Sporadically hilarious, with roots that run far deeper than expected.
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05/05/08
Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)
82 %
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.
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... [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
Producer: John Hughes, Tom Jacobson
Screenwriter: John Hughes
Composer: Ira Newborn, John Robie, Arthur Baker
Reviews
Top Critic
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.
05/05/08
Top Critic
Ferris is an admittedly entertaining, at times delightful fellow. How unfortunate that no one got to wring the little bastard's neck.
02/11/06
Top Critic
...funny, satiric, bright, and inventive, sagging around the two-thirds mark but coming through with an exhilarating finish.
07/24/08
Top Critic
Ferris Bueller exhibits John Hughes on an off day. Paucity of invention here lays bare the total absence of plot or involving situations.
07/18/07
Top Critic
The overriding impression is one of utter nihilism, of a world divided into bored, crassly materialistic teenagers and doltish, unfeeling adults.
07/18/07
Not only captures what being a teenager and a high schooler felt like, but also embodies what life ought to be like.
02/16/06
...removed from the moment, the high capitalism of the mid-1980s, the movie seems mild and pleasantly whimsical.
01/24/06
A next generation Eddie Haskell, Ferris Bueller redefined "cool" misbehavior for Generation X....Hughes has a knack for memorable set pieces. [new DVD review]
01/02/06
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.
12/06/05
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