic, but Kat becomes suspicious and angry when Patrick insists that she go with him to the prom, an event she is adamantly against. Bianca is irritated that Cameron has not asked her to the prom, and so accepts Joey's invitation, but Walter will not allow it unless Kat goes too. Kat confesses to Bianca that she dated Joey when they were freshmen and, succumbing to peer pressure, had sex with him. Afterward she regretted it and Joey dumped her, so she vowed to never again do anything just because everyone else was doing it. Bianca insists that she can make her own choices, so Kat agrees to go to the prom with Patrick, and Bianca decides to go with Cameron instead of Joey.

All is going well at the prom until Bianca learns that Joey planned to have sex with her that night. Angry that Bianca has spurned him for Cameron, Joey reveals his arrangement with Patrick, which causes Kat to leave heartbroken. Joey then punches Cameron, but is in turn beaten up by Bianca for having hurt her, Kat, and Cameron. Bianca and Cameron share another kiss.

The next day, Bianca reconciles with Kat and begins dating Cameron. Walter admits that Kat is capable of taking care of herself, and gives her permission to attend Sarah Lawrence College. For an assignment in which the students were required to write their own version of William Shakespeare's Sonnet 141, Kat reads aloud a poem titled "10 Things I Hate About You", revealing that she still loves Patrick. Patrick surprises her with a guitar bought with the money that Joey paid him, and confesses that he has fallen for her. Kat forgives him, and the two reconcile with a kiss.

Cast

  • Julia Stiles as Katarina "Kat" Stratford, the antisocial, shrewish elder Stratford sister. Throughout the course of the movie, the mean, tough girl persona is revealed to be an act and she is shown to be secretly vulnerable underneath.
  • Heath Ledger as Patrick Verona, the "bad boy" who is hired to date Kat and falls for her in the process. Like Kat, Patrick's "bad boy" persona is revealed to be mostly a front.
  • Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Cameron James, the new student at Padua High School who is a total outsider and nerdy who is smitten with Bianca and goes to great lengths to win her attention. He and his new friend Michael helps Patrick to get a date with Kat.
  • Larisa Oleynik as Bianca Stratford, the younger of the two Stratford sisters, superficial and popular.
  • Larry Miller as Walter Stratford, an obstetrician and single parent who is overprotective of his daughters, Kat and Bianca.
  • Andrew Keegan as Joey Donner, an affluent, self-absorbed high school senior and aspiring model who is popular in high school who intends to have sex with Bianca, and to that end pays Patrick to date Kat. He is the main antagonist in the movie.
  • David Krumholtz as Michael Eckman, a geek who assists Cameron and becomes his best friend in his quest to woo Bianca, and in the process tries to woo Kat's friend Mandella. He and Cameron help Patrick get a date with Bianca sister Kat.
  • Susan May Pratt as Mandella, Kat's only close friend and an aficionado of William Shakespeare, who ends up going to the prom with Michael. She becomes Michael's love interest.
  • Gabrielle Union as Chastity Church, Bianca's best friend, who betrays Bianca by going out with Joey when Bianca spurns him.
  • 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. He is Michael's rival and nemesis.
  • 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 playing a cover version 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".

Production

Many of the scenes were filmed on location at Stadium High School and at a house in the Proctor District of Tacoma, Washington. The prom sequence was shot over three days in Seattle.[2]

Costume designer Kim Tillman designed original dresses for Larisa Oleynik and Julia Stiles as well as the period outfits for Susan May Pratt and David Krumholtz. Gabrielle Union's snakeskin prom dress is a Betsey Johnson design. Heath Ledger and Joseph Gordon-Levitt's vintage tuxes came from Isadora's in Seattle.[2]

The primary tagline is an allusion to a poem written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning from her Sonnets from the Portuguese collection. ("How do I loathe thee? Let me count the ways.") Another tagline is a spoof from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet ("Romeo, Oh Romeo, Get Out Of My Face.") and another is a line from The Taming of the Shrew that is spoken in the film by Cameron ("I burn, I pine, I perish!"). The original script was finalized on November 12, 1997.[3]

Release and reception

Box office

In its opening weekend, the film grossed US$8,330,681 in 2,271 theaters in the United States and Canada, averaging $3,668 per venue, and ranking number two at the box office (behind The Matrix). It grossed a total of $38,178,166 in the United States and Canada and $15,300,000 in other territories, about $53,500,000 worldwide. The film had an estimated budget of $16 million and is considered a moderate financial and critical success. On October 12, 1999, the Region 1 DVD was released. In the box office, the film is number ten in teen romance, 18th in high school comedies, and ranked 96th in comedies.[4]

