10 Things I Hate About You

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10 Things I Hate About You

Promotional poster
Directed by Gil Junger
Produced by Andrew Lazar
Karen McCullah Lutz
Written by
Kirsten Smith
Julia Stiles
Heath Ledger
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Starring Larisa Oleynik
David Krumholtz
Andrew Keegan
Larry Miller
Music by Richard Gibbs
Cinematography Mark Irwin
Editing by O. Nicholas Brown
Distributed by Touchstone Pictures
Release date(s) March 31, 1999
Running time 99 min.
Country United States
Language English
Budget $16 million
Gross revenue $53,478,166

10 Things I Hate About You is a 1999 American teen romantic comedy film. It is
directed by Gil Junger and stars Heath Ledger, Julia Stiles, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Larisa
Oleynik, David Krumholtz, and Larry Miller. The screenplay was written by Karen
McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith.

The film, a a modernization of Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew," is titled after a
poem written by the film's female lead to describe her bittersweet romance with the male
lead. The film was released March 31, 1999, and it was a breakout success for stars Stiles
and Ledger.[1][2][3] The film marks the motion picture directing debut of Junger, who
previously directed only for television.

Contents
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 1 Plot
 2 Cast
 3 Relation to Taming of the Shrew
 4 Production
 5 Release and reception
o 5.1 Box office
o 5.2 Critics
o 5.3 Awards and nominations
 6 Television series
 7 Soundtrack
 8 See also
 9 References

 10 External links

[edit] Plot
Cameron James (Gordon-Levitt), a new student at Padua Stadium High School, is given a
tour of the school by Michael Eckman (Krumholtz), an A.V. geek. During the tour,
Cameron notices the beautiful and popular Bianca Stratford (Oleynik) and he is
immediately smitten with her. Michael warns Cameron that Bianca is shallow and
conceited, and that her father does not allow her to date. However, Michael does inform
Cameron that Bianca is looking for a French tutor.

At the Stratford residence, Bianca's outcast older sister, Kat (Stiles), is in conflict with
their overprotective father (Miller), who wants Kat to attend college nearby despite her
acceptance to Sarah Lawrence College. Bianca is also fighting with their father regarding
his strict no-dating rule. Kat's aversion to dating prompts their father to come up with a
new rule, to Bianca's fury: Bianca can only date if Kat is also dating.

Cameron starts tutoring Bianca (despite knowing little French himself). After Cameron
makes a failed attempt to ask her out on a date, she informs him of her father’s rule. This
motivates Cameron and Michael to find a boy who is willing to date Kat.

Cameron suggests Patrick Verona (Ledger), another outcast who is just as ill-tempered as
Kat. Cameron tries asking Patrick for his assistance, but Patrick scares him off. Michael
suggests that Joey Donner (Keegan), an affluent student who also wants to date Bianca,
pay Patrick to take Kat out. Patrick agrees, but Kat wants nothing to do with him. After a
little effort, Patrick gets Kat to attend a party with him, but rejects her advances, leaving
her angered and unwilling to talk to him. Eventually he wins her over with a performance
of "Can't Take My Eyes Off You" in front of her entire soccer team. They become a
couple, but Kat remains unaware that Patrick was paid to date her. Meanwhile, Cameron
continues to pursue Bianca, but she remains interested in Joey, unaware that he plans to
use her only for sex.

Bianca tries to convince her father to let her attend the prom with Joey, but he refuses
because Kat is not going to the prom. When Bianca confronts Kat, it is revealed that Kat
previously dated Joey and they slept together once since "everyone was doing it". She
tells Bianca that her feelings of isolation from her fellow students dated from that
incident and that she would never again do anything just because it was the popular thing
to do.

Bianca and Kat end up going to the prom with Cameron and Patrick, respectively. Joey is
furious to learn that Bianca has gone to the prom with Cameron, and confronts Patrick
about the "arrangement" in front of Kat. Kat is very angry at Patrick when she discovers
the truth and she leaves him at the prom. Joey subsequently confronts Cameron about
manipulating the "deal" for himself and starts violently attacking him, but Bianca
punches Joey numerous times for using her, for hurting Kat's feelings, and for punching
Cameron. Bianca and Cameron share a kiss and leave Joey lying on the floor in pain.

