The tagline, "How Do I Loathe Thee? Let Me Count The Ways", comes from which 1999 movie?

The tagline “How Do I Loathe Thee? Let Me Count The Ways” comes from the 1999 movie 10 Things I Hate About You. The wording deliberately twists Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s famous poetic line, “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.”

The film is a modernized high-school adaptation of William Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew. Julia Stiles plays Kat Stratford, an independent and difficult-to-impress student whose younger sister Bianca cannot date until Kat does. Heath Ledger plays Patrick Verona, who is paid to pursue Kat but gradually develops genuine feelings for her.

The tagline also echoes the film’s central poem. Kat writes a list of ten things she dislikes about Patrick, then reads it aloud in class as her feelings change. That is why the title and tagline work together: “loathe” replaces “love” for comic effect, while the story gradually turns hostility into romance. The film was released in the United States on March 31, 1999.