Critics

The film received generally positive feedback from critics. Geoff Andrew from Time Out praised the film's leads, stating "Stiles grows into her character, and Ledger is effortlessly charming".[5] Brad Laidman from Film Threat said the film was "pure of heart and perfectly executed."[6] Ron Wells, another critic from Film Threat, expressed, "Of all the teen films released this year, this one is, by far, the best."[7] Roger Ebert gave the film two and a half stars out of four:

Entertainment Weekly listed the film at #49 on its list of Best High School Movies.[9]

On Rotten Tomatoes, the film got a 61% from critics, based on 62 reviews, with a rating of 6.1/10. The critical consensus on the site was:

Awards and nominations

10 Things I Hate About You was a breakthrough role for stars Stiles, Ledger, and Gordon-Levitt.[11][12][13] Gordon-Levitt, Stiles, and Oleynik each received Young Star Award nominations for Best Actor/Actress in a Comedy Film. The movie was nominated for seven Teen Choice Awards: Choice Movie: Breakout Star (Stiles), Choice Movie: Comedy, Choice Movie: Funniest Scene (featuring Krumholtz), Choice Movie: Love Scene (featuring Stiles and Ledger), Choice Movie: Hissy Fit (Gordon-Levitt), Choice Movie: Villain (Gordon-Levitt) and Choice Movie: Soundtrack. The film's casting directors Marcia Ross and Donna Morong won "Best Casting for Feature Film, Comedy" at the Casting Society of America in 1999. In 2000, Stiles won the CFCA Award for "Most Promising Actress" for her role as Kat Stratford (tied with Émilie Dequenne in Rosetta) and an MTV Movie Award for Breakthrough Female Performance. The same year, Ledger was nominated for Best Musical Performance for the song "Can't Take My Eyes Off You."

Soundtrack album

The soundtrack album features popular modern rock anthems from 1970s up to the late 1990s, including various covers from Letters to Cleo, who created modernised renditions of songs such as "I Want You To Want Me" by Cheap Trick and "Cruel to Be Kind" by Nick Lowe. The albums peak position in the Billboard (magazine) charts was 52nd,[14] which was just after its release and it managed to hold a place in the Billboard top 200 for a total of 27 weeks.[15] Artists such as The Notorious B.I.G. and Joan Jett were also used in the films soundtrack, although were not featured on the soundtrack album. The album was described by AllMusic as "One of the best modern rock soundtracks of the spring 1999 season".[16]

10 Things I Hate About You
Soundtrack album by various artists
Released April 6, 1999 (1999-04-06)
Genre
Label Hollywood
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[17]
No.TitleWriter(s)PerformerLength
1."I Want You to Want Me" (originally performed by Cheap Trick)Rick NielsenLetters to Cleo3:25
2."F.N.T." (from Great Divide, 1996)Dan Wilson, Jacob SlichterSemisonic3:29
3."I Know" (contains an interpretation of "Shout", written by O'Kelly Isley, Ronald Isley, and Rudolph Isley and originally performed by The Isley Brothers)Michael Holton, Miré Molner, Brian MashburnSave Ferris2:52
4."Your Winter" (from Fortress, 2000)Ken Block, Jett Beres, Andrew Copeland, Ryan Newell, Mark Trojanowski, Bill SmithSister Hazel4:39
5."Even Angels Fall" (from Key of a Minor, 2000)Tom Whitlock, Jessica Riddle, Kim Bullard, Penny FramstadJessica Riddle3:27
6."New World" (from Leroy, 2001)Leroy MillerLeroy3:02
7."Saturday Night"Rodney Jerkins, Marti Sharron, Dan SembelloTa-Gana4:26
8."Atomic Dog" (from Computer Games, 1982)George Clinton, Garry Shider, David SpradleyGeorge Clinton4:44
9."Dazz" (from Good High, 1976)Ray Ransom, Edward Irons, Reginald HargisBrick3:24
10."The Weakness in Me" (from Walk Under Ladders, 1981)Joan ArmatradingJoan Armatrading3:32
11."War" (from "My Favourite Game", 1998)Peter Svensson, Nina PerssonThe Cardigans3:57
12."Wings of a Dove" (1983)Carl Smyth, Graham McPhersonMadness3:00
13."Cruel to Be Kind" (originally performed by Nick Lowe)Nick Lowe, Ian GommLetters to Cleo3:01
14."One More Thing"Richard GibbsRichard Gibbs3:01
Total length:49:59

Adaptations

In June 1999, the Scholastic Corporation published a novelization of the story, adapted by David Levithan.[18] The story is retold as it is in the film with each chapter written from the point of view of either Bianca, Cameron, Kat, Patrick, or Michael.

