I still remember where I was and who I was with when I saw this movie in theaters.
This one had no real pushback.
Before cellphones and high speed internet, it was paradise for a 12 year old in Suburban America.
it’s 25th anniversary.
25- Cameron: I learned French for you!
Like going tanning or paying for food, or buying certain clothes.
All the things you think will make them like you but really make you look like a dweeb.
No one admits it, but we all do it… and rather not talk about it.
In terms of laughs per screen time, Mr. Morgan’s ratio is through the roof.
Just perfect on every delivery for all like 8 of his lines.
This one is the best of the bunch.
Back in 99 this was believable for a teacher to be able to break balls like this.
Now they would have his liscense revoked faster than he can blink.
I still find myself liking him because he’s so good at it.
23- Bianca: Has the fact that you’re completely psycho managed to escape your attention?
Right up his alley.
I think he was like 30 in 1999 so not really sure.
22 - Kat Stratford: What is it, Asshole Day?
Usable everyday and everytime you are in traffic or encounter people you just didn’t want to see.
Essentially the message of the movie.
20 - Walter Stratford: You’re 18, you don’t know what you want.
The dad is on fire this entire movie.
Also, a super valuable life lesson.
At 18 I think everyone thinks they have the world figured out while they don’t have a clue.
It takes you til about 30 to realize how dumb you were.
19- Cameron: We are screwed.
Michael: Hey, no, hey.
I don’t wanna hear that defeatist attitude…
I wanna hear you upbeat!
Cameron: [more upbeat] We are screwed!
Michael: There ya go.
I would take a buddy cop movie with Mike and Cameron in a second.
18- Bianca: You don’t buy black lingerie unless you want someone to see it.
Bonk away but something about Larisa Oleynik saying this line always stuck with me.
She was adorable in this movie and everyone I knew had a massive crush on her from this movie.
Fun fact: she got her acting career started as Cosette in Les Mis.
Maybe one day we can sing show tunes together.
17-Bianca: People expect me to be there!
Walter Stratford: Kat’s not going, you’re not going!
Bianca: Why can’t you be normal?
Kat Stratford: Define normal.
Bianca: Bogey Lowenstein’s party is normal.
Walter Stratford: What’s a Bogey Lowenstein?
Almost everyone is trying to do one, two is like hitting the lottery.
I thought this movie did a great job capturing high school authentically.
16-Patrick: Some asshole paid me to take out this really great girl.
Kat Stratford: Is that right?
Patrick: Yeah, but I screwed up.
I, um, I fell for her.
Call me a hapless romantic, I loved this line.
Also not to get nitpicky but are we sure Kat forgives Patrick ?
How long do we think these two date ?
No chance she and him can survive long distance but it ends happily so lets just focus on that.
15- Patrick: So what’s your excuse?
Kat Stratford: For?
Patrick: Acting the way we do.
Kat Stratford: I don’t like to do what people expect.
Why should I live up to other people’s expectations instead of my own?
Patrick: So you disappoint them from the start and then you’re covered, right?
Kat Stratford: Something like that
Patrick: Then you screwed up!
Kat Stratford: How?
Patrick: You never disappointed me.
Again, I’m a sucker for the romantic lines … sue me.
PS- Julia Stiles is so damn good in this movie.
Not to get all woke but this is very true.
Look at how many documentaries OJ got.
Interesting how many people push the limits on this one though… especially in High School.
It means we’ve become spectators.
Bianca still let’s me play a few innings - you’ve had me on the bench for years.
When you go to Sarah Lawrence, I won’t even be able to watch the game.
Kat Stratford: When I go?
Walter Stratford: Oh, boy.
Don’t tell me you changed your mind.
I already sent ‘em a check.
The dad fighting to hold on, the daughter fighting for him to let go.
Thought they did a tremendous job with this scene as well.
11 - Cameron: She never wanted me.
She wanted Joey the whole time.
Patrick: Cameron, do you like the girl?
Patrick: Yeah, and is she worth all this trouble?
See first of all, Joey is not half the man you are.
Secondly, don’t let anyone ever make you feel like you don’t deserve what you want.
Another life lesson I feel we all learn too late.
You want something go for it, and stand up for yourself when you want it.
They work well together and non better than with stuff like this.
10- Mr. Morgan: All right… anyone brave enough to read theirs aloud?
Mr. Morgan: [rolls his eyes and sighs] Lord, here we go.
Kat Stratford: I hate the way you talk to me, and the way you cut your hair.
I hate the way you drive my car.
I hate it when you stare.
I hate your big dumb combat boots, and the way you read my mind.
I hate you so much it makes me sick; it even makes me rhyme.
[sighs]
Kat Stratford: I hate it, I hate the way you’re always right.
I hate it when you lie.
I hate it when you make me laugh, even worse when you make me cry.
[starts to cry]
Kat Stratford: But mostly I hate the way I don’t hate you.
Not even close, not even a little bit, not even at all.
Pretty cool way to work it in when you think about it though.
Also just another perfect scene from Julia Stiles.
Seriously, why isn’t hollywood writing scripts for her she’s fucking awesome.
9- Patrick: I thought you wanted out.
Cameron: Yeah, well, I did, but, uh… that was until she kissed me.
Cameron: In the car.
8- Ms. Perky: So, I hear you were terrorizing Mr. Morgan’s class… again.
Kat Stratford: Expressing my opinion is not a terrorist action.
Ms. Perky: The way you expressed your opinion to Bobby Ridgeway?
By the way, his testicle retrieval operation went quite well, in case you’re interested.
Kat Stratford: I still maintain that he kicked himself in the balls.
7- Walter Stratford: [Bianca and Chastity are sneaking past Bianca’s father] Shoulda used the window!
Bianca: Hi Daddy!
Walter Stratford: Hi… where’re we going?
Bianca: Well, if you must know… a small study group of friends.
Walter Stratford: Otherwise known as an orgy?
Chastity: Mr. Stratford, it’s just a party!
Walter Stratford: And hell is just a sauna.
The dad bats 1.000 in this movie.
Every line works despite having no reason to work.
Bianca: “I’m a crack-whore who should have made my skeazy boyfriend wear a condom”?
Walter Stratford: Close, but no.
She said, “I should have listened to my father”.
Bianca: She did not.
Walter Stratford: Well, that’s what she would have said if she wasn’t so doped up!
File this under lines that crack me up but can never be used again in movies.
Different times in 1999 folks.
5- Michael: Sweet love, renew thy force.
Start of Shakespeare’s Sonnet LVI]
Patrick: Hey!
Don’t say shit like that to me.
People can hear you.
More of Michael,Patrick and Cameron .
They don’t miss.
4- Michael: I have a dick on my face, don’t I?
3- Cameron: And I’m BACK IN THE GAME!
It’s just perfect.
High school romance folks.
Sidenote : Was Bianca playing Joey the whole time or did she actually like him at one point ?
I still don’t fully know.
Cracks me up everytime.
She have beer-flavored nipples?
One of my top ten lines in all movies.
