10 Things I Hate About You 🎥 1999 Movie Info

Plot Summary

Cameron James, a new student at Padua High School in the Seattle area, immediately becomes smitten with beautiful and popular sophomore Bianca Stratford. Geeky Michael Eckman warns him that she is vapid and conceited, and that her overprotective single father Walter, an obstetrician worried about teenage pregnancy, won’t allow her or her shrewish older sister Kat, a senior, to date until they graduate. Frustrated by Bianca’s insistence and Kat’s rebelliousness, Walter declares that Bianca may date only when Kat does, knowing that Kat’s unsocial attitude will make that difficult.

When Cameron asks Bianca out, she informs him of her father’s new rule and suggests he find someone willing to date Kat; unbeknownst to Cameron, Bianca wants to date affluent senior Joey Donner. Cameron selects the Australian “bad boy” Patrick Verona. Michael convinces Joey to pay Patrick to ask out Kat. Patrick agrees, but Kat rebuffs his first few advances. After Michael and Cameron probe Bianca for information on Kat’s preferences, Patrick begins to win Kat’s interest. She goes to a party with him, enabling Bianca and her best friend Chastity Church to tag along.

At the party, Kat becomes upset upon seeing Bianca with Joey, and responds by getting drunk. Patrick attends to her, and she starts to open up to him, expressing her interest in forming a band. When Kat attempts to kiss him, Patrick pulls away, causing her to depart, infuriated and embarrassed. Meanwhile, Bianca upsets Cameron by ignoring him for Joey, but she realizes that Joey is shallow and self-absorbed. When she asks Cameron to drive her home, he calls her selfish for the way she treated him and says his feelings for her are true; she kisses him in response. Joey pays Patrick more money to take Kat to the prom so he can take Bianca.

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