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Ferris Bueller's Day Off

January 26, 2023

"Ferris Bueller" redirects here. For the TV series, see Ferris Bueller (TV series).

Ferris Bueller's Day Off is a 1986 American teen comedy film written, co-produced, and directed by John Hughes and co-produced by Tom Jacobson. The film stars Matthew Broderick, Mia Sara, and Alan Ruck with supporting roles by Jennifer Grey, Jeffrey Jones, Cindy Pickett, Edie McClurg, and Lyman Ward. It tells the story of a high school slacker who skips school with his best friend and his girlfriend for a day in Chicago and regularly breaks the fourth wall to explain his techniques and inner thoughts.

Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Theatrical release poster
Directed byJohn Hughes
Written byJohn Hughes
Produced by
  • John Hughes
  • Tom Jacobson
Starring
CinematographyTak Fujimoto
Edited byPaul Hirsch
Music byIra Newborn
Distributed byParamount Pictures
Release date
  • June 11, 1986 (1986-06-11) (United States)
Running time
103 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$5 million[1]
Box office$70.7 million[2]

Hughes wrote the screenplay in less than a week. Filming began in September 1985 and finished in November, featuring many Chicago landmarks including the then Sears Tower, Wrigley Field and the Art Institute of Chicago. The film was Hughes's love letter to Chicago: "I really wanted to capture as much of Chicago as I could. Not just in the architecture and landscape, but the spirit."[3]

Released by Paramount Pictures on June 11, 1986, the film became the tenth-highest-grossing film of 1986 in the United States, grossing $70 million over a $5 million budget. The film received acclaim from critics and audiences who praised Broderick's performance, the humor, and the tone.

In 2014, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress, being deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."[4][5][6] The film was followed by a television series, starring Charlie Schlatter as title character. A spin-off film titled Sam & Victor's Day Off, focusing on the two valets who took Cameron's father's Ferrari on a joy ride, is in development for Paramount+.[7]

Plot

In a Chicago suburb one month before graduation, high school senior Ferris Bueller fakes illness to stay home from school. His parents believe he is ill, though his sister Jeannie does not. After learning Ferris stayed home for the day, the Dean of Students Ed Rooney is determined to expose Ferris's chronic truancy.

Ferris persuades his hypochondriac best friend Cameron Frye to help excuse Ferris's girlfriend Sloane Peterson from school on the grounds that her grandmother died. To complete the ruse that Sloane's father is picking her up from school, Ferris borrows Cameron's father's 1961 Ferrari 250 GT California Spyder. Cameron, who is afraid of his father's wrath, is dismayed when Ferris decides to take the car on a day trip into Chicago. Ferris promises they will return the car as it was, including preserving the original odometer mileage.

The trio leave the car with parking attendants, who promptly go on a long joyride. The three explore the city, with Ferris taking care to stay out of view from his father. They visit the Art Institute of Chicago, use deception to dine at an upscale restaurant, go to a Chicago Cubs baseball game, and attend the Von Steuben Day Parade, with Ferris jumping on a float and performing "Twist and Shout" by The Beatles.

Rooney prowls the Bueller home for Ferris, becoming victim to several pratfalls. Jeannie skips class and returns home to confront Ferris, but finds Rooney instead. Shocked by his appearance, she knocks him unconscious and calls the police, who later arrest her for making a false report. Rooney regains consciousness and leaves, only to find his car being impounded.

Upon collecting the Ferrari and heading home, Ferris and Cameron discover that the car's mileage has gone up significantly. Cameron becomes semi-catatonic from shock, but wakes up after falling into a pool. Back at Cameron's house, Ferris jacks up the car and runs it in reverse to rewind the odometer. This fails, and Cameron totals the car out of anger over his domineering father. Ferris offers to take the blame, but Cameron declines, deciding to stand up to his father.

After walking Sloane home, Ferris realizes his parents will be returning soon. He races on foot through the neighborhood, but is nearly hit by Jeannie who is driving their mother home. Jeannie fails to get her mother to notice Ferris. Ferris makes it home first, but Rooney confronts him before he can get back inside. Seeing the two through the window, Jeannie has a change of heart and allows Ferris to come inside. As Rooney flees from Ferris's Rottweiler, Ferris rushes back to his bedroom to await his parents. They find him in bed and believe he has been there all day.

Cast

 
Broderick in Sweden during his promotion of Ferris Bueller's Day Off, June 1986

John Hughes made his final on-screen appearance in a cameo role as a man running between the cabs, but was uncredited.

Production

Writing

As he was writing the film in 1985, John Hughes kept track of his progress in a spiral-bound logbook. He noted that the basic storyline was developed on February 25 and was successfully pitched the following day to Paramount Studios chief Ned Tanen. Tanen was intrigued by the concept, but wary that the Writers Guild of America was hours away from picketing the studio.[8] Hughes wrote the screenplay in less than a week.[9] Editor Paul Hirsch explained that Hughes had a trance-like concentration to his script-writing process, working for hours on end, and would later shoot the film on essentially what was his first draft of the script. "The first cut of Ferris Bueller's Day Off ended up at two hours, 45 minutes. The shortening of the script had to come in the cutting room", said Hirsch.[10] "Having the story episodic and taking place in one day...meant the characters were wearing the same clothes. I suspect that Hughes writes his scripts with few, if any costume changes just so he can have that kind of freedom in the editing."[10]

