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‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ Debuted 35 Years Ago Today

1986 was the summer of Ferris. One of my fav movies of all time. It must have been fun as a teen going to see this before a party that weekend.

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by Anonymousreply 102June 24, 2023 9:13 PM

Awful movie about white make entitlement. He would have ended up a Trumper.

by Anonymousreply 1June 11, 2021 1:54 PM

Ben Stein was the professor for a roommate and whenever he would call the house asking for her, I was so tempted to request he utter that famous line. I never did.

by Anonymousreply 2June 11, 2021 1:54 PM

I didn't like it when it came out, and I haven't seen it since.

by Anonymousreply 3June 11, 2021 1:55 PM

Is it not a surprise that the John Hughes generation ended up being Trump’s base?

by Anonymousreply 4June 11, 2021 1:57 PM

Add me to the list of people who don't like the film. Smug and self satisfied.

by Anonymousreply 5June 11, 2021 1:57 PM

Ferris was an asshole. And his clothes are awful.

by Anonymousreply 6June 11, 2021 2:03 PM

I've actually never seen it.

by Anonymousreply 7June 11, 2021 3:39 PM

It's a pity Cameron never got to go to college and realise he was gay due to his dad beating him to death when he saw the car.

by Anonymousreply 8June 11, 2021 3:44 PM

r2 I didn't even realize Ben Stein was still alive

by Anonymousreply 9June 11, 2021 3:49 PM

As a gayling I wished to have a boyfriend like Cameron so I can take care of him when he pretend to be sick.

by Anonymousreply 10June 11, 2021 3:59 PM

My friend and I walked out on this shitty movie when we watched it in a theater in 1986.

by Anonymousreply 11June 11, 2021 4:11 PM

One of my favorite movies...love to re-watch it occasionally.

by Anonymousreply 12June 11, 2021 4:14 PM

I always loved it, but I only noticed the superficial aspects—just another distracting comedy. Regardless of what you think, Ferris really knew how to live.

Later, I read all sorts of analyses about themes, motifs, metaphors, and symbolism. Once you see those, yeah, Ferris was an unpleasant character.

The story paralleled one in Hughes' teenaged years. Hughes was a middle-class kid befriended with a very rich one. Somehow they took a road trip to Ft. Lauderdale with fake IDs for spring break. They managed to visit all the alcohol-laced spots, and the police arrested his wealthy friend for DWI. Hughes was charged with getting the money to bail him out. Don't know if they were driving a Ferrari.

by Anonymousreply 13June 11, 2021 5:05 PM

r13 Sounds like Hughes had a better day out than Ferris tbh. I like the movie but 3 teenagers skipping school to go to an art gallery and French restaurant was always hilariously unbelievable.

by Anonymousreply 14June 11, 2021 5:13 PM

I would have sucked Ferris's big hairy cock

by Anonymousreply 15June 11, 2021 5:14 PM

^^ Now that’s the DL spirit.

by Anonymousreply 16June 11, 2021 5:26 PM

r14 - When Hughes lived in the Chicago suburbs, he would skip school to visit the Chicago Museum of Art. May have gotten his rich friend to pay for a French restaurant. The parade scene—definitely a fantasy.

by Anonymousreply 17June 11, 2021 5:30 PM

R11 is a fucking liar. Nobody walked out on this movie.

by Anonymousreply 18June 11, 2021 10:07 PM

I only rewatch this movie for Jennifer Grey and Edie McClurg. They're both hysterical in it.

by Anonymousreply 19June 11, 2021 10:26 PM

My cousin saw this and returned to school a Ferris clone. Somehow he managed to get way with his antics because he was cute and charming and his parents had money. I hated him.

by Anonymousreply 20June 11, 2021 10:36 PM

I love this movie & watched it on VHS daily for like a month. My sister always said I’m totally Jeannie (!) though I’m a dude. She also says I’m like Monica from Friends. Anyhoo, very fun film, love the scenery especially.

by Anonymousreply 21June 11, 2021 11:17 PM

R2, Ben Stein called female students at home when he was a professor, multiple times? That’s notable. I never once had a professor call me.

by Anonymousreply 22June 11, 2021 11:21 PM

Too annoying to watch from beginning to end. I hate all the characters excluding the crazy sister and Charlie Sheen's cameo as himself, a lecherous druggie.

by Anonymousreply 23June 12, 2021 1:06 AM

R23 you’re nuts. It’s one of the most highly rewatchable movies ever made. People still love it 35 years later for a reason.

by Anonymousreply 24June 12, 2021 1:56 PM

Better Off Dead was better. Cusack is funnier than Broderick.

