Movie Summary
EDIT- Director:
- John Hughes
- Released:
- 1986
- Rating:
- PG-13
Ferris Bueller's Day Off is a tale of playing hooky and causing mayhem. Ferris Bueller is the slick kid who gets away with everything, and he decides that today he's going to get away with skipping school. His jealous sister, Jeanie, will do anything to turn him in, but she can't seem to catch him. After rigging a very sly device to make his family think he's still in bed, he heads off for his big day with his best friend, Cameron Frye, and his girlfriend, Sloane Peterson. First they snag Cameron's father's Ferrari and drive into downtown Chicago. They visit the Art Institute, the Sears Tower, and Wrigley Field. Meanwhile the students back at the school have heard of Ferris' terrible illness and have started collecting for a "Save Ferris" fund. The school principal, Ed Rooney doesn't believe the story and goes looking for Ferris, only to end up in an altercation with Jeanie. The day looks like it will be a celebration of freedom, joy, and recklessness until it someone figures out Ferris' scheme.
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Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
The film's heart is in the right place, and Ferris Bueller is slight, whimsical and sweet.
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The New York Times
In this film [Hughes] has created a character who is every teen-ager's fantasy, but in the process he has lost some of the authenticity of his other films - leaving several slow tr...
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Variety
Paucity of invention here lays bare the total absence of plot or involving situations.
 Matthew Broderick |
Ferris Bueller |
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 Alan Ruck |
Cameron Frye |
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 Mia Sara |
Sloane Peterson |
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 Cindy Pickett |
Katie Bueller |
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 Edie McClurg |
Grace |
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Production Budget - $5,800,000
Domestic Gross - $70,136,369 (10th)
Domestic adjusted for 2013 - $151,237,453 -
Filming locations:
L'Orangerie, Los Angeles, California
Art Institute of Chicago, Downtown, Chicago, Illinois
Ben Rose Auto Museum, Highland Park, Illinois
Brentwood, Los Angeles, California
Butternut Lane, Northbrook, Illinois
California State University Long Beach, Long Beach, California
Chicago Board of Trade, The Loop, Downtown, Chicago, Illinois
Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Downtown, Chicago, Illinois
Des Plaines, Illinois
Downtown, Chicago, Illinois
El Camino Real High School, Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California
Glenbrook North High School, Northbrook, Illinois
Glencoe Beach, Glencoe, Illinois
Glencoe, Illinois
Gold Coast, Near North Side, Chicago, Illinois
Highland Park, Illinois
Koenig & Strey Office, Winnetka, Illinois
Lake Forest, Illinois
Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, Illinois
Lake View, Chicago, Illinois
Long Beach, California
Maine North High School, Des Plaines, Illinois
Northbrook, Illinois
Sears Tower, Downtown, Chicago, Illinois
The Loop, Downtown, Chicago, Illinois
Winnetka, Illinois
Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California
Wrigley Field, Lake View, Chicago, Illinois -
Taglines:
1. Leisure Rules.
2. One Man's Struggle To Take It Easy.
3. While the rest of us were just thinking about it...Ferris borrowed a Ferrari and did it...all in a day. -
Music:
Bad
Written by Mick Jones and Don Letts
Performed by Big Audio Dynamite
Beat City
Written and Performed by Ben Watkins and Adam Peters
Danke Schoen
Written by Bert Kaempfert, Kurt Schwabach, and Milton Gabler
Performed by Wayne Newton
The Edge Of Forever
Written by Nick Laird-Clowes and Gilbert Gabriel
Performed by The Dream Academy
I'm Afraid
Written by David Joyner and Paul Mansfield
Performed by Blue Room
Jeannie (Theme From I Dream Of Jeannie)
Written by Hugo Montenegro
Love Missile F1-11
Written by Tony James, Neil Whitmore, and Martin Degville
Performed by Sigue Sigue Sputnik
March Of The Swivelheads
Written and Performed by The (English) Beat
Oh Yeah
Written by Boris Blank and Dieter Meier
Performed by Yello
Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want
Written by Morrissey and Johnny Marr
Performed by The Dream Academy
Radio People
Written by Larry Troutman and Terry Troutman
Performed by Zapp
Star Wars (Main Title)
Written by John Williams
Taking The Day Off
Written by David Wakeling
Performed by General Public
Twist And Shout
Written by Bert Russell and Phil Medley
Performed by The Beatles
WLS Jingle
Go Down Moses
Written by Traditional
Performed by Alan Ruck
Man on the Moon
Written by Jonathan Elias
Minuet from String Quartet in E Major
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Golden Globes Nominations:
1. Actor Comedy/Musical - Matthew Broderick/a>Â (won by Paul Hogan/a> for Crocodile Dundee)
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Themes
breaking the fourth wall, characters with hidden agendas, crazy teachers, depression, facing danger