The next morning, Kat and Bianca's relationship appears to have improved drastically as
Bianca attempts to comfort her older sister. Their father allows Kat to go to Sarah
Lawrence College; she is extremely grateful and hugs him with happiness. Later at
school, Kat reads a poem which she wrote for English class, titled "10 Things I Hate
About You", revealing her true feelings for Patrick. He is shown to be touched by her
revelation. After school, Kat finds a guitar in her car that Patrick bought her with the
money that Joey paid him, and he admits that he messed up his and Joey's deal by falling
for her. Kat forgives Patrick and the two reconcile with a kiss.

[edit] Cast
 Heath Ledger as Patrick Verona, described by a The New York Times reviewer as a
"rough-edged outsider" and "teenage rebel" who hangs out at a pool hall, smokes
 cigarettes, and drinks. He speaks in a partly Australian dialect (often lapsing into
American) because he lived in Australia until he was ten.
 Julia Stiles as Katarina "Kat" Stratford, the "shrew" in the film. Kat is a proud,
unsociable, nonconforming feminist who listens to Riot Grrrl music and reads
books such as The Bell Jar. She is against dating and often "sneers at the idiocy of
teenage social life". The New York Times called this "a breath of fresh air in the
stifling materialistic atmosphere of today's Hollywood teenage movies". She was
accepted into Sarah Lawrence College, which her father initially refused to let her
attend.
 Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Cameron James, who, like Patrick, pursues a Stratford
sister. In contrast to Patrick, who is seen as intimidating and manly, Cameron is
seen as sweet and delicate. He is a new kid, has a father in the U.S. Army, and
befriends Michael and Patrick.
 Larisa Oleynik as Bianca Stratford, Kat's younger sister and foil; seen as a "Valley
girl" type, she wears designer clothes and is popular in school, though she
eventually falls for geeky new kid Cameron as opposed to the school's most
popular guy, Joey.
 David Krumholtz as Michael Eckman, an audiovisual geek who is delegated the
task of showing Cameron around.
 Andrew Keegan as Joey Donner, a male model, who formerly bedded Kat and
makes a bet that he can do the same with Bianca.
 Larry Miller as Dr. Walter Stratford, an OB/GYN and single father. He is an
extremely overprotective father, believing that his daughters will have sex, do
drugs and drink as soon as they aren't under his supervision, though he is incorrect
about this for the most part.
 Susan May Pratt as Mandella, a Shakespeare aficionado whom Michael, dressed
as William Shakespeare, takes to the prom. She is Kat's best friend.
 Gabrielle Union as Chastity Church, Bianca's best friend.
 Daryl Mitchell as Mr. Morgan, the African-American English literature teacher.
He's an imposing teacher who, for the most part, seems to keep his classroom
under control.
 Allison Janney as Ms. Perky, the school's guidance counselor and a writer of
erotic literature. She makes many sexual comments and innuendos throughout the
film.
 David Leisure as Mr. Chapin, the detention teacher and the girls' soccer coach.
 Greg Jackson as "Scurvy", one of Patrick's friends.
 Kyle Cease as Bogey Lowenstien, a golf enthusiast (hence his nickname, Bogey)
and member of a clique of aspiring MBA's.
 Kay Hanley and Michael Eisenstein, members of Letters to Cleo.
 Monique Powell and Brian Mashburn, members of Save Ferris.

[edit] Relation to Taming of the Shrew

The movie contains several references to William Shakespeare's The Taming of the
Shrew, on which the plot is loosely based. The first reference in the film to this fact is that
Michael calls Kat a shrew in the beginning of the film. Also, the high school's name is
Padua, and Padua is the Italian city where the Shakespeare play is set. The main
characters are given names similar to their counterparts in the play. Shakespeare's
Petruchio from Verona is the movie's Patrick Verona. The sisters Katharina ("Kate") and
Bianca Minola become Katarina ("Kat") and Bianca Stratford (Stratford being
Shakespeare's city of birth). Lastly, in the play, Bianca is successfully wooed by Lucentio
as he disguises himself as a tutor named Cambio, from which comes the name Cameron
and the plot device of becoming her French tutor. Also in the play, the father reacts to his
younger daughter's many suitors by stipulating that Kate must be married before Bianca
can be. However, the movie takes a different direction from the play in that Kat and
Patrick's relationship in the movie is much more egalitarian, and Patrick's method of
wooing involves actually being nice to Kat, and the two end up together happily, whereas
in the play Petruchio is consistently tyrannical toward Katharina, and while they do end
up together, it is suggested that Kate only listens to her husband out of a sense of fear.