Hughes intended to focus more on the characters rather than the plot. "I know how the movie begins, I know how it ends", said Hughes. "I don't ever know the rest, but that doesn't seem to matter. It's not the events that are important, it's the characters going through the event. Therefore, I make them as full and real as I can. This time around, I wanted to create a character who could handle everyone and everything."[11]

Edward McNally was rumored as the inspiration for the character Ferris Bueller. McNally grew up on the same street as Hughes, had a best friend named "Buehler", and was relentlessly pursued by the school dean over his truancy, which amounted to 27 days absent, compared to Bueller's 9 in the film.[12]

Casting

Hughes said that he had Broderick in mind when he wrote the screenplay, saying Broderick was the only actor he could think of who could pull off the role, calling him clever and charming.[13] "Certain guys would have played Ferris and you would have thought, 'Where's my wallet?'" Hughes said. "I had to have that look; that charm had to come through. Jimmy Stewart could have played Ferris at 15...I needed Matthew."[13] Anthony Michael Hall, who had worked with Hughes on three previous films, was offered the part but turned it down as he was busy with other projects.[14][15] Other actors who were considered for the role included Jim Carrey,[16] John Cusack,[16] Johnny Depp,[17] Tom Cruise, and Michael J. Fox.[18]

Sara surprised Hughes when she auditioned for the role of Sloane Peterson. "It was funny," she said. "He didn't know how old I was and said he wanted an older girl to play the 17-year-old. He said it would take someone older to give her the kind of dignity she needed. He almost fell out of his chair when I told him I was only 18."[19] Molly Ringwald, who had also wanted to play Sloane, said, "John wouldn't let me do it: he said that the part wasn't big enough for me."[8]

Ruck had auditioned for the role of Bender in The Breakfast Club that went to Judd Nelson, but Hughes remembered Ruck and cast him as the 17-year-old Cameron Frye.[20] Hughes based the character of Cameron on a friend of his in high school: "He was sort of a lost person. His family neglected him, so he took that as license to really pamper himself. When he was legitimately sick, he actually felt good, because it was difficult and tiring to have to invent diseases but when he actually had something, he was relaxed."[21] Ruck said the role of Cameron had been offered to Emilio Estevez, who turned it down. "Every time I see Emilio, I want to kiss him," said Ruck. "Thank you!"[8] Ruck, then 29, worried about the age difference. (Ruck was only 6 years younger than director Hughes) "I was worried that I'd be 10 years out of step, and I wouldn't know anything about what was cool, what was hip, all that junk. But when I was going to high school, I didn't know any of that stuff then, either. So I just thought, well, hell—I'll just be me. The character, he's such a loner that he really wouldn't give a damn about that stuff anyway. He'd feel guilty that he didn't know it, but that's it."[20] Ruck was not surprised to find himself cast young. "No, because, really, when I was 18, I sort of looked 12," he said. "Maybe it's a genetic imbalance."[20]

Ruck and Broderick had previously acted together in the Broadway production of Biloxi Blues. Cameron's "Mr. Peterson" voice was an in-joke imitation of their former director Gene Saks.[8] Ruck felt at ease working with Broderick, often sleeping in his trailer. "We didn't have to invent an instant friendship like you often have to do in a movie," said Ruck. "We were friends."[8]

Jones was cast as Rooney based on his role in Amadeus, where he played the emperor; Hughes thought that character's modern equivalent was Rooney.[21] "My part was actually quite small in the script, but what seemed to be the important part to me was that I was the only one who wasn't swept along by Ferris," recalls Jones.[22] "So I was the only one in opposition, which presented a lot of opportunities, some of which weren't even in the script or were expanded on. John was receptive to anything I had to offer, and indeed got ideas along the way himself. So that was fun, working with him."[22] "Hughes told me at the time—and I thought he was just blowing his own horn—he said, 'You are going to be known for this for the rest of your life.' And I thought, 'Sure'... but he was right."[23] To help Jones study for the part, Hughes took him to meet his old vice principal. "This is the guy I want you to pay close attention to," Jones explained to Hughes' biographer Kirk Honeycutt. While meeting him, the VP's coat momentarily flew open revealing a holster and gun attached to the man's belt. This made Jones realize what Hughes had envisioned. "The guy was 'Sign up for the Army quick before I kill you!'" Jones exclaimed.[24]

Stein says he got the role of Bueller's Economics teacher through six degrees of separation.[25] "Richard Nixon introduced me to a man named Bill Safire, who's a New York Times columnist. He introduced me to a guy who's an executive at Warner Brothers. He introduced me to a guy who's a casting director. He introduced me to John Hughes. John Hughes and I are among the only Republicans in the picture business, and John Hughes put me in the movie," Stein said.[25] Hughes said that Stein was an easy and early choice for the role of the teacher: "He wasn't a professional actor. He had a flat voice, he looked like a teacher."[21]

Filming

 
Southeast view of the house in Los Cerritos in Long Beach, California, used in the film

"Chicago is what I am," said Hughes.[3] "A lot of Ferris is sort of my love letter to the city. And the more people who get upset with the fact that I film there, the more I'll make sure that's exactly where I film. It's funny—nobody ever says anything to Woody Allen about always filming in New York. America has this great reverence for New York. I look at it as this decaying horror pit. So let the people in Chicago enjoy Ferris Bueller."[3]

 
The Ben Rose House, in Highland Park, Illinois, served as the filming location for Cameron Frye's house.

