Ferris Bueller's Day Off
June 11, 1986 in theaters
High school senior Ferris Bueller fakes a sick day, recruits his anxious best friend Cameron and girlfriend Sloane, and spends the day consuming as much of Chicago as possible -- while his determined dean scrambles to catch him. John Hughes's 1986 comedy is a love letter to youth and freedom, with Broderick playing Ferris as someone who has already figured out that life is too short to spend inside.
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"Cameron has never been in love -- at least, nobody's ever been in love with him."
DID YOU KNOW?
The parade sequence in downtown Chicago used a real annual Von Steuben Day parade -- John Hughes worked with the city to integrate the film's shoot into the actual event.
THE VERDICT
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John Hughes's finest film and one of the great American comedies -- a perfectly constructed day-in-the-life that uses Chicago as a playground and Ferris Bueller as its philosopher-king. Matthew Broderick's fourth-wall-breaking performance is effortless in a way that took remarkable skill, and the film is wise enough to make Cameron Frye its true emotional core. The Ferrari scene, the parade sequence, and Twist and Shout remain three of the most joyful minutes in 1980s cinema.
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