"10 Things I Hate About You" is a 1999 teen romantic comedy film directed by Gil Junger and starring Julia Stiles, Heath Ledger, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Larisa Oleynik. The screenplay, written by Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith, is a modern retelling of William Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew" set in a Seattle high school.  When the sweet Bianca Stratford decides she wants to start dating, her paranoid father establishes a rule that she can date when her slightly older sister, Kat, gets a boyfriend of her own.