[edit] Production
Exterior shots of principal photography were filmed in Tacoma and Seattle, Washington.
The high school's exterior was shot at Tacoma's Stadium High School. Bianca and Kat's
home in the film is in North Tacoma. A brief scene takes place at the Fremont Troll in
Seattle, Washington. Katarina and Patrick's date takes place at Gas Works Park in Seattle,
Washington. The biker bar that Patrick is shown going into is the Buckaroo Tavern in
Fremont, Seattle. The exterior shot was taken at Alki Beach.[4] The Padua High School
Prom was filmed at Seattle's Century Ballroom as well as at the restored Paramount
Theatre. The prom sequence was shot over three 90+°F days in Seattle.[5] The store in
which Kat picks out her dream guitar was a Ted Brown Music store in Tacoma, but has
since been made into part of the Tacoma School of the Arts.

Costume designer Kim Tillman designed original dresses for Larisa Oleynik and Julia
Stiles as well as the period outfits for Susan May Pratt and David Krumholtz. Gabrielle
Union's snakeskin prom dress is a Betsey Johnson design. Heath Ledger and Joseph
Gordon-Levitt's vintage tuxes came from Isadora's in Seattle.[5]

The primary tagline is an allusion to a poem written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning from
her Sonnets from the Portuguese collection. ("How do I loathe thee? Let me count the
ways.") Another tagline is a spoof from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet ("Romeo, Oh
Romeo, Get Out Of My Face.") and another is a line from The Taming of the Shrew that is
spoken in the film by Cameron ("I burn, I pine, I perish!"). The original script was
finalized on November 12, 1997.[6]

[edit] Release and reception

[edit] Box office

In its opening weekend, the film grossed $8,330,681 in 2,271 theaters in the United States
and Canada, averaging $3,668 per venue, and ranking number two at the box office
(lagging far behind The Matrix). It grossed a total of $38,178,166 in the United States and
Canada and $15,300,000 in other territories, about $53,500,000 worldwide. The film had
an estimated budget of $16 million and is considered a moderate financial and critical
success. On October 12, 1999, the Region 1 DVD was released. In the box office, the
film is number ten in teen romance, 18th in high school comedies, and ranked 96th in
romantic comedies.[7]

[edit] Critics

The film received generally positive feedback from critics. Geoff Andrew from Time Out
praised the film's leads, stating "Stiles grows into her character, and Ledger is effortlessly
charming".[8] Roger Ebert gave the film two and a half stars out of four, claiming "I liked
the movie's spirit, the actors and some of the scenes. The music, much of it by the band
Letters to Cleo, is subtle and inventive while still cheerful".[9] Brad Laidman from Film
Threat said the film was "Pure of heart and perfectly executed".[10] Ron Wells, another
critic from Film Threat expressed "Of all the teen films released this year, this one is, by
far, the best".[11]

[edit] Awards and nominations

In the year the film was released, the lead actors Gordon-Levitt, Stiles, and Oleynik each
received Young Star Award nominations for Best Actor/Actress in a Comedy Film. The
movie was nominated for five Teen Choice Awards: Film Breakout Performance (Stiles),
Film Choice Comedy, Film Funniest Scene (featuring Krumholtz), Film Sexiest Love
Scene (featuring Stiles and Ledger), and Soundtrack of the Year. More notably, the film's
casting directors Marcia Ross and Donna Morong won "Best Casting for Feature Film,
Comedy" at the Casting Society of America in 1999. In 2000, Stiles won the CFCA
Award for "Most Promising Actress" for her role as Kat Stratford (tied with Émilie
Dequenne in Rosetta) and an MTV Movie Award for Breakthrough Female Performance.
The same year, Ledger was nominated for Best Musical Performance for the song "Can't
Take My Eyes Off You."

[edit] Television series

Main article: 10 Things I Hate About You (TV series)

On October 8, 2008, ABC Family greenlit the pilot episode of a new half-hour, single-
camera comedy series based on 10 Things I Hate About You. Larry Miller is the only
actor from the film to reprise his role in the television series. The director of the film, Gil
Junger, also directed many of the episodes including the pilot while the film's music
composer, Richard Gibbs, also returned to do the show's music. The series was adapted
and produced by Carter Covington.[12] The show premiered on July 7, 2009.[13]

[edit] Soundtrack
Main article: 10 Things I Hate About You (soundtrack)

The soundtrack was released on April 6, 1999 by Hollywood Records. The soundtrack
includes music from artists including Sister Hazel, Letters to Cleo, Save Ferris, George
Clinton, and Semisonic.