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by Anonymousreply 25June 12, 2021 2:02 PM

Cusack is also much better looking and never killed anyone.

by Anonymousreply 26June 12, 2021 2:07 PM

Ferris should have gotten his ass kicked and then sent to juvie - what an annoying smug little shit of an asshole.

by Anonymousreply 27June 12, 2021 2:14 PM

Jennifer Grey definitely stole the show as the very relatable sister Jeanie who was annoyed that her spoiled asshole of a brother got away with everything with smile and slick one-liner. She's supposed to be the antagonist and reforms her way at the end by helping him. She was never in the wrong to begin with. John Hughes's misogyny definitely doesn't age well.

by Anonymousreply 28June 12, 2021 2:31 PM

It's one of the Hughes films that actually holds up a bit.

Sixteen Candles has fallen apart between the implied rape/nonconsensual act and the Asian mockery, and while I love most of Breakfast Club, the need to make Ally Sheedy's character over sort of flies in the face of the message of the rest of the movie.

by Anonymousreply 29June 12, 2021 2:35 PM

Ferris Bueller had misogynistic undertones too especially with Sloane and Jeanie's characters. Sloane tolerating her most likely unfaithful boyfriend's bullshit and Jeanie getting pacified by Charlie Sheen's magic dick. Weird Science is one of my favorites but the concept is something that wouldn't fly today at least Kelly LeBrock played an intelligent role.

by Anonymousreply 30June 12, 2021 2:44 PM

Horrible move that rode the wave of those terrible 80s teen movies. It sucked. Breakfast club sucked. Pretty in pink sucked. These movies WISH they had the legacy and impact that Heathers had.

by Anonymousreply 31June 12, 2021 2:52 PM

Movie^

by Anonymousreply 32June 12, 2021 2:57 PM

Heathers was most definitely made as a reaction to Hughes cliché and romanticized depiction of teenage suburbia. It was one of the most anti-Reagan movies of all time.

by Anonymousreply 33June 12, 2021 2:58 PM

[quote] Sloane tolerating her most likely unfaithful boyfriend's bullshit

Not exactly fair. Sloane seemed pretty onboard with Ferris bullshit, and was a much bigger enabler than Cam. And who's he meant to have been unfaithful with? Cameron? She seemed pretty onboard with that too given her reaction to him seeing her naked.

by Anonymousreply 34June 12, 2021 3:32 PM

Cameron was a cutie, although the actor was nearly thirty when they filmed.

by Anonymousreply 35June 12, 2021 3:40 PM

Cindy Pickett and Lyman Ward got married in real life.

Cindy Pickett was actually Roger Vadim's muse for a period of time. He tried to make her into another Jane Fonda, Brigitte Bardot but it didn't work out.

by Anonymousreply 36June 12, 2021 3:42 PM

Count me in as another one who never liked this movie. But I think it's because I never liked Matthew Broderick. He's really only good at playing weirdo losers, like in Election and You Can Count on Me. But as a lead, he's a zero.

by Anonymousreply 37June 12, 2021 5:33 PM

Alan Ruck was hilarious as the horny city hall chief, Stuart, on Spin City. A great ensemble sitcom starring Michael J. Fox as the hyper-competent deputy mayor. It went downhill though when MJF had to sadly leave the show due to his Parkinson's and got replaced by Charlie Sheen. Stuart (Ruck)who was initially homophobic ended up becoming best friends with his gay coworker Carter and they ended up as roommates in an Odd Couple type of dynamic.

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by Anonymousreply 38June 13, 2021 2:10 AM

R30 The only point of that movie was to see 16 year old Ilan Mitchell-Smith in women's underwear. He was so adorably fuckable.

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by Anonymousreply 39June 13, 2021 4:14 PM

[QUOTE] Ferris Bueller had misogynistic undertones too especially with Sloane and Jeanie's characters. Sloane tolerating her most likely unfaithful boyfriend's bullshit and Jeanie getting pacified by Charlie Sheen's magic dick.

Here’s a little secret: women actually like misogyny. They are attracted to misogynistic men.

by Anonymousreply 40June 13, 2021 4:59 PM

"Chicago Museum of Art"

Oh, dear!

by Anonymousreply 41June 13, 2021 5:06 PM

I only liked that movie because I found Alan Ruck hot.

by Anonymousreply 42June 13, 2021 5:07 PM

R39 at the age of 14 that scene made realize I was a homo.

by Anonymousreply 43June 13, 2021 6:51 PM

Hello r1, who’s bothering you now?

by Anonymousreply 44June 13, 2021 6:56 PM

I think there's a lot you can criticise Ferris for. But the one time in the entire movie he shows genuine emotion is when he thinks Cameron commits suicide.

