The film is a remake of Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew".
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Ms. Perky: I've been hearing a lot of complaints about you again. People are saying you're...
Kat: Pretentious?
Ms. Perky: Well, "heinous bitch" is the term they use most often.
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In the scene where Joey parks his car behind Kat's you hear him coming up really fast and then you see it stop, but if you look in the window across the street you can see in the reflection that the car was still and then it just moves up a little bit. See more...
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Directed by Gil Junger, starring Julia Stiles, Heath Ledger, Joseph Gordon-Levitt (add more)
The film is a remake of Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew".
Kat's last name is Stratford. A homage to Shakespeare's home town perhaps?
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.
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.
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