For the film, Hughes got the chance to take a more expansive look at the city he grew up in. "We took a helicopter up the Chicago River. This is the first chance I'd really had to get outside while making a movie. Up to this point, the pictures had been pretty small. I really wanted to capture as much of Chicago as I could, not just the architecture and the landscape, but the spirit."[3] Shooting began in Chicago on September 9, 1985.[26] In late October 1985, the production moved to Los Angeles, and shooting ended on November 22.[27] The Von Steuben Day Parade scene was filmed on September 28. Scenes were filmed at several locations in downtown Chicago and Winnetka (Ferris's home, his mother's real estate office, etc.).[28] Many of the other scenes were filmed in Northbrook, Illinois, including at Glenbrook North High School.[29] The exterior of Ferris's house is located at 4160 Country Club Drive, Long Beach, California,[28] which, at the time of filming, was the childhood home of Judge Thad Balkman.[30]

The modernist house of Cameron Frye is located in Highland Park, Illinois. Known as the Ben Rose House,[31] it was designed by architects A. James Speyer, who designed the main building in 1954, and David Haid, who designed the pavilion in 1974. It was once owned by photographer Ben Rose, who had a car collection in the pavilion. In the film, Cameron's father is portrayed as owning a Ferrari 250 GT California in the same pavilion.[32] According to Lake Forest College art professor Franz Shulze, during the filming of the scene where the Ferrari crashes out of the window, Haid explained to Hughes that he could prevent the car from damaging the rest of the pavilion.[33] Haid fixed connections in the wall and the building remained intact. Haid said to Hughes afterward, "You owe me $25,000,” and which Hughes paid.[33] In the DVD commentary for the film, Hughes mentions that they had to remove every pane of glass from the house to film the car crash scene, since every pane was weakened by age and had acquired a similar tint, hence replacement panels would be obvious. Hughes added that they were able to use the house because producer Ned Tanen knew the owner because they were both Ferrari collectors.[34]

 
Hughes says The Art Institute of Chicago was a "place of refuge" in his youth.

According to Hughes, the scene at the Art Institute of Chicago was "a self-indulgent scene of mine—which was a place of refuge for me, I went there quite a bit, I loved it. I knew all the paintings, the building. This was a chance for me to go back into this building and show the paintings that were my favorite." The museum had not been shot in, until the producers of the film approached them.[21] "I remember Hughes saying, 'There are going to be more works of art in this movie than there have ever been before,'" recalled Jennifer Grey.[8] Among notable works featured in this scene include A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (Georges Seurat, 1884), during which Cameron struggles to find his identity in the face of one of the children in the painting, and America Windows (Marc Chagall, 1977), in front of which Ferris and Sloane have a romantic moment.[35]

According to editor Paul Hirsch, in the original cut, the museum scene fared poorly at test screenings until he switched sequences around and Hughes changed the soundtrack.[36]

The piece of music I originally chose was a classical guitar solo played on acoustic guitar. It was nonmetrical with a lot of rubato. I cut the sequence to that music and it also became nonmetrical and irregular. I thought it was great and so did Hughes. He loved it so much that he showed it to the studio but they just went "Ehhh." Then after many screenings where the audience said, “The museum scene is the scene we like least,” he decided to replace the music. We had all loved it, but the audience hated it. I said, “I think I know why they hate the museum scene. It's in the wrong place.” Originally, the parade sequence came before the museum sequence, but I realized that the parade was the highlight of the day, there was no way we could top it, so it had to be the last thing before the three kids go home. So that was agreed upon, we reshuffled the events of the day, and moved the museum sequence before the parade. Then we screened it and everybody loved the museum scene! My feeling was that they loved it because it came in at the right point in the sequence of events. John felt they loved it because of the music. Basically, the bottom line is, it worked.[36]

The music used for the final version of the museum sequence is an instrumental cover version of The Smiths' "Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want", performed by The Dream Academy. A passionate Beatles fan, Hughes makes multiple references to them and John Lennon in the script. During filming, Hughes "listened to The White Album every single day for fifty-six days."[37] Hughes also pays tribute to his childhood hero Gordie Howe with Cameron's Detroit Red Wings jersey.[38] "I sent them the jersey,” said Howe. "It was nice seeing the No. 9 on the big screen."[39]

Car

 
A 1961 Ferrari GT California

In the film, Ferris convinces Cameron to borrow his father's rare 1961 Ferrari 250 GT California Spyder. "The insert shots of the Ferrari were of the real 250 GT California," Hughes explains in the DVD commentary. "The cars we used in the wide shots were obviously reproductions. There were only 100 of these cars, so it was way too expensive to destroy. We had a number of replicas made. They were pretty good, but for the tight shots I needed a real one, so we brought one in to the stage and shot the inserts with it."[21]

Prior to filming, Hughes learned about Modena Design and Development that produced the Modena Spyder California, a replica of the Ferrari 250 GT.[40] Hughes saw a mention of the company in a car magazine and decided to research them. Neil Glassmoyer recalls the day Hughes contacted him to ask about seeing the Modena Spyder:

