Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Director: John Hughes
Stars: Charlie Sheen, Mia Sara, Alan Ruck, Matthew Broderick, Jeffrey Jones, Jennifer Grey
Year:  1986 Running Time:  103 mins Rating: 5 out of 5 CERT: 15
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Matthew Broderick made his name as the irrepressible Chicago high-schooler who goes to extraordinary lengths to hoodwink parents and teachers that he's sick while playing truant. Indisputably the audience-winning plum in writer-director John Hughes' 80s purple patch. Trivia: Charlie Sheen, who has a cameo as a drunken biker, confessed that he didn't sleep for 48 hours to get the desired effect. He succeeded.

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A teenage comedy demonstrating the great lengths to which the irrepressible Ferris Bueller (Matthew Broderick) will go in order to hoodwink his parents and high school principal into thinking he's sick, when, in fact, all he wants to do is play truant for a day.

Irreverent attitude, cast sassiness, tons of rock music and all the other expected ingredients are present and as always, teen film maestro John Hughes presents his teenagers' feeling of superiority to adults as being totally justified.

In the adult camp, there's a pricelessly funny performance from Jeffrey Jones as the high school principal, driven nearly out of his mind in his frustrated pursuit of Ferris.

Ferris's sister is played by Jennifer Grey, soon to reach stardom in Dirty Dancing.

 

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