10 Things I Hate About You [Region 2] | ![10 Things I Hate About You [Region 2]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51DZ79AD56L._SL500_.jpg)
| Director: Gil Junger
Actors: Heath Ledger, Julia Stiles, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Larisa Oleynik, David Krumholtz
Category: DVD
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Rating:  453 reviews
Sales Rank: 301408
Format: Anamorphic, Full Screen, NTSC
Languages: English (Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired), French (Unknown), English (Unknown), Italian (Unknown), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Italian (Subtitled), Hungarian (Subtitled), Dutch (Subtitled)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 2
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Running Time: 97 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 3459379406116
ASIN: B00005AMRB
Theatrical Release Date: March 31, 1999
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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 counselor secretly writing a trashy romance novel. --Mark Englehart
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 A John Hughes Sort of Movie March 20, 2010
Celia Hayes (San Antonio, SA)
Really, "10 Things" was so dry, witty - and yet so sharply observant about high school and the denizens within, it's almost as if it were another John Hughes movie, ten years after. Now it's another ten years after that, and it has aged marvelously well, all things considered; even the minor characters are sharply drawn, and if not actually sympathetic, they are amusing. One of the best qualities about "10 Things" is that the adult characters are also real people, not just cardboard outlines and sappy caricatures: they are as sharp and finely drawn as the teenagers - especially Alison Janney as the no-nonsense guidance counselor at Padua High, who is writing a bodice-ripping romance in between counseling sessions, and the lovingly over-protective father of teenage daughters, played by Larry Miller.
The plot setup is lifted wholesale from Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew" - two sisters, Bianca, (Larisa Oleynik) sweet and pretty, and her older sister Kat (Julia Stiles) being a forbiddingly hostile and sour-tempered shrew. Cameron, the new boy at Padua High (Joseph Gordon Levitt) has fallen for Bianca - who may not go out on a date unless her sister does the same. Not discouraged, Cameron attempts to fix up Kat with a slightly mysterious, brooding bad boy, Patrick Verona (Heath Ledger) . . . and it pretty much plays out, among the modern high school milieu of various sub-groups, which are hilariously outlined by Cameron's new friend and assistant plotter, Michael (David Khumoltz). Just as I remember from high school, there are the brains, the social set, the stoners, the gangsters, the bad boys, all of them uneasily coexisting. Sweet, funny, timeless and with a million things going on in the corners and in the background, "10 Things" can bear watching, repeatedly - like John Hughes movies.
Extras are limited to a single fairly well organized documentary, "10 Things I Hate About You 10 Years Later," which includes - among the cast and writer interviews - some footage of Heath Ledger's screen test.
Great Movie February 21, 2010
Jacqueline M. Muehlbauer (carrboro, nc)
I actually had to return this movie because I already owned it. But I love the movie and the digital copy is really good for trips!
Destin To Be A Classic February 6, 2010
Jon Williams
Heath Ledger's first film and it's superb! This is bay far one of the best chick flick comedies I've ever seen. I owned the DVD before I bought the blu-ray. There's really not much more for extras but does look great in 1080P. (:
 Great teen film, they don't make em like this anymore January 20, 2010
Alexander M. Walker (Chicago, IL USA)
Imagine if you could take a course on teenage films, that recently critically derided genre that seems to have become little more than a contest of who can make the cleverest double entendre or the grossest sight gag. Instead of starting way back in the beach musical era, we'll use a closer albeit equally forgotten tradition the likes of which John Hughes was a master. Sixteen Candles, Better of Dead, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, and so many more based their plots around common high school issues like prom, popularity and truancy. If you want to know where the turning point was, 10 Things I Hate About You might be the best place to start.
Hitting theaters four months before the film that started the franchise-that-won't-die (American Pie), 10 Things was the perfect mix of the two. It had a very classic story borrowed from Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew as well as the comedy that came from that story originally, however it also brought something new to the table: that theme of rampant sexuality which had recently been allowed to blossom into a publicly recognized part of youth culture (before it was acknowledged but mentioned in oddly hushed filmic tones). It has all the common themes of a teen movie and the necessary laughs to put in the top echelons of teen films.
New kid in school Cameron (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) has all the problems you'd associate with a teenager in his position. He doesn't really know anyone besides his school-assigned guide Michael (David Krumholtz) and the most beautiful girl in school, the virginal Bianca (Larisa Oleynik), seems taken with the self-absorbed teen model Joey (Andrew Keegan). But that's not really the obstacle standing between Cameron and Biancal, that would be too "underdog wins the day" easy. Instead, Bianca's father (a rather hilarious turn by Larry Miller) has forbidden her to date until her older sister Kat (Julia Stiles) does. At first it may seem nothing serious, but Kat has a bit of a reputation for being a hot-tempered shrew (what up, Shakespeare?). Cameron devises a plan to get the meanest, edgiest guy in school, Patrick (Heath Ledger), to change his ways and make Kat fall in love with him so Bianca will be free for romancing.
The script has a lot going for it and director Gil Junger did it justice - but he had help. Taking into account the modern reputations of both Joseph Gordon-Levitt, the late Heath Ledger, and Julia Stiles (whom, for my money, was pretty good in the Bourne series) and it's not too hard to understand how such a young cast was able to rise to the occasion. Add in the talented and hilarious adult cast of Miller, Daryl Mitchell as the funny English teacher, and Allison Janney as the student counselor and aspiring sex novelist and the film seems to have a solid laugh in every scene.
Compared to the teen films which followed it, the sexual references of 10 Things I Hate About You seem diabolically subtle in comparison. Sex jokes seem to pass under the radar with little more than a cocked head from a character to indicate that anything was wrong at all with the words just spoken. The direction, writing and acting are all top-notch for the genre and it's one of the few you can legitimately share with whole family and not squirm because of ostentatious displays of vulgarity.
Something I've always enjoyed about this film is how some of the scenes are staged. Gil Junger made an effort to keep some of the staging as it would appear in a stageplay and it serves the film quite well.
Blu-ray Bonus Features
It's the film's tenth anniversary and accordingly there's a 10-year after retrospective with new footage featuring director Gil Junger and co-writers Kirsten Smith and Karen McCullah Lutz. Ledger, Stiles, Krumholtz and Gordon-Levitt also appear in the piece but in clips recorded when the film was first made. For fans of the film, the 35 minutes might feel too short, but for casual viewers it keeps a brisk pace and never really seems to drag on. It's definitely worth a look. With that said, it's really the only extra on the disc besides a commentary (which has lots of overlap with what Junger says in the retrospective).
1 Thing I Hate ... about the 10th Anniversary release! January 14, 2010
reaganfan (California)
OK, first of all I want to start with this: This movie is one of my all time favorite movies. PERIOD. So five stars is what it gets even with the complaint I am about to mention. Julia, Heath, heck everyone is perfectly cast, and writing and directing are perfection. Music = Genius. All that said I already had this DVD since day one of the original release. But I prayed for a Criterion release, unrealistic though that was, or OK, so maybe just a "Special Edition" with deleted scenes and a making of feature. Along comes this new 10th Anniversary release announcement and I am beyond excited. Jump to now... sigh.... "Making of" featurette: CHECK. Deleted scenes: huh? Where? No? arrgghhhh!!!!! I searched everywhere. Every menu. Not even an "easter egg" to be found. So I come here and see a recent review pointing out that the "deleted scenes" were actually part of the "making of" featurette!!! So actual full on deleted scenes, maybe even with director's commentary?: NEGATIVE!!! To paraphrase Yoda: feeling ripped off beyond belief I am. So great movie and a load of horse hockey for extras as listed. Again... sigh...
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