The first time he called I hung up on him because I thought it was a friend of mine who was given to practical jokes. Then he called back and convinced me it really was him, so Mark and I took the car to his office. While we were waiting outside to meet Hughes this scruffy-looking fellow came out of the building and began looking the car over; we thought from his appearance he must have been a janitor or something. Then he looked up at a window and shouted, 'This is it!' and several heads poked out to have a look. That scruffy-looking fellow was John Hughes, and the people in the window were his staff. Turned out it was between the Modena Spyder and a Porsche Turbo, and Hughes chose the Modena.[40]

Automobile restorationist Mark Goyette designed the kits for three reproductions used in the film and chronicled the whereabouts of the cars today:[41]

  1. "Built by Goyette and leased to Paramount for the filming. It's the one that jumps over the camera, and is used in almost every shot. At the end of filming, Paramount returned it to Goyette, with the exhaust crushed and cracks in the body. "There was quite a bit of superficial damage, but it held up amazingly well," he said. He rebuilt it, and sold it to a young couple in California. The husband later ran it off the road, and Goyette rebuilt the front end for him. That owner sold it in the mid-90s, and it turned up again around 2000, but hasn't emerged since."[41]
  2. "Sold to Paramount as a kit for them to assemble as their stunt car, they did such a poor job that it was basically unusable, aside from going backwards out the window of Cameron's house. Rebuilt, it ended up at Planet Hollywood in Minneapolis and was moved to Planet Hollywood in Cancun when this one was closed."[41]
  3. "Another kit, supposed to be built as a shell for the out the window scene, it was never completed at all, and disappeared after the film was completed. Goyette thinks he once heard it was eventually completed and sold off, but it could also still be in a back lot at Paramount."[41]

One of the "replicars" was sold by Bonhams on April 19, 2010, at the Royal Air Force Museum at Hendon, United Kingdom for £79,600 (equivalent to £108,578 in 2021).[42][43]

Another "replicar" used in the movie, serial number 001, referenced as the "hero car" that Goyette stated "hasn't emerged since" was sold at the 2020 Scottsdale Barrett-Jackson Collector Car Auction on January 18, 2020, for US$396,000 (equivalent to $414,636 in 2021).[44]

The "replicar" was "universally hated by the crew," said Ruck. "It didn't work right." The scene in which Ferris turns off the car to leave it with the garage attendant had to be shot a dozen times because it would not start.[8] The car was built with a real wheel base, but used a Ford V8 engine instead of a V12.[45] At the time of filming, the original 250 GT California model was worth $350,000.[8] Since the release of the film, it has become one of the most expensive cars ever sold, going at auction in 2008 for $10,976,000 (equivalent to $13,814,153 in 2021)[46] and more recently in 2015 for $16,830,000 (equivalent to $19,240,024 in 2021).[47] The vanity plate of Cameron's dad's Ferrari spells NRVOUS and the other plates seen in the film are homages to Hughes's earlier works, VCTN (National Lampoon's Vacation), TBC (The Breakfast Club), MMOM (Mr. Mom), as well as 4FBDO (Ferris Bueller's Day Off).

Economics lecture

Ben Stein's famous monotonous lecture about the Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act was not originally in Hughes's script. Stein, by happenstance, was lecturing off-camera to the amusement of the student cast. "I was just going to do it off camera, but the student extras laughed so hard when they heard my voice that (Hughes) said do it on camera, improvise, something you know a lot about. When I gave the lecture about supply-side economics, I thought they were applauding. Everybody on the set applauded. I thought they were applauding because they had learned something about supply-side economics. But they were applauding because they thought I was boring. ... It was the best day of my life," Stein said.[25]

Parade scene

The parade scene took multiple days of filming; Broderick spent some time practicing the dance moves. "I was very scared,” Broderick said. "Fortunately, the sequence was carefully choreographed beforehand. We worked out all the moves by rehearsing in a little studio. It was shot on two Saturdays in the heart of downtown Chicago. The first day was during a real parade, and John got some very long shots. Then radio stations carried announcements inviting people to take part in 'a John Hughes movie'. The word got around fast and 10,000 people showed up! For the final shot, I turned around and saw a river of people. I put my hands up at the end of the number and heard this huge roar. I can understand how rock stars feel. That kind of reaction feeds you."[48][49]

Broderick's moves were choreographed by Kenny Ortega (who later choreographed Dirty Dancing). Much of it had to be scrapped though as Broderick had injured his knee badly during the scenes of running through neighbors' backyards. "I was pretty sore,” Broderick said. "I got well enough to do what you see in the parade there, but I couldn't do most of Kenny Ortega's knee spins and things like that that we had worked on. When we did shoot it, we had all this choreography and I remember John would yell with a megaphone, 'Okay, do it again, but don't do any of the choreography,' because he wanted it to be a total mess." "Danke Schoen" was somewhat choreographed but for "Twist and Shout", Broderick said, "we were just making everything up,"[8] Hughes explained that much of the scene was spontaneously filmed. "It just happened that this was an actual parade, which we put our float into—unbeknownst to anybody, all the people on the reviewing stand. Nobody knew what it was, including the governor."[21]

Wrigley Field

 
Ferris Bueller Night at Wrigley Field, October 1, 2011.

