Heath Ledger and Julia Stiles in 10 Things I Hate About You (Gil Junger, 1999)
Cast: Julia Stiles, Heath Ledger, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Larisa Oleynik, David Krumholtz, Andrew Keegan, Larry Miller, Susan May Pratt, Gabrielle Union, Daryl Mitchell, Allison Janney, David Leisure. Screenplay: Karen McCullah, Kirsten Smith, based on a play by William Shakespeare. Cinematography: Mark Irwin. Production design: Carol Winstead Wood. Film editing: O. Nicholas Brown. Music: Richard Gibbs.
10 Things I Hate About You is a reminder of what we lost with Heath Ledger's early death: an actor capable of elevating even a formulaic teen comedy whose obvious source makes the taming of the shrewish Kat Stratford (Julia Stiles) a foregone conclusion. Ledger brings a buoyancy to the role of Patrick Verona, the film's Petruchio, that makes the clichéd role of teen-movie hunk into something fresh and engaging. But that's not to undervalue Stiles's contribution to helping the on-again, off-again role of Kate become somewhat credible. It's not clear why sometimes Kat is clearly infatuated with Patrick and the next minute keeping him at arm's length. I suspect the script underwent so many revisions that everyone lost sight of the thread it was supposed to be following. Stiles gives Kat an edge of wit and charm that is, of course, lost on her fellow high school students, as it must be to keep the story moving. But there are other pleasures to the film, too, including Joseph Gordon-Levitt, making a breakthrough out of sitcom celebrity into full-fledged movie actor, and the always welcome David Krumholtz as his geeky sidekick. The adult roles are sidelined: Allison Janney is wasted as the horny guidance counselor, irritated that the kids are always interrupting her attempt to write a pornographic bodice-ripper; Daryl Mitchell's irascible English teacher makes no sense; and David Leisure's gym teacher is there mostly to get shot in the ass during archery practice and to be distracted by Kat's flashing him to help Patrick escape detention. Larry Miller does what he can with Walter Stratford, the uptight father of Kat and Bianca, but here again the script isn't helping him much. Still, 10 Things has plenty of enjoyable moments and a glimpse of some young performers with bright (if in Ledger's case shadowed) futures.
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I didn't know I needed Julia Styles to show up on SNL randomly to do the "Save the Last Dance" dance, but I did.
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Julia Styles and Alec Baldwin in a scene from State and Main (2000). Julia was born in New York City and has 70 acting credits from a 1993 Cyndi Lauper video to 23 episodes of a 2021-23 series. Her entries among my best 1001 movies are The Bourne Identity and Silver Linings Playbook.
Her other notable credits include Hamlet (2000), Mona Lisa Smile, The Bourne Supremacy, The Bourne Ultimatum, 10 episodes of Dexter, and Jason Bourne.
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A GUY THING- 2003 ⭐️⭐️
Paul (Earl) wakes up after his bachelor party with a bad hangover, a sore ass and a beautiful woman called Becky (Julia Styles) in his bed. This puts him in a major panic as he is about to get married to a different beautiful woman (Selma Blair) and shes on her way over....
He gets Becky out of there before his fiancee Karen arrives but keeps bumping into her and then discovers shes Karens cousin.
Watched this movie as i love both Selma Blair and Julia Styles, but was majorly disappointed. The first ten minutes are great, nice early 2000s vibes, beautiful day by eels etc....
It quickly turns into an insanely dumb comedy that relies on increasingly more unrealistic and over the top sceanarios for tired laughs.
And the bit when Earl was in the bathroom pretending to shit himself? Embarrassing.
Don't get me wrong theres the odd laugh here and there which doesnt make you feel sad inside, and Lochlyn Munro is entertaining as Beckys ex boyfriend/stalker, but overall a guy thing is a childish waste of time that will leave you with a bad hangover.... and a sore ass.
And this commences the JMW 1st anniversary film festival....
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you should draw mullet julia, i think she would look awsome in your style ^^ /nf
i was already drawing her!!! uhhh these arent as good as i'd like them to be so im not calling them anything more than doodles but yeah. mullet julia ftw
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continuation to mkulia evil yuri height difference post . imagine all ur faves being in the same team twice my gawd im living
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Could I ask for some MKulia? As a treat?
Ladies is it gay to test out different lipstick shades on your girlfriend?
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