Kirsten "Kiwi" Smith (born 12 August 1970) is an American screenwriter and novelist. She wrote most of the screenplays with her screenwriter partner Karen McCullah Lutz. Most of the scripts seems to follow the girl Power movement of the late 1990s and early 2000s. Smith got her official start as a screenwriter in 1997 by selling 10 Things I Hate About You as a spec screenplay. Shortly thereafter, the movie was green-lit, starring then-unknowns Heath Ledger and Julia Stiles, and it was shot in Tacoma, Washington, near Smith's hometown.
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Biography from TMDB.
- August 12, 1970 (56)
- Contra Costa County, California, USA
- Writer and producer
- 14 on MovieCove · 19 credits in all
What are Kirsten Smith's films like?
Across their 9 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Self and Bonds.
Themes
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 0 · Wry 1 · Earnest 8
Light 9 · Serious 0 · Dark 0
Grounded 6 · Stylized 2 · Heightened 1
Gentle 5 · Charged 4 · Intense 0
Steady 7 · Shifting 2 · Whiplash 0
Straight-faced 1 · Some laughs 1 · Funny 7
Slow burn 3 · Even-paced 6 · Relentless 0
Casual 8 · Engaged 1 · Full focus 0
Easy watch 9 · Affecting 0 · Heavy 0
Resolved 9 · Open-ended 0 · Ambiguous 0
Moods and endings
- Happy9
AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.
Where can I watch Kirsten Smith's films?
As of October 24, 2026, 9 of their 14 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service.
Subscription and free streaming for Kirsten Smith's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
19 credits, 14 with a MovieCove page.
Trinkets(2019)
Midcredits score: 54th percentile of all shows
SPF-18(2017)
Midcredits score: 1st percentile of all films
Don't Talk to Irene(2017)
Midcredits score: 62nd percentile of all films
That Burning Feeling(2013)
Midcredits score: 25th percentile of all films
The Ugly Truth(2009)
Midcredits score: 50th percentile of all films
Whip It(2009)
Midcredits score: 78th percentile of all films
American Virgin(2009)
Midcredits score: 5th percentile of all films
The Spleenectomy (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2008)
The House Bunny(2008)
Midcredits score: 33rd percentile of all films
An American Crime(2007)
Midcredits score: 85th percentile of all films
She's the Man(2006)
Midcredits score: 66th percentile of all films
Ella Enchanted(2004)
Midcredits score: 61st percentile of all films
Legally Blonde(2001)
Midcredits score: 72nd percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 94th percentile of all films
Poison Ivy II(1996)
Midcredits score: 9th percentile of all filmsBlame It on Rome (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
Hope (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
Sleep Toward Heaven (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
The Spice Girls (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
Career shape
A full career of 16 titles, 12 of them dated from 1996 to 2019.
Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored.
How do Kirsten Smith's films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 61st percentile, the median of all 13; across their 9 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 62nd percentile for acclaim.
- 75th and up3
- 50th to 74th6
- 25th to 49th2
- Below 25th3
Shape of the crowd
7 of their 14 titles are Crowd Pleasers.
- Universally Loved1
- Universally Panned1
- Crowd Pleaser7
- Broadly Agreed1
- Mixed4
Reviewers score the dialogue 51/100 and the plot and story 35/100 in their films, across 8 reviewed titles. The element that speaks to their work as a writer.
Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.
Is Kirsten Smith's work okay for kids?
Across up to 7 MovieCove titles with content scores, violence & gore, alcohol & drugs and frightening / intense run lighter than most films.
Severity 0–100 from the Content Guide. Categories with under 10 votes on a title are not counted. The band's colour is the severity of their median, named beside it.
Who does Kirsten Smith work with?
People who share at least 2 of Kirsten Smith's MovieCove titles; Karen McCullah shares the most, 5.
- Karen McCullahShared titles: The House Bunny (2008), She's the Man (2006), Ella Enchanted (2004), Legally Blonde (2001), 10 Things I Hate About You (1999)See all 5 shared titles with Karen McCullah
