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Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)

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Reviews Counted: 45 Fresh: 37  Rotten:8 Average Rating: 7.5/10
 
Consensus: Matthew Broderick charms in Ferris Bueller's Day Off, a light and irrepressibly fun movie about being young and having fun.
 

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Runtime: 1 hr 43 mins

Synopsis: Ferris Bueller (Matthew Broderick) is a tricky but harmless fast-talker. But he knows how to have fun, which is exactly what he sets out to do when he feigns illness and talks his parents into letting him stay home from school. The perpetually lucky Ferris enlists his hypochondriac best... Ferris Bueller (Matthew Broderick) is a tricky but harmless fast-talker. But he knows how to have fun, which is exactly what he sets out to do when he feigns illness and talks his parents into letting him stay home from school. The perpetually lucky Ferris enlists his hypochondriac best friend, Cameron Frye (Alan Ruck), into springing his girlfriend, Sloane Peterson (Mia Sara), from class, and the three embark on a raucous downtown Chicago adventure. From Wrigley Field to the Art Institute of Chicago to a Polish pride parade, Ferris and his friends make the most of their day off. But Ferris, Sloane, and Cameron might not get away with playing hooky. Ferris's sister, Jeanie (Jennifer Grey), is determined to prove that Ferris is faking sick and make him pay for it, and the bumbling school dean, Ed Rooney (Jeffrey Jones), is sure that Ferris is pulling a fast one. Another classic from writer-director John Hughes (SIXTEEN CANDLES, THE BREAKFAST CLUB), this film features a star turn from Broderick as the charismatic Ferris. Watch for Charlie Sheen as the juvenile delinquent in the police station and comedian Louie Anderson in a brief appearance as a flower deliveryman. [More]

Genre: Comedies

Starring: Matthew Broderick, Mia Sara, Alan Ruck, Jeffrey Jones, Edie McClurg

Director: John Hughes
Producer: John Hughes, Tom Jacobson
Screenwriter: John Hughes
Composer: Ira Newborn, John Robie, Arthur Baker

DVD Info

Release:

May 8, 2008

[DVD Details]
  • "Bueller..Bueller..?" Sorry, not here! Instead, high-schooler Ferris Bueller (Mathew Broderick), his girlfriend Sloane (Mia Sara), and his best bud Cameron (Alan Ruck) are off on the spontaneous romp through Chicago known as Ferris Bueller's Day Off. You'll also enjoy righteous bonus materials that give you an insider's peek at this hilarious comedy hit from John Hughes (Planes, Trains & Automobiles, Sixteen Candles). So, barf up a lung, forge a "sick note" from the parents, and tag along on the funniest adventure to ever sweep through the Windy City. What are you still doing here? Save Ferris!
  • Source - Paramount Home Entertainment
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    Sporadically hilarious, with roots that run far deeper than expected.

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    05/05/08
    Adam Smith
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    There are some great comic set pieces with a seize-the-day vibe for teens. Broderick is amiably charismatic and high school dean Jones almost matches him in comic skill.

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    Ferris is an admittedly entertaining, at times delightful fellow. How unfortunate that no one got to wring the little bastard's neck.

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    02/11/06
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    4/5

    Too much fun.

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    06/12/04
    Rich Cline
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    8/10

    ...funny, satiric, bright, and inventive, sagging around the two-thirds mark but coming through with an exhilarating finish.

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    07/24/08
    John J. Puccio
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    3/4

    Broderick brings some real charm and chutzpah to the part.

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    07/18/07
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    Ferris Bueller exhibits John Hughes on an off day. Paucity of invention here lays bare the total absence of plot or involving situations.

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    07/18/07
    Variety Staff
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    The overriding impression is one of utter nihilism, of a world divided into bored, crassly materialistic teenagers and doltish, unfeeling adults.

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    07/18/07
    Dave Kehr
    Chicago Reader
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    06/03/06
    Glenn Lovell
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    Not only captures what being a teenager and a high schooler felt like, but also embodies what life ought to be like.

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    02/16/06
    Jeffrey M. Anderson
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    ...removed from the moment, the high capitalism of the mid-1980s, the movie seems mild and pleasantly whimsical.

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    01/24/06
    Philip Martin
    Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
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    A next generation Eddie Haskell, Ferris Bueller redefined "cool" misbehavior for Generation X....Hughes has a knack for memorable set pieces. [new DVD review]

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    01/02/06
    Peter Canavese
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    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.

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    Emanuel Levy
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    3.5/4

    Who among Generation X doesn't like—love—Ferris Bueller?

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    06/09/05
    Sarah Chauncey
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    Eminently quotable and very, very fun.

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    04/17/05
    Scott Weinberg
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    Robin Clifford
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    11/04/04
    Mark R. Leeper
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    09/29/04
    Rob Blackwelder
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    09/03/04
    Thomas Delapa
    Boulder Weekly
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