Then David Krumholtz plays Michael, Cameron's friend and co-conspirator, with just the right ooze of oleaginous self-promotion, while Andrew Keegan, as the pretty boy Joey Donner, who never saw a mirror he didn't adore, has enough radiant self-love to power a nuclear frigate. His timing is perfect his waltz among self-righteousness and self-pity and self-parody, delicious. In "10 Things" he's Kat and Bianca's father, an obstetrician, obsessed (from hard experience) with saving his daughters from the squalor of the unwanted pregnancy that he sees every day. Larry Miller has been around for years, usually as a grumpy schlumph. What's begun in cynicism soon turns to love, however, when Patrick realizes he could fall in a hard way for Kat, and Kat beneath her didactic heart begins to feel a thaw.Ĥ. The boy side of the Shakespearean equation is also neatly evoked: Besides the self-loving Joey (really a minor figure), the gist of the plot follows Cameron James (Joseph Gordon-Levitt of "3rd Rock From the Sun" in the movie's version of Lucentio) as he contrives to get brooding hunk Patrick Verona (Aussie Heath Ledger as the movie's gentleman of Verona, Petruchio) to take out Kat because Kat and Bianca's father has decreed that Bianca can't date till Kat does. Played brilliantly by Julia Stiles, Kat sees through everything from cheerleading to patrimony, patriotism and parochialism. ![]() Bianca (Larisa Oleynik) is perky and popular and smart enough to see quickly enough through the confabulations of Padua's reigning Lothario, Joey Donner her big sister, Kat (as in "Kiss Me Kat" it's that Kat), is angry at the system and a royal feminist pain in the backside of every human thing, especially male, at Padua. The Stratford sisters are beauties, yes, but people, oh yeah. It's a celebration of young American women, finding them smarter, tougher, shrewder, more rigorous, more persistent and more honest than any movie in many a moon. The bright young scriptwriters Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith throw their teenage characters through the dizzying plot pyrotechnics of the Bard the romantic subterfuges and ruses, the quickly shifting alliances but find a way to do it that both honors the original and smartly plays off the contemporary.Ģ. ![]() It's a variation on "The Taming of the Shrew," set at Padua High School in, I suppose, a suburban if imaginary Venice, although that's Seattle in the background. ![]() Here are 10 things I really like about "10 Things I Hate About You."ġ. "10 Things I Hate About You" is a modernized version of Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew."
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