10 Things I Hate About You (1999)

Trivia: The film is a remake of Shakespeare's comedy play "The Taming of the Shrew".

Trivia: Kat's last name is Stratford, a homage to Shakespeare's home town of Stratford upon Avon in Warwickshire.

Trivia: The music store where Kat plays with the guitar is called Gil's. This is a sly reference to the film's director, Gil Junger. (00:58:00)

Trivia: The red Dodge Dart GT Kat Stratford [Julia Stiles] drives actually belonged to Heath Ledger.

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Trivia: Larisa Oleynik auditioned for both Kat and Bianca. She even dyed her hair pink to show that she could portray the punk sensibilities of Kat, only to be told she would need to bleach it out.

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Trivia: Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Larisa Oleynik also played a couple on 3rd Rock from the Sun around the same time this film was released.

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Trivia: The book Kat is reading at the beginning of the movie is "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath, which is about a young girl's descent into madness.

Trivia: Larisa Oleynik became so fond of Heath Ledger while making this film that his death in 2008 left her feeling too hurt to even talk about him anecdotally.

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