[edit] See also

 List of American films of 1999

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Walter Stratford: My insurance does not cover PMS!
Kat Stratford: Well then, tell them I had a seizure.
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Bianca: Has the fact that you're completely psycho managed to escape your attention?
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Walter Stratford: Hello, Katarina. Make anyone cry today?

Kat Stratford: Sadly, no. But it's only 4:30.
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Cameron: I burn, I pine, I perish.

[Lucentio's line from The Taming of the Shrew Act I Scene 1]
Michael: Of course you do. You know, she's beautiful and deep, I'm sure.
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Michael: Sweet love, renew thy force.

[Start of Shakespeare's Sonnet LVI]
Patrick: Hey! Don't say shit like that to me. People can hear you.
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Chastity: I know you can be overwhelmed, and you can be underwhelmed, but can you
ever just be whelmed?
Bianca: I think you can in Europe.
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Bianca: You're asking me out? That's so cute! What's your name again?
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Walter Stratford: I'm down, I've got the 411, and you are not going out and getting jiggy
with some boy, I don't care how dope his ride is. My momma didn't raise no foo'!
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Walter Stratford: Do you know what happens at proms?

Bianca: Yes. We'll dance, we'll kiss, we'll come home. It's not quite the crisis situation
you imagine.
Walter Stratford: Kissing? That's what you think happens? I've got news for you.
Kissing isn't what keeps me up to my elbows in placenta all day long.
Bianca: Can we, for two seconds, ignore the fact that you're severely unhinged and
discuss my need for a night of teenage normalcy?
Walter Stratford: What's normal? Those damn... Dawson's river kids sleeping in each
other's beds and what not?
Bianca: Daddy that is so not...
Walter Stratford: I've got news for you. I'm down, I've got the 411, and you are not
going out and getting jiggy with some boy, I don't care how dope his ride is. Mamma
didn't raise no fool.
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Bianca: You don't buy black lingerie unless you want someone to see it.
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Kat Stratford: You're not as vile as I thought you were.

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Patrick: What is it with this chick? She have beer-flavored nipples?

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Bianca: There's a difference between like and love. Because, I like my Skechers, but I
love my Prada backpack.
Chastity: But I love my Skechers.
Bianca: That's because you don't have a Prada backpack.
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Kat Stratford: Remove head from sphincter, then drive!

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Kat Stratford: I hate the way you talk to me, and the way you cut your hair. I hate the
way you drive my car. I hate it when you stare. I hate your big dumb combat boots, and
the way you read my mind. I hate you so much it makes me sick; it even makes me
rhyme. I hate it, I hate the way you're always right. I hate it when you lie. I hate it when
you make me laugh, even worse when you make me cry. I hate it when you're not around,
and the fact that you didn't call. But mostly I hate the way I don't hate you. Not even
close, not even a little bit, not even at all.
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Michael: I have a dick on my face, don't I?

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Patrick: Someone still has her panties in a twist.

Kat Stratford: Don't, for one minute, think that you had any effect whatsoever on my
panties.
Patrick: Then what did I have an effect on?
Kat Stratford: Other than my upchuck reflex, nothing.
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Michael: The shit hath hitith the fan... ith.

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Cameron: I learned French for you!

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Walter Stratford: Where's your sister going?

Kat Stratford: She's meeting some bikers. Big ones. Full of sperm.
Walter Stratford: Funny.
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Walter Stratford: [Bianca and Chastity are sneaking past Bianca's father] Shoulda used
the window!
Bianca: Hi Daddy!
Walter Stratford: Hi... where're we going?
Bianca: Well, if you must know... a small study group of friends.
Walter Stratford: Otherwise known as an orgy?
Chastity: Mr. Stratford, it's just a party!
Walter Stratford: And hell is just a sauna.
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Ms. Perky: People perceive you as somewhat...

