97 minutesLanguageEnglishBudget$30 millionBox office$60.4 million10 Things I Hate About You is a 1999 American romantic comedy film directed by Gil Junger and starring Julia Stiles, Heath Ledger, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Larisa Oleynik. The screenplay, written by Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith, is a 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 and, in order to get around her father's strict rules on dating, attempts to get bad boy Patrick to date Bianca's ill-tempered sister, Kat .
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. In the pivotal scene of 10 Things I Hate About You Julia Stiles' character reads an emotional poem she wrote about all the reasons why she hates Heath Ledger's character.
A Planned Parenthood advocacy group took a page from the iconic 90s teen flick in expressing their outrage over Republican legislators' health care bill through poetry. Entitled 13 Things I Hate About You, the poem is addressed directly to the "American 'Health Care' Act" and follows a format similar to the poem in 10 Things I Hate About You. I hate your big dumb combat boots, and the way you read my mind. Not only that, but I think that, rhythm-wise, this one's hard to beat. Sometimes it's fast-paced; sometimes it's slow and reflective; sometimes it's outright sappy.
But it hits every beat in a way that feels perfectly tuned for a teen romantic comedy. But it lands its jokes and repartee, as well as its more tender moments, in ways that feel a tad reminiscent of the Bard. Each year the Readings & Workshops program provides support to hundreds of writers participating in literary readings and conducting writing workshops. Learn more about this program, our special events, projects, and supporters, and how to contact us. Poets & Writers lists readings, workshops, and other literary events held in cities across the country. Whether you are an author on book tour or the curator of a reading series, the Literary Events Calendar can help you find your audience.
Geoff Andrew from Time Out praised the film's leads, stating, "Stiles grows into her character, and Ledger is effortlessly charming". Brad Laidman from Film Threat said the film was "pure of heart and perfectly executed". Julia Stiles's independence as Kat also largely undermines the wager Patrick makes about her, because the movie makes it clear that she's so conscious about her own choices that she's well past the life stage of being manipulated by the ruse of a dumb bet. Heath Ledger's Patrick clearly realizes this early on, and every scene in which she chooses to let him past her emotional walls reads like a victory, not for him, but for her, because she's so consciously choosing to be vulnerable with him. That's why the scene when she reads the poem is, in my opinion, so powerful — because Julia Stiles manages to make Kat fully in command of even her rawest emotions. Even when she learns about the bet, she's never ashamed of having fallen for Patrick; instead she turns her emotional honesty into a final Hail Mary move to get what she wants.
The film is remembered for more than serving as a breeding ground for a new generation of stars. Based loosely on Shakespeare's play The Taming of the Shrew, the movie told the story of two sisters in Seattle, Kat and Bianca , whose overbearing doctor father forbade them from dating in the fear that they'd come home knocked up. Find information about how Poets & Writers provides support to hundreds of writers participating in literary readings and conducting writing workshops. 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 show premiered on July 7, 2009, and ended on May 24, 2010, lasting only 20 episodes.
The only case in which Kat is shown to be wrong, in fact, is when she treats Bianca with disdain rather than sympathy, and lies to her rather than tell her the truth about the world. Their eventual rapprochement becomes one of the movie's loveliest grace notes, and it's part of what makes the movie's feminism hold up. As far as 10 Things is concerned, Kat is right about everything except for the internalized misogyny that makes her despise her girly-girl little sister. Feminists are right to be angry, is the idea, but also girls should support other girls. On March 31, 1999, the teen comedy 10 Things I Hate About You hit theaters, and the world has never quite been the same. It boasts a cast on the cusp of stardom — Julia Stiles, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Heath Ledger among them, plus Allison Janney as the erotica-writing guidance counselor, just months before The West Wing debuted.
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But I'm the tiniest bit of a romantic, and so I also love that exchange between Patrick and Kat on the steps, where she tells him that she doesn't like to live up to other people's expectations instead of her own. "So you disappoint them from the start and then you're covered, right? "You never disappointed me." A That's the whole movie, right there.
But they're also helped out tremendously by the power of a great ensemble cast. Every line Allison Janney utters as the oversexed, over-her-job guidance counselor is pure gold, and we've already discussed Daryl Mitchell's exasperated English teacher. Larisa Oleynik and Joseph Gordon-Levitt are adorably over-earnest as the B romance in a sea of teen actors all playing their parts to the hilt.
(Shoutout to Joey's model poses.) And even with all that, the line that gets me every time is David Leisure as Mr. Chapin stealing detention Cheetos for himself with a simple, "This too." His line delivery here is perfection. But Australian man Heath Ledger somehow managed to completely assume the role of American teen dreamboat. Ledger is the embodiment of charm here, in ways that feel hard-won and not born of privilege or ulterior motives.
