10 Things I Hate About You 10 Things I Hate About You 10 Things I Hate About You is a 1999 American teen romantic comedy-drama film directed by Gil Junger and starring Julia Stiles, Heath Ledger, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Larisa Oleynik. The screenplay, written by Karen McCullah and Kirsten Smith, is a loose modernization of William Shakespeare's late-16th century comedy "The Taming of the Shrew", retold in a late-1990s American high school setting. In the story, new student Cameron (Gordon-Levitt) is smitten with Bianca Stratford (Oleynik) and, in order to get around her father's strict rules on dating, attempts to get bad boy Patrick (Ledger) to
7 Things most about her ex, with the seventh item being her frustration that despite his flaws, he makes her love him. Ben Ratliff of "The New York Times" noted that the list actually "runs to 8 to 11 things, depending on how you parse it". Henry Freedland of "Paste" magazine compared it to a similar list featured as a poem in the 1999 film "10 Things I Hate About You". In one verse, Cyrus asks for a sincere apology and states, "If you text it, I'll delete it", which Molly Lambert of "The New York Times" said "perfectly captur[es] our confusing