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Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) 7.9
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Metascore: 61/100
Reviews: 464 user | 127 critic | 13 from Metacritic.com A high school wise guy is determined to have a day off from school, despite what the principal thinks of that. Director:John HughesWriter:John Hughes |
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High school student Ferris Bueller wants a day off from school and he's developed an incredibly sophisticated plan to pull it off. He talks his friend Cameron into taking his father's prized Ferrari and with his girlfriend Sloane head into Chicago for the day. While they are taking in what the city has to offer school principal Ed Rooney is convinced that Ferris is, not for the first time, playing hooky for the day and is hell bent to catch him out. Ferris has anticipated that, much to Rooney's chagrin. Written by garykmcd
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While the rest of us were just thinking about it...Ferris borrowed a Ferrari and did it...all in a day. See more »Genres:
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Country:
USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
11 June 1986 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Un experto en diversión See more »Box Office
Budget:
$6,000,000 (estimated)Gross:
$70,136,369 (USA)Company Credits
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Sloane: He's licking the glass and making obscene gestures with his hands.
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The idea of a sequel had gone around for years with Ferris in college or on the job somewhere, but the idea was dropped. Matthew Broderick felt that the film didn't need a sequel, that this film was about a specific time and place that we'd all like to revisit and didn't need updating. See more »Goofs
When Ferris is playing the sounds on his keyboard, there is a tape sitting to his left. It changes positions, disappears and reappears. See more »Quotes
Ferris: [Hiding on the floor of the taxi while his father is in the car next to him] What's he doing?Sloane: He's licking the glass and making obscene gestures with his hands.
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Broderick banked off that boyish charm that made him so popular on the Broadway stage (Brighton Beach Memoirs) and brought it to this witty laugh ride about a high schooler who one day, just didn't want to go to school and puts himself and his friends in constant mayhem and jeopardy. Broderick is perfect, but it is Jeffrey Jones who gives a searing comic potryal of Ed Rooney, a Mr. Weatherbee-like principal wanting to catch Ferris in only act of treachery; holding him back for one more year of high school. John Hughes is at his best here. The dialogue for this film has received such a following that it has even been printed on shirts and recited at parties by true fans of the film. I don't blame them. It's a classic!