<P> 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 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 ( Oleynik ) and , in order to get around her father 's strict rules on dating , attempts to get bad boy Patrick ( Ledger ) to date Bianca 's ill - tempered sister , Kat ( Stiles ) . The film is titled after a poem written by Kat about her bittersweet romance with Patrick . Much of the filming took place in the Seattle metropolitan area , with many scenes shot at Stadium High School in Tacoma . </P>
<P> 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 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 ( Oleynik ) and , in order to get around her father 's strict rules on dating , attempts to get bad boy Patrick ( Ledger ) to date Bianca 's ill - tempered sister , Kat ( Stiles ) . The film is titled after a poem written by Kat about her bittersweet romance with Patrick . Much of the filming took place in the Seattle metropolitan area , with many scenes shot at Stadium High School in Tacoma . </P>
who directed 10 things i hate about you
who directed 10 things i hate about you
Gil Junger
Gil Junger