10 Things I Hate About You
- Alternative title
- Ten Things I Hate About You
- Synopsis
- What would happen if you made a boring old set text into a high-school romcom?. Junger’s adaptation, set in a suburban Seattle high school is ‘smart and sassy, a brightly contemporary retelling of The Taming of the Shrew’ (The Guardian, 2019).
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Film; Multimedia; Video
- Technical information
- Colour / Sound
- Year of release
- 1999
- Duration
- 97 mins
Credits
- Director
- Gil Junger
- Producer
- Andrew Lazar
- Cinematographer
- Mark Irwin
- Writer
- Kirsten Smith
- Screenplay
- Karen McCullah Lutz
- Music
- Richard Gibbs
- Art Direction
- Gilbert Wong
- Cast
Julia Stiles Katarina ‘Kat’ Stratford (Katherina) Heath Ledger Patrick ‘Pat’ Verona (Petruchio) Larisa Oleynik Bianca Stratford (Bianca) Joseph Gordon-Levitt Cameron James (Lucentio)
Additional Details
- Theatre
- harman
- Production type
- Fiction Films
- Plays
- Taming of the Shrew, The
- Subjects
- Drama
- Keywords
- film adaptations; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Teen movie
Notes
- Notes
- Available on BoB: https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/ondemand/index.php/prog/0017C8AF?bcast=114697393
Budget $16,000,000 estimated. - Figures
- $38,176,108 Gross (2005) Box Office Guru
- Reviews
- For an analysis of the marketing campaign behind the film see Emma French, Selling Shakespeare to Hollywood: The Marketing of Filmed Shakespeare Adaptations from 1999 into the New Millennium (Hatfield: University of Hertfordshire Press, 2006), pp116-122. For a detailed account of the precise Shakespeare references see Lanier, Douglas ‘Film Spin-Offs and Citations’ in Burt, Richard (ed). Shakespeares After Shakespeares: an Encyclopedia of the Bard in Mass Media and Popular Culture. 2 vols. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2006. (p. 313-4, entry 1326).
Online Availability
- Online URL
- https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/ondemand/index.php/prog/0017C8AF?bcast=114697393
- Online format
- Streamed
Production Company
Distributor
- Name
Learning on Screen Off-Air Recording Back-up Service
- services@bufvc.ac.uk
- Web
- http://bufvc.ac.uk/tvandradio/offair External site opens in new window
- Phone
- 020 7393 1514
- Fax
- 020 7393 1555
- Address
- For Learning on Screen Members only
77 Wells Street
London
W1T 3QJ
Distributor (Sale)
- Name
Retail outlets
How to cite this record
Shakespeare, "10 Things I Hate About You". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/shakespeare/search/index.php/title/17 (Accessed 19 Feb 2026)