How do I loathe thee? Let me count the ways. When the new student at Padua High falls for the girl of his dreams, he encounters a big problem: she can’t date until her anti-social older sister does. His solution: pay a mysterious bad boy to woo big sis first. Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew gets a teen update from screenwriters Karen McCullah and Kirsten Smith, while an electrifying young cast (Heath Ledger, Julia Stiles, Joseph Gordon-Levitt) shine in star-making roles.