Wrigley Field is featured in two interwoven and consecutive scenes. In the first scene, Rooney is looking for Ferris at a pizza joint while the voice of Harry Caray announces the action of a ballgame that is being shown on TV. From the play-by-play descriptions, the uniforms, and the player numbers, this game has been identified as the June 5, 1985, game between the Atlanta Braves and the Chicago Cubs.[26][50]

In the next scene, Sloane, Cameron, and Ferris are in the left field stands inside Wrigley. Ferris flexes his hand in pain after supposedly catching the foul ball. During this scene, the characters enjoy the game and joke about what they would be doing if they had played by the rules. All these "in the park" shots, including the one from the previous scene where Ferris catches the foul ball on TV, were filmed on September 24, 1985, at a game between the Montreal Expos and the Cubs. During the 1985 season, the Braves and the Expos both wore powder blue uniforms during their road games so, with seamless editing by Hirsch, it is difficult to distinguish that the game being seen and described in the pizza joint is not only a different game but also a different Cubs' opponent than the one filmed inside the stadium.[51]

On October 1, 2011, Wrigley Field celebrated the 25th anniversary of the film by showing it on three giant screens on the infield.[52]

Deleted scenes

Several scenes were cut from the final film; one lost scene titled "The Isles of Langerhans" has the three teenagers trying to order in the French restaurant, shocked to discover pancreas on the menu (although in the finished film, Ferris still says, "We ate pancreas,” while recapping the day). This is featured on the Bueller, Bueller Edition DVD. Other scenes were never made available on any DVD version.[53] These scenes included additional screen time with Jeannie in a locker room, Ferris's younger brother and sister (both of whom were completely removed from the film), and additional lines of dialogue throughout the film, all of which can be seen in the original theatrical trailer. Hughes had also wanted to film a scene where Ferris, Sloane, and Cameron go to a strip club. Paramount executives told him there were only so many shooting days left, so the scene was scrapped.[8]

According to former vice president of production for Paramount Pictures Lindsay Doran, an earlier version of the film included a line by Sloane to Cameron during the parade scene when they're discussing their future that resulted in very low scores from young female viewers during test screenings. In the scene, Sloane said, "A girl can always bail out and have a baby and get some guy to support her." "Girls hated that line," Doran recalls. "It was meant as an ironic criticism of gender politics," explained producer Tom Jacobson. "But it went over the heads of the audience and they thought maybe she was espousing them." After cutting the line, Doran said young female test scores skyrocketed approximately 40 points, which was the most dramatic test screening improvement through cutting a single line that she had ever seen.[54]

Music

Limited edition fan club soundtrack

An official soundtrack was not originally released for the film, since director John Hughes felt the songs would not work well together as a continuous album.[55] However, according to an interview with Lollipop Magazine, Hughes noted that he had sent 100,000 7" vinyl singles containing two songs featured in the film to members of his fan mailing list.[56]

Hughes gave further details about his refusal to release a soundtrack in the Lollipop interview:

The only official soundtrack that Ferris Bueller's Day Off ever had was for the mailing list. A&M was very angry with me over that; they begged me to put one out, but I thought "who'd want all of these songs?" I mean, would kids want "Danke Schoen" and "Oh Yeah" on the same record? They probably already had "Twist and Shout", or their parents did, and to put all of those together with the more contemporary stuff, like the (English) Beat—I just didn't think anybody would like it. But I did put together a seven-inch of the two songs I owned the rights to—"Beat City" on one side, and... I forget, one of the other English bands on the soundtrack... and sent that to the mailing list. By '86, '87, it was costing us $30 a piece to mail out 100,000 packages. But it was a labor of love.[56]

Songs in the film

Songs featured in the film include:

"Danke Schoen" is one of the recurring motifs in the film and is sung by Ferris, Ed Rooney, and Jeannie. Hughes called it the "most awful song of my youth. Every time it came on, I just wanted to scream, claw my face. I was taking German in high school—which meant that we listened to it in school. I couldn't get away from it."[21] According to Broderick, Ferris's singing "Danke Schoen" in the shower was his idea. "Although it's only because of the brilliance of John's deciding that I should sing "Danke Schoen" on the float in the parade. I had never heard the song before. I was learning it for the parade scene. So we're doing the shower scene and I thought, 'Well, I can do a little rehearsal.' And I did something with my hair to make that Mohawk. And you know what good directors do: they say; 'Stop! Wait until we roll.' And John put that stuff in."[57]

Wayne Newton told the Chicago Sun-Times he was thrilled to have his song featured in the film. "It was really cool because I thought, okay, 'Danke Schoen' had run its gamut. When I saw [Broderick] doing an impression, lip syncing to my version of the song, I thought that was the coolest thing I had ever seen."[58]

2016 soundtrack

Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Soundtrack album by
various artists
ReleasedSeptember 13, 2016
GenreNew wave
Length76:47
LabelLa-La Land Records

The soundtrack for the film, limited to 5,000 copies, was released on September 13, 2016 by La-La Land Records. The album includes new wave and pop songs featured in the film, as well as Ira Newborn's complete score, including unused cues.[59] Due to licensing restrictions, "Twist and Shout," "Taking The Day Off," and "March of the Swivelheads" were not included, but are available elsewhere. The Flowerpot Men's "Beat City" makes its first official release on CD with a new mix done by The Flowerpot Men's Ben Watkins and Adam Peters that differs from the original 7" fan club release.[59][60]

