Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Name: Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Director: John Hughes
Released: 1986

John Hughes

1986

4.00

Synopsis

After high school slacker Ferris Bueller successfully fakes an illness in order to skip school for the day, he goes on a series of adventures throughout Chicago with his girlfriend Sloane and best friend Cameron, all the while trying to outwit his wily school principal and fed-up sister.

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Matthew BroderickFerris Bueller
Alan RuckCameron Frye
Mia SaraSloane Peterson
Jeffrey JonesEd Rooney
Jennifer GreyJeanie Bueller
Cindy PickettKatie Bueller
Lyman WardTom Bueller
Edie McClurgGrace, School Secretary
Charlie SheenBoy in Police Station
Ben SteinEconomics Teacher

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100
Time
Ferris and his adventures represent a teen's dream of glory: to have, at one's fingertips, the technical skills to sabotage the adult world's machinery of oppression and, at the tip of one's tongue, the perfect squelch for grownups' moralistic blather. [23 June 1986]
89
Austin Chronicle
When people think fondly of John Hughes, it's movies like Ferris Bueller that they're thinking of.
88
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
This is the funniest teen movie I've seen in eons.
80
Film Threat
This is John Hughes' best teen film, and it's a call to arms to everyone in the world who doesn't want to follow society's lame-ass rules at the expense of living a cool life.
75
Chicago Sun-Times
The film's heart is in the right place, and Ferris Bueller is slight, whimsical and sweet.
70
Newsweek
It's basically a mindless paean to goofing off, with interludes of dubious seriousness. [16 June 1986]
50
Chicago Tribune
That the film doesn't live up to our anticipation of a rolicking good time is only part of its disappointment. [11 June 1986]
40
TV Guide Magazine
The story and pacing of this offbeat comedy wear thin after the first 20 minutes.

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