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by Anonymousreply 45June 13, 2021 11:53 PM

[quote][R2], Ben Stein called female students at home when he was a professor, multiple times? That’s notable. I never once had a professor call me.

Guess you just weren't popular. Seriously, she was one of many assistants helping Stein with projects.

by Anonymousreply 46June 14, 2021 2:39 AM

[QUOTE] Count me in as another one who never liked this movie. But I think it's because I never liked Matthew Broderick. He's really only good at playing weirdo losers, like in Election and You Can Count on Me. But as a lead, he's a zero.

I think that’s part of what made the movie special: the fact that Matthew Broderick pulled off the role so well. It’s like he was born to play Ferris at that moment in time.

by Anonymousreply 47June 19, 2021 8:18 PM

Jennifer Grey was a CUNT.

by Anonymousreply 48June 19, 2021 8:22 PM

R47 He was very good and having a punchable face. In War Games, I was rooting for the nukes, just so his character would be horribly killed.

by Anonymousreply 49June 25, 2021 7:57 AM

This shit movie has aged as well as Weird Science. They may have been ok back then but now they both fucking suck.

by Anonymousreply 50June 25, 2021 8:03 AM

I bet Ferris happily showed off his lovely cock and ass for Cameron to enjoy

by Anonymousreply 51June 25, 2021 8:03 AM

"Risky Business", Breakfast Club" and this movie all took place in the Chicago North Shore suburbs where I grew up. I related to all three movies because at that age they were me. Now an elderGay, I watch those movies through the haze of rose colored glasses as they are my youth

Deep, huh?

by Anonymousreply 52June 25, 2021 8:42 AM

A funny movie then; still funny now.

by Anonymousreply 53June 25, 2021 10:09 AM

Fuck this movie. I have no nostalgic feelings toward it whatsoever. Ben Stein is great, and I adore Mia Sara (who was better in "Legend", which I love, despite Tom Cruise).

by Anonymousreply 54June 25, 2021 10:15 AM

I LOVE "Weird Science", R50. But I've never bothered to watch "Ferris" a second time.

by Anonymousreply 55June 25, 2021 10:23 AM

Like R52, I grew up in the Chicago area, too.

I spent a lot of time in Chicago during the 80s and 90s, and this movie has that nostalgia feel for me.

There is one thing that pisses me off.

In real life, the restaurant at which they have lunch was called Chez Paul. I always wanted to go to this place and never got the chance!!!

It was a very expensive place and, me being a teen, it was not an option. It closed a few years ago. Just like Le Francais, ANOTHER expensive Chicago-area place I wanted to go but never did!! It's gone, too!!

Chez Paul in the 80s...

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by Anonymousreply 56June 25, 2021 10:49 AM

R55 was written by that fucking geek whose idea of a good time is showering with pants on with "the most beautiful girl and smartest girl in the world". Then going to a fucking blues club and chatting with a bunch of fucking idiots. Then having a lame party with the cast of Mad Max! Jesus fuck, the movie is a celebration of what a fucking loser the writer is.

by Anonymousreply 57June 25, 2021 10:55 AM

I saw this with a group of friends when it came out. Summer after high school graduation. I haven’t seen it in a few years, but it always reminds me of that summer. No more high school, optimistic about college and the future, hooking up with my hot friend in his Camaro while playing The Smiths, getting my first car, smoking pot for the first time, first plane trip…good times.

by Anonymousreply 58June 25, 2021 12:36 PM

I was obsessed with this movie as a teen and one summer watched the VHS everyday. I had a major crush on Ferris (but not so much Matthew Broderick if that makes sense). I also had a crush on Cameron. I wanted to be his boyfriend and take care of him and help him not be sad anymore.

There are lots of dark things about the movie though. For one you just knew Ferris was going to grow up to be a Republican and a bitter guy who peaked in high school or maybe college, His antics were going to be less and less cute as he approached 30.

It’s depressing to think about what was going to happen to Cameron after the movie. His dad was probably going to beat his ass or kick him out for destroying that car. Ferris was really a pretty shitty friend. He gets to go home to his charmed life with parents who adore him .