Reception

Critical response

The film largely received positive reviews from critics. Roger Ebert gave it three out of four stars, calling it "one of the most innocent movies in a long time," and "a sweet, warm-hearted comedy."[61] Richard Roeper called the film: "one of my favorite movies of all time. It has one of the highest 'repeatability' factors of any film I've ever seen... I can watch it again and again. There's also this, and I say it in all sincerity: Ferris Bueller's Day Off is something of a suicide prevention film, or at the very least a story about a young man trying to help his friend gain some measure of self-worth... Ferris has made it his mission to show Cameron that the whole world in front of him is passing him by, and that life can be pretty sweet if you wake up and embrace it. That's the lasting message of Ferris Bueller's Day Off."[62] Roeper pays homage to the film with a license plate that reads "SVFRRIS".[63]

Conservative columnist George Will hailed Ferris as "the moviest movie," a film "most true to the general spirit of the movies, the spirit of effortless escapism."[64] Essayist Steve Almond called Ferris "the most sophisticated teen movie [he] had ever seen," adding that while Hughes had made a lot of good movies, Ferris was the "one film [he] would consider true art, [the] only one that reaches toward the ecstatic power of teendom and, at the same time, exposes the true, piercing woe of that age." Almond also applauded Ruck's performance, going so far as saying he deserved the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor of 1986: "His performance is what elevates the film, allows it to assume the power of a modern parable."[65] The New York Times reviewer Nina Darnton criticized Mia Sara's portrayal of Sloane for lacking "the specific detail that characterized the adolescent characters in Hughes's other films," asserting she "created a basically stable but forgettable character."[66][67] Conversely, Darnton praised Ruck and Grey's performances: "The two people who grow in the movie—Cameron, played with humor and sensitivity by Alan Ruck, and Ferris's sister Jeannie, played with appropriate self-pity by Jennifer Grey—are the most authentic. Grey manages to play an insufferably sulky teen-ager who is still attractive and likable."[66]

Co-star Ben Stein was exceptionally moved by the film, calling it "the most life-affirming movie possibly of the entire post-war period."[68] "This is to comedies what Gone with the Wind is to epics," Stein added. "It will never die, because it responds to and calls forth such human emotions. It isn't dirty. There's nothing mean-spirited about it. There's nothing sneering or sniggering about it. It's just wholesome. We want to be free. We want to have a good time. We know we're not going to be able to all our lives. We know we're going to have to buckle down and work. We know we’re going to have to eventually become family men and women, and have responsibilities and pay our bills. But just give us a couple of good days that we can look back on."[69]

National Review writer Mark Hemingway lauded the film's celebration of liberty. "If there's a better celluloid expression of ordinary American freedom than Ferris Bueller's Day Off, I have yet to see it. If you could take one day and do absolutely anything, piling into a convertible with your best girl and your best friend and taking in a baseball game, an art museum, and a fine meal seems about as good as it gets," wrote Hemingway.[70]

Others were less enamored with Ferris, many taking issue with the film's "rebel without a cause" hedonism. David Denby of New York Magazine, called the film "a nauseating distillation of the slack, greedy side of Reaganism."[71] Author Christina Lee agreed, adding it was a "splendidly ridiculous exercise in unadulterated indulgence," and the film "encapsulated the Reagan era's near solipsist worldview and insatiable appetite for immediate gratification—of living in and for the moment..."[72] Gene Siskel panned the film from a Chicago-centric perspective, saying: "Ferris Bueller doesn't do anything much fun ... [t]hey don't even sit in the bleachers where all the kids like to sit when they go to Cubs games."[73] Siskel did enjoy the chemistry between Jennifer Grey and Charlie Sheen. Ebert thought Siskel was too eager to find flaws in the film's view of Chicago.[73]

On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 81% based on 73 critics' reviews, with an average rating of 7.70/10. The website's critical consensus reads: "Matthew Broderick charms in Ferris Bueller's Day Off, a light and irrepressibly fun movie about being young and having fun."[74] Metacritic gave the film a score of 61 based on 13 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[75] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A−" on an A+ to F scale.[76]

Accolades

Broderick was nominated for a Golden Globe Award in 1987 for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy.[77]

Box office

The film opened in 1,330 theaters in the United States, and had a total weekend gross of $6,275,647 . Opening at No. 2. Ferris Bueller's Day Off's total gross in the United States was approximately $70,136,369, making it a box office success.[2] It subsequently became the 10th-highest-grossing film of 1986.[78]

Rankings

As an influential and popular film, Ferris Bueller's Day Off has been included in many film rating lists. The film is number 54 on Bravo's "100 Funniest Movies", came 26th in the British 50 Greatest Comedy Films and ranked number 10 on Entertainment Weekly's list of the "50 Best High School Movies".[79]

Cultural impact

 
Barbara Bush used dialogue from the film at a commencement speech[80]

U.S. President Ronald Reagan viewed the film at Camp David on June 21, 1986.[81]

Hughes said of Bueller, "That kid will either become President of the United States or go to prison."[82] First Lady Barbara Bush paraphrased the film in her 1990 commencement address at Wellesley College: "Find the joy in life, because as Ferris Bueller said on his day off, 'Life moves pretty fast; if you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it!'" Responding to the audience's enthusiastic applause, she added "I'm not going to tell George you clapped more for Ferris than you clapped for George."[80][83]