In October 2008, ABC Family ordered a pilot episode of 10 Things I Hate About You, a half-hour, single-camera comedy series based on the feature film of the same name. Larry Miller is the only actor from the film to reprise his role in the television series. The director of the film, Gil Junger, directed many of the episodes including the pilot while the film's music composer, Richard Gibbs, also returned to do the show's music. The series was adapted and produced by Carter Covington.[19] The show premiered on July 7, 2009,[20] and lasted 20 episodes.

References to Shakespeare

The film is a retelling of William Shakespeare's play The Taming of the Shrew in an American high school setting. Screenwriters Karen McCullah and Kirsten Smith also wrote the script for She's the Man (2006), a retelling of Shakespeare's play Twelfth Night set in an American college.

Kat and Bianca share the same names as the female leads in the original play. Their surname is Stratford, a nod to Shakespeare's birthplace. Patrick's surname Verona references the home of his relative character Petruchio. The characters attend Padua High School, named after where the play is set.

Cameron (Lucentio, who disguises himself as a tutor named Cambio) tutors Bianca in French and slips in a line from play while obsessing over her: "I burn, I pine, I perish". Patrick's character reflects the outlandish behavior of Petruchio, and Michael coerces Patrick into the marching band incident with the words from Sonnet 56: "Sweet love, renew thy force". The physicality of Petruchio and Katherina is transformed into a playful paintball match; the prom substitutes for the Act V feast; Kat's poem replaces Katherina's famous Act V speech; and Joey Donner's wager over Bianca's virginity parallels the bet placed by Shakespeare's husbands regarding their partners' obedience.[21]

References

  1. ↑ 10 Things I Hate About You at Box Office Mojo
  2. 1 2 Write-up on CinemaReview.com. Retrieved May 24, 2008.
  3. ↑ "Internet Movie Script Database". Imsdb.com. November 12, 1997. Retrieved August 23, 2012.
  4. ↑ "10 Things I Hate About You (1999)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved August 23, 2012.
  5. ↑ "10 Things I Hate About You Review. Movie Reviews - Film - Time Out New York". Archived from the original on September 22, 2009. Retrieved September 19, 2009.
  6. ↑ "10 Things I Hate About You". Film Threat. Archived from the original on September 22, 2009. Retrieved September 19, 2009.
  7. ↑ "Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies". Film Threat. Archived from the original on September 22, 2009. Retrieved September 19, 2009.
  8. ↑ Ebert, Roger. "10 Things I Hate About You". Chicago Sun-Times. Archived from the original on August 13, 2009. Retrieved August 10, 2009.
  9. ↑ EW Staff (September 22, 2012). "50 Best High School Movies | Photo 1 of 50". EW.com. Retrieved March 7, 2014.
  10. ↑ "10 Things I Hate About You (1999)". rottentomatoes.com. Retrieved 29 November 2014.
  11. ↑ Aames, Ethan. "Julia Stiles on "The Omen"". Cinema Confidential News. June 5, 2006. Retrieved on October 28, 2006.
  12. ↑ Eisenbach, Helen. "10 Thing We Love About Julia Stiles". Manhattan File Magazine. January 2000. Retrieved October 28, 2006.
  13. ↑ Maher, Kevin. "Heath Ledger- The Accidental Hero". Times Sunday Magazine. October 14, 2006. Retrieved October 28, 2006.
  14. ↑ "The Billboard 200". United States. May 1, 1999. Retrieved February 18, 2018.
  15. ↑ "The Billboard 200". United States. September 9, 1999. Retrieved February 18, 2018.
  16. ↑ Peeples, S. 10 Things I Hate About You review allmusic.com. Retrieved on 2018-02-18.
  17. ↑ Peeples, S. 10 Things I Hate About You review allmusic.com. Retrieved on 2011-05-17.
  18. ↑ 10 Things I Hate About You. New York: Scholastic. ISBN 0439087309.
  19. ↑ Nguyen, Hanh. "ABC Family Greenlights '10 Things I Hate,' 'Ruby' Pilots." Zap2it.com. October 8, 2008. Retrieved on October 8, 2008.
  20. ↑ "ABC Family: 10 Things I Hate About You". Archived from the original on June 19, 2009. Retrieved June 17, 2009.
  21. ↑ Pittman, L. Monique (2004). "Taming "10 Things I Hate About You": Shakespeare and the Teenage Film Audience". Salisbury University Literature/Film Quarterly. 32 (2): 144–152. JSTOR 43797167.
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