Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) movie poster

Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)

"Leisure rules."
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👍 89%Google users liked it ⓘ
Critics Score
🎬 72%
Comedy

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Runtime
1h 43m
Rated
PG-13
Country
United States of America
Language
English
TMDB Rating
7.6/10 (5,307 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes
83%
Metacritic
61

Cast

Matthew Broderick as Ferris Bueller · 70% avg
Alan Ruck as Cameron Frye · 69% avg
Mia Sara as Sloane Peterson · 77% avg
Jeffrey Jones as Ed Rooney · 76% avg
Jennifer Grey as Jeanie Bueller · 79% avg
Cindy Pickett as Katie Bueller
Lyman Ward as Tom Bueller
Edie McClurg as Grace, School Secretary · 76% avg

Is Ferris Bueller's Day Off good?

Yes. 89% of real audiences liked it, by Google's archived audience score. Critics gave it 72%.

Where it ranks on ThumbScore

Rank in its genre
#153 / 2672 · Comedy
Rank in its year
#7 / 58 · 1986
Rank among its director's films
#2 / 7 · John Hughes

By audience score, among films with 500 or more votes.

Overview

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. Wikipedia ↗

About the Film

Ferris Bueller's Day Off is a 1986 American comedy directed by John Hughes. Matthew Broderick stars as Ferris Bueller, a charismatic, impossibly popular high school senior in suburban Chicago who decides to skip school on a beautiful spring day, recruiting his best friend Cameron, played by Alan Ruck, and his girlfriend Sloane to join him for a day of adventures in downtown Chicago while the school's obsessive dean of students, Ed Rooney played by Jeffrey Jones, attempts to catch him. The film was John Hughes's most exuberant and purely joyful creation — Ferris's direct-to-camera addresses, his elaborate schemes to fool his parents and the school, and his philosophical conviction that life moves pretty fast and you have to stop and look around occasionally made him one of the most beloved characters in 1980s cinema.

The parade scene, in which Ferris hijacks a float and lip-syncs "Twist and Shout" to thousands of Chicagoans, was one of the decade's most iconic movie moments. Alan Ruck's Cameron, whose neurotic anxiety was the emotional counterweight to Ferris's breezy confidence, gave the film genuine depth. Ferris Bueller's Day Off earned $70 million worldwide on a $5 million budget.

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