Other phrases from Ferris Bueller's Day Off such as Stein's monotone-voiced "Bueller? ...Bueller? ...Bueller?" (while taking roll call in class), and "Anyone? Anyone?" (trying to probe the students for answers) as well as Kristy Swanson's cheerful "No problem whatsoever!" also permeated popular culture.[84] In fact, Stein's monotone performance launched his acting career.[85] In 2016, Stein reprised the attendance scene in a campaign ad[86] for Iowa Senator Charles Grassley; Stein intoned the last name of Grassley's opponent (Patty Judge), to silence, while facts about her missed votes and absences from state board meetings were listed. Stein then calls out "Grassley," which gets a response; Stein mutters, "He's always here."[87]

Broderick said of the Ferris Bueller role, "It eclipsed everything, I should admit, and to some degree it still does."[8] Later at the 2010 Oscar tribute to Hughes, he said, "For the past 25 years, nearly every day someone comes up to me, taps me on the shoulder and says, 'Hey, Ferris, is this your day off?'"[88]

Ruck says that with Cameron Frye, Hughes gave him "the best part I ever had in a movie, and any success that I've had since 1985 is because he took a big chance on me. I'll be forever grateful."[89] "While we were making the movie, I just knew I had a really good part", Ruck says. "My realization of John's impact on the teen-comedy genre crept in sometime later. Teen comedies tend to dwell on the ridiculous, as a rule. It's always the preoccupation with sex and the self-involvement, and we kind of hold the kids up for ridicule in a way. Hughes added this element of dignity. He was an advocate for teenagers as complete human beings, and he honored their hopes and their dreams. That's what you see in his movies."[89]

Matthew Broderick reprises his role of Ferris Bueller in the end credits for She's Having a Baby. He is among the people that pitch the names of Jake and Kristy's baby son.[90]

Broderick starred in a television advertisement prepared by Honda promoting its CR-V for the 2012 Super Bowl XLVI. The ad pays homage to Ferris Bueller, featuring Broderick (as himself) faking illness to skip out of work to enjoy sightseeing around Los Angeles. Several elements, such as the use of the song "Oh Yeah", and a valet monotonously calling for "Broderick... Broderick...", appear in the ad. A teaser for the ad had appeared two weeks prior to the Super Bowl, which had created rumors of a possible film sequel.[91] It was produced by Santa Monica-based RPA and directed by Todd Phillips.[92] AdWeek's Tim Nudd called the ad "a great homage to the original 1986 film, with Broderick this time calling in sick to a film shoot and enjoying another day of slacking."[92] On the other hand, Jalopnik's Matt Hardigree called the spot "sacrilegious".[93][94]

The film has been parodied in television series, with characters taking a day off from their normal routine to have a day of adventure. Examples include the episodes "Barry's Day Off" from The Goldbergs,[95] "Brian Finch's Black Op" from Limitless,[96] and "Turner's and Brenda's Day Off" from South Side.[97]

In March 2017, Domino's Pizza began an advertising campaign parodying the film, featuring actor Joe Keery in the lead role.[98]

Early in 2020, internet personality Zach King released a short film parody on his YouTube channel.[99][100]

In September 2020, LiftMaster released a commercial where two young boys attempt to drive a 1966 Jaguar E-Type owned by the father of one of the boys. The commercial, advertising the Liftmaster Secure View, a security system built into the device, features Alan Ruck as an older Cameron Frye, who warns the boys after catching them on camera. He then speaks to the audience "Been there, done that."[101][102]

Music

 
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The film's influence in popular culture extends beyond the film itself to how musical elements of the film have been received as well, for example, Yello's song "Oh Yeah". As Jonathan Bernstein explains, "Never a hit, this slice of Swiss-made tomfoolery with its varispeed vocal effects and driving percussion was first used by John Hughes to illustrate the mouthwatering must-haveness of Cameron's dad's Ferrari. Since then, it has become synonymous with avarice. Every time a movie, TV show or commercial wants to underline the jaw-dropping impact of a hot babe or sleek auto, that synth-drum starts popping and that deep voice rumbles, 'Oh yeah . . .'"[103] Yello was unheard of in the United States at the time, but the inclusion of their song in Ferris Bueller and The Secret of My Success the following year sparked great interest in the song, where it reached the Billboard Hot 100 and US Dance charts in 1987.[104][105] It often became referred to as "the Ferris Bueller song" due to its attachment with the movie.[106] Dieter Meier of Yello was able to use the licensing fees from "Oh Yeah"'s appearance in Ferris Bueller and other films to start a series of investments and amassed a large fortune.[107]

 
While Paul McCartney admitted that he liked the movie, he personally disliked the "Twist and Shout" sequence for its inclusion of brass instruments.[108]