That "Can't Take My Eyes Off of You" scene is still one of my favorites in history because of how it locks in amber the raw, rare talent that Ledger had — to be as silly as he was suave, as moving as he was able to move. It's a gorgeously funny, vulnerable performance that is the stuff of lifelong crushes. And that never feels forced, or wrong, or frustrating; instead, I wish I could point to more teen movies of the era that had such an easy pair for us to root for. Mix and match your favorite art prints on a gallery wall showcasing everything that makes your style unique. Art prints are available in five sizes, from x-small to x-large. During a Q&A with the screenwriters, Karen McCullah revealed where the title came from.
"The title is based on a diary entry I made in high school," she explained. "I had a boyfriend named Anthony that I was frequently unhappy with. In the film comedy Ten Things I Hate About You , the character Chastity Church asks, "I know you can be underwhelmed and you can be overwhelmed, but can you ever just be whelmed? Contemporary writers sometimes use whelm to denote a middle stage between underwhelm and overwhelm. "But mostly I hate the way you don't really care about Americans' health," Planned Parenthood's poem concludes. One glaring difference between Planned Parenthood's poem and the infamous movie version?
Under the Affordable Care Act, the list of "essential health benefits" insurers must cover was expanded to include more basic women's health services such as mammograms, birth control, maternity care, and cervical cancer screenings. The Senate bill, however, appears to follow a tactic similar to that outlined in the House bill — to allow states to define essential health benefits and levels of coverage. Many women's health experts fear such a move could result in women losing affordable access to basic health services. Planned Parenthood isn't the only organization to express concern with how the Senate health care bill stands to impact women.
The American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists has said they believe the bill will effectively "turn back the clock" on women's health. "This legislation deliberately strips the landmark women's health gains made by the Affordable Care Act and would severely limit access to care," ACOG President Dr. Haywood Brown said in a statement. Take a guided tour of Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, Nashville, New Orleans, New York City, and many other cities. We asked authors, booksellers, publishers, editors, and others to share the places they go to connect with writers of the past, to the bars and cafés where today's authors give readings, and to those sites that are most inspiring for writing.
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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.
Released March 31, 1999, 10 Things I Hate About You grossed $60 million and received generally positive reviews from critics. 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 Walter Stratford from the film. Add your poems, quotes, or title ideas to share with other members. DownloadDear site visitors, in order to download 10 things i hate about you poem ringtone or cut a song from category Other, click on the "Download" button. In moments like this — as people grapple to understand variants and vaccines, and kids head back to school — many outlets take their paywalls down.
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But now that I can better see the forest for the trees, I find her discomfort, her frustration, her distrust of basic high school society to be, if not completely relatable, empathetic. Now that I am a woman who can maturely support other women instead of sneering at their lack of bratty bona fides, relationships like Kat's with Bianca and with, well, most people in general is something that I appreciate, not judge. And even knowing this, nothing prepared me, the first time I saw 10 Things 20 years ago, for how electrifying I found Julia Stiles's Kat viciously asserting her right to be a bitch in a world that was prepared to demonize her no matter what. That she was still just a teenager made it even more radical to me at the time that she was both so fully conscious of the social rules she operated within and so fully prepared to reject them. The ease with which she repudiated both centuries of Shakespearean dogma and decades of high school rom-com tropes continues to feel like something of a miracle.
But I think part of what made me miss the archetype was that 10 Things I Hate About You feels so much like a movie of its moment, of 1999. I suppose you could say that of any movie, but the quips, the clothing, and especially the music make it feel extremely of that year, when I was in high school. The most prominent themes in '10 Things I Hate About You' are love and relationships. It is clear through the brief but emotional lines of the poem that the speaker and her intended listener are not on the best of terms. They are struggling to figure out what kind of relationship they have and want to have. Explore our collection of motivational and famous quotes by authors you know and love.
"I hate the way you don't represent me and the way you steal our care," the poem, which has been shared by both the Planned Parenthood Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota Action Fund and the Planned Parenthood Votes Colorado & Votes New Mexico, begins. "I hate the way you're written by only men, though it's millions of women who will be left behind," it continues. Peruse paid listings of writing contests, conferences, workshops, editing services, calls for submissions, and more.
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It's barely possible to watch it without shedding at least a few tears — we can't imagine what it would be like to have to actually recite the poem. Standing in front of the late, great Heath Ledger and declaring your love in the most dramatic scene of what would go on to become one of the most loved teen-films of all time, is a pretty big deal. In its opening weekend, the film grossed $8.3 million in 2,271 theaters domestically (averaging $3,668 per venue), finishing number two at the box office behind The Matrix. It grossed a total of $38.2 million in the United States and Canada, and $15.3 million, in other territories, for $53.5 million worldwide.
The band Letters to Cleo 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. 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.