The principal was hysterical in this but wasn’t the actor who played him arrested for possessing child porn?

by Anonymousreply 59June 25, 2021 12:40 PM

Living in Ferris's suburban Chicago neighborhood I've passed by Cameron's ultra-cool Sheridan Rd. house at least a 1000 times. I've never passed it without thinking of this movie, the Ferrari, the broken glass and Cameron's "that's ok, son" father

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by Anonymousreply 60June 25, 2021 1:08 PM

R59 Movies are not real life, you psychotic fuck. Get a grip, cunt.

by Anonymousreply 61June 25, 2021 8:51 PM

I’d love to visit that house, R60. You’re lucky.

by Anonymousreply 62June 25, 2021 8:55 PM

R61, what the fuck is your problem? We are here discussing the movie and I gave my thoughts on it. Are you on your goddamn period?? You probably sympathize with the actor from the movie who got caught with child porn. Freak.

by Anonymousreply 63June 25, 2021 11:48 PM

One of those popular 80s movies that I never got why it is so beloved.

Ferris was an asshole.

John Hughes really only made one great movie, and that was 16 Candles.

by Anonymousreply 64June 25, 2021 11:51 PM

R63 Only a psychotic mentally ill turd imagines that horribly written, fictionalized characters have real world consequences. You're a fucking moron. Clearly Jabba has a new sock account. I have 5 of her accounts blocked already.

by Anonymousreply 65June 25, 2021 11:56 PM

R63, it’s ok hun . Go jerk off to pictures of your grandma like you were doing earlier. Buh-bye.

by Anonymousreply 66June 26, 2021 10:11 AM

That was meant for r65. The freak who got offended when I mentioned someone getting arrested for child porn.

by Anonymousreply 67June 26, 2021 10:13 AM

A year later.

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by Anonymousreply 68July 5, 2022 12:51 AM

A fun movie.Not deep or thought provoking,just plain fun. The parade scene is one of my faves ever. I love John Hughes movies.

by Anonymousreply 69July 5, 2022 1:00 AM

Ferris and Cameron were fucking. Sloane was a beard.

by Anonymousreply 70July 5, 2022 1:23 AM

Ferris was too brave to be closeted.

by Anonymousreply 71July 5, 2022 2:22 AM

Did anyone who saw it in the theater stay long enough for the post credits scene?

by Anonymousreply 72July 5, 2022 2:26 AM

The best part of the film

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by Anonymousreply 73July 5, 2022 2:50 AM

I find "Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ incredibly unfunny and none of the characters are likeable.

I think it's a nasty little film, why the fuck does EVERYBODY seem to love it?

by Anonymousreply 74July 5, 2022 3:34 AM

It's an important film that taught 80s teenagers important lessons: lying is justified when you feel like it; poor people are to be despised; popularity and money are everything.

by Anonymousreply 75July 5, 2022 4:02 AM

I was 15 and poor when this movie came out. I remember seeing it in the movie theater (cheap matinee, snuck in food) thinking, “god those kids are so rich and so lucky-who lives like this in real life?!.” The “this” was Ferris’ and Cameron’s homes. The cars, the clothes, the adoring, attentive Bueller parents, the cash. All the preppy, attractive kids at the high school, etc. It was the opposite of everything I knew and lived. I was so envious!

And then a few weeks later, I went to visit some cousins I hadn’t seen in a few years and realized, “Oh, some other people my age DO live like this.” Nice cars, adoring parents, big houses, safe neighborhoods with lots of kids everywhere, and my cousins and their friends all had money to spend at the mall, at McDonald’s, at movies. It was depressing and eye-opening.

It’s still a great movie, my stupid issues of inferiority aside, and couldn’t have been made as cleanly and effortlessly if any of the kids were poor.

That said, a few years later, my beloved grandmother, who was dying of leukemia, came to live with us. She loved this movie so I’d pop in the vhs copy I stole from the video store and we’d watch it together.

by Anonymousreply 76July 5, 2022 4:07 AM

R18 never saw the movie and yet I had the same thought. From what I remember people liked it and talked about it! I know people who walked out of Reds, The French Lieutenant's Woman and The English Patient.

by Anonymousreply 77July 5, 2022 4:12 AM

Ferris Buehler and Better Off Dead are the two movies I show my students for fun. I always preferred Better Off Dead, and I hold in the highest esteem the few students who've already seen it.

by Anonymousreply 78July 5, 2022 4:20 AM

I don’t love the film but I thought Matthew Broderick was quite fuckable in it.

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by Anonymousreply 79July 5, 2022 7:04 AM

Weird Science is mostly notable for having produced this photograph.

Is it the main male cast or a basket of kittens?

