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Movie · Romance, Comedy · 1999 · PG-13

10 Things I Hate About You: parents' guide

13+our pick

Best for ages 13 and up. Rated PG-13 for crude sex-related humor and dialogue, alcohol and drug-related scenes, all involving teens.

A smart, funny teen rom-com loosely based on The Taming of the Shrew that works for most kids 13 and up. A scheming classmate pays the school bad boy to date prickly Kat so her younger sister will be allowed to date. The PG-13 comes from crude sexual jokes, teen drinking and frank talk: a keg party where Kat gets drunk and dances on a table, Kat flashing a teacher off-screen, and a regretted first sexual experience. There is no f-word, though there are some s-words. Its messages about self-respect and peer pressure are strong.

What's in it

Violence

Mild

Light comic scuffles: a stray arrow hits a gym teacher's backside, a punch is thrown, a girl knocks down the boy who wronged her, and a party fight sends guys through a window.

Language

Moderate

No f-words, but steady profanity including s-words, 'bitch' and 'crack whore,' frequent 'oh my God,' and plenty of crude sexual innuendo.

Sex and nudity

Moderate

Crude sexual dialogue throughout, a counselor writing erotica, a boy pretending to expose himself with a sausage, and Kat flashing a teacher with nothing shown. Teens make out at a party, and Kat reveals a regretted sexual experience.

Drinking, drugs and smoking

Moderate

Teens drink at a keg party, where Kat gets drunk, dances on a table and vomits. A teacher pockets a student's marijuana, a teen quits smoking to impress a girl, and drug use is mentioned.

Scary or intense scenes

None

Nothing frightening. The tension is social: embarrassment at a party, a lie coming out, and hurt feelings.

Worth talking about

Kat explains why she stopped going along with what everyone else was doing: how does peer pressure shape choices about dating and drinking, and what makes it easier to say no?

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Checked October 13th, 2026 against Common Sense Media, Plugged In, the MPA, screenwiseapp.com. The age is our judgment, not an official rating, and every family draws its lines differently: read the notes, not just the number. Spotted something we missed? Tell us. How we rate.