This movie was the first to introduce a handful of stars like Julia Stiles, Heath Ledger, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Gabrielle Union all at the same time. Except for poor Larisa Oleynik, everybody's careers took off from this point. It is a good movie, for all that it's a high school retelling of The Taming of the Shrew. Kat Stratford (Julia Stiles) is a ball-busting braniac. Her sister Bianca (Larisa Oleynik) just wants to date the popular boy. Their father, an overworked Ob-Gyn, flat out refuses to let Bianca see anyone until Kat does. So, new guy Cameron (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) and his friend Michael (David Krumholtz) hatch a plan to get Kat out of the way by paying local bad boy Patrick (Heath Ledger) to woo her.
They handled all of the Shakespearean touches with tongue-in-cheek humor, which I always appreciate, from the high school being named Padua to Kat's best friend (Susan May Pratt) being obsessed with Romeo and Juliet. It's an easy, fun movie to watch.
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