Kat Stratford: Tempestuous?
Ms. Perky: "Heinous bitch" is the term used most often.
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Kat Stratford: You don't always have to be who they want you to be, you know?
Bianca: I happen to like being adored, thank you!
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Kat Stratford: Romantic? Hemingway? He was an abusive, alcoholic misogynist who

squandered half of his life hanging around Picasso trying to nail his leftovers.
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Bianca: Where did you come from? Planet "Loser"?
Kat Stratford: As opposed to Planet "Look At Me, Look At Me"?
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Walter Stratford: This morning, I delivered a set of twins to a fifteen-year-old girl, do

you know what she said to me?
Bianca: "I'm a crack-whore who should have made my skeazy boyfriend wear a
condom"?
Walter Stratford: Close, but no. She said, "I should have listened to my father".
Bianca: She did not.
Walter Stratford: Well, that's what should would have said if she wasn't so doped up!
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Patrick: Not a big talker, huh?

Kat Stratford: Depends on the topic. My fenders don't really whip me into a verbal
frenzy.
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Patrick: It's not everyday you find a girl who'll flash someone to get you out of
detention.
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Patrick: Ooh, see that, there. Who needs affection when I have blind hatred?
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Patrick: Leave it to you to use big words when you're smashed.

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Kat Stratford: You're not surrounded by your usual cloud of smoke.

Patrick: I know, I quit. Apparently they're bad for you.
Kat Stratford: You think?
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Patrick: Some asshole paid me to take out this really great girl.
Kat Stratford: Is that right?
Patrick: Yeah, but I screwed up. I, um, I fell for her.
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Cameron: She never wanted me. She wanted Joey the whole time.
Patrick: Cameron, do you like the girl?
Cameron: Yeah.
Patrick: Yeah, and is she worth all this trouble?
Cameron: Well, I thought she was, but you know, I...
Patrick: Well, she is or she isn't. See first of all, Joey is not half the man you are.
Secondly, don't let anyone ever make you feel like you don't deserve what you want. Go
for it.
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Ms. Perky: So, I hear you were terrorizing Mr. Morgan's class... again.
Kat Stratford: Expressing my opinion is not a terrorist action.
Ms. Perky: The way you expressed your opinion to Bobby Ridgeway? By the way, his
testicle retrieval operation went quite well, in case you're interested.
Kat Stratford: I still maintain that he kicked himself in the balls.
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Joey: Mr. Morgan, is there any chance we could get Kat to take her Midol *before* she
comes to class?
Mr. Morgan: Someday, you gonna get bitch-slapped and I'm not gonna do a thing to stop
it.
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Patrick: Was that a yes?

Kat Stratford: No.
Patrick: Well, then, was that a no?
Kat Stratford: No.
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Cameron: Wow, is this what a bar looks like?

[reaches into a jar]
Michael: Don't touch anything! You may get hepatitis.
[they find Patrick drinking and smoking]
Patrick: So what have ya got for me?
Cameron: A little insight into a very complicated girl.
Michael: Excuse me, uh, just one question before we start. Should you be drinking
alcohol when you don't have a liver?
Patrick: [confused] What?
Michael: Nothing. Nothing.
Cameron: Alright, uh, first thing, Kat hates smokers.
[slowly removes Patrick's cigarette]
Patrick: So, you're telling me I'm a... non-smoker.
Michael: Yes. Well, just for now.
Cameron: And, um, and here's another problem. Bianca said that Kat likes pretty guys.
Patrick: [looks confused and slowly rises] Are you telling me I'm not a pretty guy?
Michael: H-He's very pretty. He's a gorgeous guy.
Cameron: Yeah. I-I just wasn't sure. I didn't know.
Michael: [gives him two thumbs up] You're a gorgeous guy.
Cameron: [Patrick sits back down] Alright, uh, yeah, okay, here's this, uh... Likes: Thai
food, feminist pros and angry girl music of the Indie Rock persuasion. Here's a list of the
CDs that she has in her room.
Patrick: So, I'm supposed to buy her some noodles and a book and sit around listening to
chicks who can't play their instruments, right?
Michael: Have you ever been to Club Skunk?
Cameron: Her favorite band's playing there tomorrow night.
Patrick: I can't be seen at Club Skunk. All right?
Cameron: But she'll be there, she's got tickets.
Michael: Hey listen, assail your ears for one night.
Cameron: She has a pair of black underwear, if that helps.
Michael: [laughing cooly] Couldn't hurt, right?
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[when asked if he'll date Katarina]

