from Touchstone Pictures
Directed by
Gil
Junger
Starring
Heath
Ledger (Patrick)
Julia
Stiles (Kat)
Joseph
Gordon-Levitt (Cameron)
Larisa
Oleynik (Bianca)
David Krumholtz (Michael Eckman)
Andrew Keegan (Joey Donner)
Susan May Pratt (Mandella)
Gabrielle Union (Chastity)
Larry Miller (Walter Stratford)
Allison Janney (Ms. Perky)
David Leisure (Mr. Chapin)
Greg Jackson (Scruvy)
Kyle Cease (Bogey Lowenstein)
Terrence Houston (Derek)
Cameron Fraser (Trevor)
Eric Reidman (Audio Visual Guy)
Quinn Maixner (Beautiful Jock)
Demegio Kimbrough (Coffee Kid #1)
Todd Butler (Coffee Kid #2)
Gil Junger (Teacher)
Dennis Mosley (Cohort)
Nick Vukelic (Drugged Out Loser)
Bianca Kajlich (Coffee Girl #1)
Alisa Mackay (Coffee Girl #2)
Benjamin Laurence (Wimpy Loser)
Aidan Kennedy (Laughing Loser)
Jesse Dyer (Screaming Loser)
Jelani Quinn (Crying Loser)
Mark Berry (Bartender)
Joshua Thorpe (Jock)
Heather Taylor (Drunken Girl)
Brian Hood (Clem)
Sasha Barrese (Heather)
Aaron Therol (Detention Student #2)
Alice Evans (Girl)
Travis Muller (Cowboy)
Toby Lawless (Adoring Boy)
Laura Kenny (Judith)
Written by
Karen Lutz
Kirsten Smith
William
Shakespeare
(play The Taming of the Shrew)
Original music by
Richard
Gibbs
Rated 
(for crude sex-related humor and dialogue, alcohol and drug-related
scenes, all involving teens) |
 Gil
Junger directs this modern version of Shakespeare's Taming
of the Shrew, set in high school. A cocky senior, Patrick
(Heath Ledger), is "hired" to date a pretty student,
Kat (Julia Stiles), only to fall in love with the shrew. Joseph
Gordon-Levitt will play Cameron, and Larisa Oleynik will play
Bianca. Allison Janney, Larry Miller and Andrew Keegan will also
costar.
Meet the Stratford sisters: pretty and popular Bianca (Oleynik),
a sophomore doomed to go through high school without ever having
a date; and Kat (Stiles), her older sibling, an ill-tempered
harridan whose acerbic wit is matched only by her steadfast determination
to alienate any guy who might be remotely interested in her.
Unfortunately, strict rules in the Stratford household forbid
Bianca from having a boyfriend until her odious sister has one
of her own -- a situation that seems highly improbable considering
the notorious Kat has chosen the role of social rebel at Padua
High. Bianca's desperation for romance turns into a convoluted
scheme to match Kat with her male equivalent -- a teen whose
reputation is so infamous, Kat might just rise to the challenge
and find him worthy of her concealed charms. Mating mayhem ensues
when Patrick Verona (Ledger) -- a sullen senior with a reputed
criminal past -- is bribed by Bianca's wannabe boyfriend (Keegan)
to woo and win Kat, in order to clear the way for Bianca to begin
dating.
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