Skipping school, smooth talking, driving a 1961 Ferrari 250GT California, being the center of attention during a parade, catching baseballs at Wrigley Field during a Cubs game, and exploring the city of Chicago with his best friend and his girlfriend are all what makes the perfect day for Ferris Bueller. The popular high school senior does all this and more, while barely dodging being caught by his parents, sister, and the person who wants to bring him down the most? Mr. Rooney, his high school principal.
The 1986 comedy film and one of John Hughes’s classics, “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” stars Matthew Broderick as the title character who has one of the best days off from high school a kid can ever have. It’s Bueller’s last chance to have a great escapade and he knows exactly what he wants to do. Going along for the ride beside him is his best friend Cameron (Alan Ruck) and girlfriend Sloane (Mia Sara) who can never really figure out how Ferris is able to pull off everything.
In the beginning of the film, Ferris’s first hurdle to jump over is faking sick so he can get out of school. We’ve all done that, but he even includes instructions so that you don’t land in the doctor’s office. The next step is getting his girlfriend out of school. All he really has to do is make a phony phone call to the principal pretending to be Sloane’s father saying her grandmother has just passed away. Then Bueller has to make sure Mr. Rooney (Jeffrey Jones) won’t call back to the real father asking how everything is. After that ordeal, he just has to borrow Cameron’s father’s Ferrari because what else would the principal think Sloane’s father drives?
The way Bueller’s mind works in the movie is genius. He’s prepared for everything, except for trying to race his sister home on foot while she speeds in her car. He also doesn’t know that Mr. Rooney has been trying to catch him all day.
I would suggest this movie to anyone who is looking for a laugh and a movie that they would want to call a favorite. Watch the movie and help save Ferris!
