The 25 Best Back-to-School Movies, From 'Mean Girls' to 'The Breakfast Club'
10 Things I Hate About You
If Fast Times at Ridgemont High and Sixteen Candles were responsible for introducing 80s audiences to some of the best actors of their generation, then Gil Junger's 1999 comedy 10 Things I Hate About You did the same for a new generation, providing breakout roles for Julia Stiles, Heath Ledger, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and, to a lesser extent, Larisa Oleynik. The late 90s high school setting for a modern take on Shakespeare's mid-16th century play "The Taming of the Shrew" introduced American audiences to the Australian heartthrob Ledger and offered up the best feature film outing to that point in Gordon-Levitt's career; JGL was smack in the middle of his run on the hit TV comedy series Third Rock from the Sun at the time.
10 Things has a clever twist on the typical high school romantic comedy, thanks in huge part to Shakespeare, of course. When a new student (Gordon-Levitt) falls for a beautiful girl (Oleynik), he finds he can only win her father's approval to date her by tricking the school's bad boy (Ledger) into dating her older, shrewish sister (Stiles). It's a great example of how timeless Shakespeare's work really is and how modern takes on centuries-old stories can engage a new generation of audiences.
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