Wimpy Loser: Maybe if we were the last two people alive, and there were no sheep. Are
there sheep?
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Ms. Perky: Nine schools in ten years. My, my. Army brat?
Cameron: Yeah, my-my dad is, uh...
Ms. Perky: That's enough. I'm sure you won't find Padua any different than your old
schools. Same little asswipe shit-for-brains everywhere.
Cameron: Excuse me? D-Did you just say... Am I in the right office?
Ms. Perky: Not any more you're not. I've got deviants to see and a novel to finish. Now
scoot. Scoot!
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Ms. Perky: Patrick Verona. I see we're making our visits a weekly ritual.
Patrick: Only so we can have these moments together. Should I, uh, hit the lights?
Ms. Perky: Oh, very clever, kangaroo boy. Says here you exposed yourself in the
cafeteria?
Patrick: I was joking with the lunch lady. It was a bratwurst.
Ms. Perky: Bratwurst? Aren't we the optimist? Next time, keep it in your pouch, okay?
Scoot!
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Cameron: Just 'cause you're beautiful, that doesn't mean that you can treat people like
they don't matter.
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Mr. Morgan: I know how difficult it must be for you to overcome all those years of
upper middle-class suburban oppression. Must be tough. But the next time you storm the
PTA crusading for better... lunch meat, or whatever it is you white girls complain about,
ask them WHY they can't buy a book written by a black man!
White Rastas: That's right mon!
Mr. Morgan: Don't even get me started on you two!
White Rastas: [Mumble to themselves]
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Bianca: People expect me to be there!
Walter Stratford: Kat's not going, you're not going!
Bianca: Why can't you be normal?
Kat Stratford: Define normal.
Bianca: Bogey Lowenstein's party is normal.
Walter Stratford: What's a Bogey Lowenstein?
Kat Stratford: Bogey's party is just a lame excuse for all the idiots at our school to drink
beer and rub up against each other in hopes of distracting themselves from the pathetic
emptiness of their meaningless...
Bianca, Chastity: ...meaningless, consumer-driven lives.
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[last lines]
Kat Stratford: You can't just buy me a guitar every time you screw up, you know?
Patrick: Yeah, I know. But then, you know, there's always drums, and bass, and maybe
even one day a tambourine.
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Bianca: [after Kat has told her that she went out with Joey] How is it possible that I did
not know about this?
Kat Stratford: I warned him that if he told anyone, the cheerleading squad would find
out how tiny his dick is!
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Mr. Chapin: You look pretty nervous.

kid in detention: Yes, sir.
Mr. Chapin: You're sweating like a pig.
kid in detention: Yes, sir.
Mr. Chapin: You're eyes are all... bloodshot.
kid in detention: Yes, sir.
Mr. Chapin: You've got pot, don't you?
[the kid pulls out a bag]
Mr. Chapin: I'm confiscating this.
[walks away and sees Cheetos on another students desk]
Mr. Chapin: This too.
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Joey: [to Patrick after Kat backs into his car when he won't move it out her way]
Watching that bitch violate my car doesn't count as a date.
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Joey: Your sister here?

Kat Stratford: Stay away from my sister.
Joey: Oh, I'll stay away from your sister, but I can't guarantee she'll stay away from me.
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Joey: Are you lost?
Michael: No, actually I just came by to chat.
Joey: We don't chat.
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Walter Stratford: You're 18, you don't know what you want. And you won't know what
you want 'til you're 45, and even if you get it, you'll be too old to use it.
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Joey: [holding up headshots] Which one do you like better?

Bianca: Umm, I think I like the white shirt better.
Joey: Yeah, it's-it's more...
Bianca: Pensive?
Joey: Damn, I was going for thoughtful.
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Kat Stratford: I'll let you get back to Reginald's quivering member.
Ms. Perky: "Quivering member." I like that.
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Ms. Perky: [writing her novel] Undulating with desire, Adrian removes her red...
[breaks concentration, chooses another word]
Ms. Perky: crimson cape, at the site of Reginal's stiff and... Judith! What's another word
for "engorged"?
Judith: [disgusted] I'll look it up.
Ms. Perky: Okay.
[thinking of word]
Ms. Perky: Swollen... Turgid...
Kat Stratford: [enters] Tumescent?
Ms. Perky: Perfect!
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Bianca: Can we for two seconds ignore the fact that you're severely unhinged and discuss
my need for a night of teenage normalcy?
Walter Stratford: What's normal? Those damn Dawson's River kids, sleeping in each
other's beds and whatnot?
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Bianca: But she's a mutant! What if she never dates?

Walter Stratford: Then you'll never date. Oh, I like that.
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Patrick: I thought you wanted out.

