A modern day, high school variation on Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, with Heath Ledger as a boy (last name Verona) who takes a bribe to take the school's brainy outcast girl (last name Stratford, played by Julia Styles) to the prom. What starts as a cruel hoax turns into real love, of course, with plenty of comic confusion along the way. With Larry Miller and Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