I can't tell, they're just so fucking cute!

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by Anonymousreply 80July 5, 2022 7:11 AM

Never got Broderick’s appeal.

by Anonymousreply 81July 5, 2022 7:18 AM

I did not achieve this position in life by having some snot-nosed punk leave my cheese out in the wind.

by Anonymousreply 82July 5, 2022 7:22 AM

I saw this in a jam packed theater when it came out and no one laughed.I mean no one. Oh, except for the parking garage guys riding around in the Ferrari. I hated it then and I hate it now. Ferris is such a weasel.

by Anonymousreply 83July 5, 2022 8:19 AM

My god. After I saw this film, i was obsessed with Mathew and would jerk off to him in pictorials in People Magazine!!!

I ended up working with him, 10 years later, on a film and was sadly disappointed by him, in person. (though, he was very nice.) I just couldn't get it up for him.

by Anonymousreply 84July 5, 2022 10:17 AM

Alan Ruck and Matthew Broderick were clearly having intense gay sex during the filming of the movie.

At least that's what I care to believe.

Loved the movie. Freedom!

by Anonymousreply 85July 5, 2022 10:24 AM

[QUOTE] I don’t love the film but I thought Matthew Broderick was quite fuckable in it.

Ferris was cute as hell.

by Anonymousreply 86July 5, 2022 4:07 PM

I also thought this movie was stupid and Ferris was selfish, self-centered and intensely unlikeable.

by Anonymousreply 87July 5, 2022 11:53 PM

[quote] I ended up working with him, 10 years later, on a film and was sadly disappointed by him, in person. (though, he was very nice.) I just couldn't get it up for him.

Was this a gay porn shoot? Was Matthew playing a Mormon elder?

by Anonymousreply 88July 5, 2022 11:55 PM

Ferris was a bit of a dick and not in a good way. Movie was okay. Best part for me was Allen Ruck. SO MUCH MORE appealing than Ferris.

by Anonymousreply 89July 6, 2022 12:51 AM

Come on. Ferris made the movie, R89. I loved Cameron but if he was the star, we wouldn’t be talking about this film nearly four decades later.

by Anonymousreply 90June 23, 2023 11:48 PM

I enjoyed this movie very much when it was released. It was an entertaining escapist film, about a teen managing to take (yet another) day off, and in the end actually get away with it. It worked mostly because Matthew Broderick was charming enough to make Ferris likeable.

by Anonymousreply 91June 23, 2023 11:57 PM

"Life moves pretty fast .If ya don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it."

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by Anonymousreply 92June 24, 2023 1:24 AM

" Traffic moves pretty fast. If ya don't watch out which side of the road you're on you could slaughter two people"

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by Anonymousreply 93June 24, 2023 1:28 AM

This movie made me hate Broderick…

by Anonymousreply 94June 24, 2023 1:35 AM

Matthew Broderick should be jailed for letting his lovely twink body go to seed so badly.

But I can see how food was more appealing than sex with SJP.

I blame her smoking for his wrinkles.

by Anonymousreply 95June 24, 2023 10:49 AM

R92 Jeez ! When did Ferris Bueller morph into Mitch McConnell?

by Anonymousreply 96June 24, 2023 12:44 PM

Each day I find a new way to feel fucking old!

I remember seeing this in the theater as a little kid. The only time we really went to the movies was the summer, in part, so we could spend the afternoon in freezing cold temperatures for a couple of hours.

I particularly loved the part where Mr. Rooney is on the bus, and the weird girl offers him warm gummy bears.

by Anonymousreply 97June 24, 2023 12:57 PM

Sorry OP, not your fault but I despised all of the characters and the attitudes of the 1980s.

What a relief on January 1, 1990.

by Anonymousreply 98June 24, 2023 1:47 PM

1990 still looked and felt pretty much like the 80s.

by Anonymousreply 99June 24, 2023 3:33 PM

[QUOTE] Matthew Broderick should be jailed for letting his lovely twink body go to seed so badly.

How long do you expect a lovely twink body to last exactly, R95? The man is 61 years old now.

by Anonymousreply 100June 24, 2023 8:31 PM

Mia Sarapochiello was so charming and beautiful at this time, in Ferris and in Ridley Scott's Legend. I wonder why she didn't have a bigger career

by Anonymousreply 101June 24, 2023 8:35 PM

It was a bit sexy when Ferris is washing his cock in the shower and puts his hand up to the camera but is smirking behind it

by Anonymousreply 102June 24, 2023 9:13 PM
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