Cameron: Yeah, well, I did, but, uh... that was until she kissed me.
Patrick: Where?
Cameron: In the car.
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[after purposefully crashing into a car]

Kat Stratford: Whoops.
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Bianca: You suck!

Kat Stratford: [Mocking Bianca] You suck!
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Kat Stratford: What is it, Asshole Day?

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[talking about the prom]

Kat Stratford: Can you even imagine? Who the hell would go to that antiquated mating-
ritual?
Mandella: I would, but I don't have a date.
Kat Stratford: Do you really wanna get all dressed up, so some Drakkar Noir-wearing
dexter with a boner can feel you up while you're forced to listen to a band that, by
definition, blows?
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Kat Stratford: You're looking at this from entirely the wrong perspective. We're making
a statement.
Mandella: Oh goody, something new and different for us!
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Kat Stratford: Tell me something true.

Patrick: Something true... I hate peas.
Kat Stratford: No, something real, something no one else knows.
Patrick: Okay, you're sweet, and sexy, and completely hot for me.
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Mr. Morgan: All right, not that I give a damn, but how was everybody's weekend?
Joey: Oh, I dunno, maybe we should ask Kat?
Mr. Morgan: Unless she kicked the crap outta your dumb butt, I don't wanna hear about
it!
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Mr. Morgan: Get outta my class.

Kat Stratford: What?
Mr. Morgan: Out. Get out!
Joey: Thanks, Mr. Morgan.
Mr. Morgan: Shut up!
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[Two guys are fighting in his house, making a mess]
Bogey Lowenstien: You guys, please! Take it outside!
[They smash through a window]
Bogey Lowenstien: Thank you!
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Michael: These delusionals are your White Rastas. Uh, they're big Marley fans, they
think they're black, semi-political, but mostly...
Cameron: Smoke a lot of weed?
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Patrick: Well maybe you're not afraid of me but I'm sure you've thought about me naked,
huh?
Kat Stratford: [sarcastically] Am I that transparent? I want you, I *need* you, oh baby,
oh baby.
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Mr. Morgan: [after reading Shakespearean sonnet] Now, I know Shakespeare's a dead
white guy, but he knows his shit, so we can overlook that. I want you all to write your
own version of this sonnet.
[Kat raises her hand in the background]
Mr. Morgan: Yes, Miss "I Have An Opinion About Everything"?
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Michael: Alright. Uh, I talked to her; I got the scoop.

Cameron: What'd she say?
Michael: "Hates him with the fire of a thousand suns." That's a direct quote.
Patrick: Thanks Michael. That's very comforting of you.
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Cameron: Well, you don't know. She could, uh, she could need a day to cool off.
[they all duck as a soccer ball flies past them]
Patrick: Maybe two.
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Patrick: Hey there girly. How you doin'?

Kat Stratford: Sweating like a pig actually and yourself?
Patrick: Now there's a way to get a guy's attention huh?
Kat Stratford: My mission in life. But, obviously I struck your fancy so you see it
worked. The world makes sense again.
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Michael: I'm thinking of getting a Tercel. Yeah, that's a Toyota.

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Bianca: Can't you just find some blind, deaf retard to take you to the movies so I can
have one date?
Kat Stratford: I'm sorry. Looks like you'll just have to miss out on the witty repartee of
Joey "eat me" Donner.
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Kat Stratford: I guess in this society, being male and an asshole makes you worthy of
our time.
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Walter Stratford: And I'll get to sleep at night. The deep slumber of a father whose
daughters aren't out being impregnated.
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Kat Stratford: You are amazingly self-assured, has anyone ever told you that?
Patrick: I tell myself that every day, actually.
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Patrick: I thought for sure I was busted when I was climbing out that window, I tell you.
So, how did you keep him distracted?
Kat Stratford: I dazzled him with my... wits.
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Cameron: We are screwed.

Michael: Hey, no, hey. I don't wanna hear that defeatist attitude... I wanna hear you
upbeat!
Cameron: [more upbeat] We are screwed!
Michael: There ya go.
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Mandella: Have you seen him?

Kat Stratford: Who?
Mandella: William. He asked me to meet him here.
Kat Stratford: Oh Mandella, please tell me you haven't progressed to full-on
hallucinations.
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Patrick: [while trying to get Kat go out with him] Well, the night I take you places you've
never been before.
Kat Stratford: Like where, the 7-11 on Broadway?
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Walter Stratford: I know who you wanna bend the rules for. It's that hot-rod Joey.
Bianca: What's a hot-rod?
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[both speaking french]
Cameron: May I offer you a parsnip?
Bianca: No, you may not.
Cameron: Where is my uncle's pencil?
Bianca: I don't know. Maybe it is up your ass?
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Bogey Lowenstien: [the doorbell rings] That must be Nigel with the brie.
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Kat Stratford: [drunk. Leans in close to Patrick] Hey... your eyes have a little green in
them.
[Patrick smiles momentarily, then Kat vomits at his feet]
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Cameron: And I'm BACK IN THE GAME!

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Kat Stratford: [talking to Mr. Chapin in detention] Well, now that you've seen "the
plan", I'm gonna go and show "the plan" to someone else.
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[after Joey punches Cameron, Bianca punches Joey in the face]

Joey: Shit, Bianca, I'm shooting a nose spray ad tomorrow!
Bianca: That's for making my date bleed!
[punches him again]
Bianca: That's for my sister!
[knees him in the crotch]
Bianca: And that's for me!
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Walter Stratford: You know fathers don't like to admit it when their daughters are
capable of running their own lives. It means we've become spectators. Bianca still let's
me play a few innings - you've had me on the bench for years. When you go to Sarah
Lawrence, I won't even be able to watch the game.
Kat Stratford: *When* I go?
Walter Stratford: Oh, boy. Don't tell me you changed your mind. I already sent 'em a
check.
[Kat gasps in surprise, then hugs her father]
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Kat Stratford: [to Patrick - after he asks her out for the first time] Do you even know
my name screwboy?
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[Mr. Stratford makes Bianca wear a pregnancy belly before leaving for a party, Patrick
arrives and sees her]
Patrick: [to Kat] Who knocked up your sister?
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Kat Stratford: We're going now.

Walter Stratford: Alright, wait a minute. No drinking, no drugs, no kissing, no tattoos,
no piercings, *no* ritual animal slaughters of any kind. Oh, God, I'm giving them ideas.
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Patrick: I was watching you out there, before. I've never seen you look so sexy.
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Cameron: You embarrassed the girl. Sacrifice yourself on the alter of dignity and even
the score.
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Walter Stratford: What are the two house rules? Number One: No dating till you
graduate. Number Two: No dating till you graduate.
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Patrick: You're gunna pay me to take out some chick?

Joey: Mmhm.
Patrick: How much?
Joey: 20 bucks.
Joey: ...fine 30.
Patrick: Well, let's think about this... we go to the movies, that's 15 bucks. We get
popcorn, that's 53. And she'll want raisonettes, alright? So, we're looking at 75 bucks.
Joey: This isn't a negotiation. Take it or leave it trailer park.
Patrick: 50 bucks and we got a deal, Fabio.
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Patrick: What is it with this chick, she have beer flavored nipples?
Cameron: Hey!
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Patrick: And I didn't sleep with a Spice Girl... I think.

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[Patrick is refusing to help Cameron go out with Bianca]

Patrick: Joey can plough whatever he wants.
Cameron: [angrily] Hey! There will be no ploughing!
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Kat Stratford: joey never told you that we went out did he?
Bianca: yeah ok...
[disbelieving]
Kat Stratford: in ninth, for a month
Bianca: why?
Kat Stratford: [sarcastically] because he was like... such a babe
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Michael: [about Bianca] What's there is a snotty little princess wearing a strategically
planned sundress to make guys like us realize we can never touch her, and guys like, uh,
Joey realize they want to. She, my friend, is what we will spend the rest of our lives not
having, Put her in your "Spank Bank" and move on.
Cameron: No, no, no! You're wrong about her. I mean, you know, not about the
spanking, but the rest, you're wrong!
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Patrick: See, first of all, Joey is not half the man you are. Secondly, don't let anyone,
ever, make you feel like you don't deserve what you want. Go for it!
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Patrick: So what's your excuse?

Kat Stratford: For?
Patrick: Acting the way we do.
Kat Stratford: I don't like to do what people expect.Why should I live up to other
people's expectations instead of my own?
Patrick: So you disappoint them from the start and then you're covered, right?
Kat Stratford: Something like that
Patrick: Then you screwed up!
Kat Stratford: How?
Patrick: You never disappointed me.
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Kat Stratford: Oh wait... was that... did your hairline just recede?
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Kat Stratford: Have you seen the unwashed miscreants that go to that school?
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