Concerning the influence of another song used in the film, Roz Kaveney writes that some "of the finest moments in later teen film draw on Ferris's blithe Dionysian fervour — the elaborate courtship by song in 10 Things I Hate About You (1999) draws usefully on the "Twist and Shout" sequence in Ferris Bueller's Day Off".[109] "Twist and Shout" charted again, 16 years after the Beatles broke up, as a result of its prominent appearance in both this film and Back to School (where Rodney Dangerfield performs a cover version) which was released the same weekend as Ferris Bueller's Day Off. The re-released single reached No. 23 in the U.S; a US-only compilation album containing the track The Early Beatles, re-entered the album charts at No. 197. The version heard in the film includes brass overdubbed onto the Beatles' original recording, which did not go down well with Paul McCartney. "I liked [the] film but they overdubbed some lousy brass on the stuff! If it had needed brass, we'd had stuck it on ourselves!"[108] Upon hearing McCartney's reaction, Hughes felt bad for "offend[ing] a Beatle. But it wasn't really part of the song. We saw a band [onscreen] and we needed to hear the instruments."[21]

The bands Save Ferris and Rooney were named in allusion to Ferris Bueller's Day Off.[110]

Academic analysis

Many scholars have discussed at length the film's depiction of academia and youth culture. For Martin Morse Wooster, the film "portrayed teachers as humorless buffoons whose only function was to prevent teenagers from having a good time.”[111] Regarding not specifically teachers, but rather a type of adult characterization in general, Art Silverblatt asserts that the "adults in Ferris Bueller's Day Off are irrelevant and impotent. Ferris's nemesis, the school disciplinarian, Mr. Rooney, is obsessed with 'getting Bueller.' His obsession emerges from envy. Strangely, Ferris serves as Rooney's role model, as he clearly possesses the imagination and power that Rooney lacks. ... By capturing and disempowering Ferris, Rooney hopes to ... reduce Ferris's influence over other students, which would reestablish adults, that is, Rooney, as traditional authority figures."[112] Nevertheless, Silverblatt concludes that "Rooney is essentially a comedic figure, whose bumbling attempts to discipline Ferris are a primary source of humor in the film.”[112] Thomas Patrick Doherty writes that "the adult villains in teenpics such as ... Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) are overdrawn caricatures, no real threat; they're played for laughs.”[113] Yet Silverblatt also remarks that casting "the principal as a comic figure questions the competence of adults to provide young people with effective direction—indeed, the value of adulthood itself.”[112]

Adults are not the stars or main characters of the film, and Roz Kaveney notes that what "Ferris Bueller brings to the teen genre, ultimately, is a sense of how it is possible to be cool and popular without being rich or a sports hero. Unlike the heroes of Weird Science, Ferris is computer savvy without being a nerd or a geek—it is a skill he has taken the trouble to learn."[114]

In 2010, English comedian Dan Willis performed his show "Ferris Bueller's Way Of..." at the Edinburgh Festival, delving into the philosophy of the movie and looking for life answers within.[115]

Home media and other releases

The film has been released on DVD three times; including on October 19, 1999, on January 10, 2006, as the Bueller... Bueller edition, and the I Love the '80s edition August 19, 2008.[116] The original DVD, like most Paramount Pictures films released on DVD for the first time, has very few bonus features, but it does feature a commentary by Hughes. Though this is no longer available for sale, the director's commentary is available.[117] The DVD was issued in the United States on October 19, 1999, the United Kingdom on July 31, 2000, Germany on August 3, 2000, Denmark on August 9, 2000, Brazil on June 25, 2001, and Canada on March 9, 2004. The North American DVDs include a Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound English audio track, a mono version of the French dub, and English subtitles. The German, Danish, and UK DVD includes the English and French audio as well as mono dubs in German, Italian, and Spanish. The German and Danish release features English, French, German, Portuguese, Bulgarian, Croatian, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Icelandic, Norwegian, Swedish, and Turkish subtitles, the UK including those minus the Finnish subtitles and plus the Romanian subs. The Brazilian DVD only has the English audio and English, Portuguese and Spanish subtitles.

The Bueller... Bueller DVD re-release has several more bonus features, but does not contain the commentary track of the original DVD release. The edition was released in the United States on January 10, 2006, Sweden on April 12, 2006, Spain on April 18, 2006, and the United Kingdom on May 29, 2006. The I Love the '80s edition is identical to the first DVD release (no features aside from commentary), but includes a bonus CD with songs from the 1980s. The songs are not featured in the film. The Bueller... Bueller edition has multiple bonus features such as interviews with the cast and crew, along with a clip of Stein's commentaries on the film's philosophy and impact.[116]

Bueller... Bueller... editions were also the first Blu-ray releases of Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Blu-rays of the edition were released in the United States and Canada on May 5, 2009; Australia on June 16, 2009; Brazil on July 20, 2009; and United Kingdom on February 1, 2010. All of these Blu-rays feature a Dolby TrueHD audio track of the English version, with mono versions of the French and Spanish dubs; they also include English, French, Spanish and Portuguese subtitles. A 25th anniversary edition for DVD and Blu-ray were both released on August 2, 2011, in North America.

On October 18, 2004, Ferris Bueller's Day Off was issued as part of a UK Digipack DVD collection by Paramount Pictures named I Love 80s Movies: John Hughes Classic 80s, which also included Pretty in Pink (1986), Planes, Trains, and Automobiles (1987), and Some Kind of Wonderful (1987). It was later part of the United States Warner Bros. DVD set 5 Film Collection: 80's Comedy, issued on September 30, 2014, and also including Planes, Trains and Automobiles, The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988), Airplane! (1980), and Police Academy (1984); the collection also included digital files of the films. On October 3, 2017, it was released in the United States as part of the DVD collection 5 Iconic Films of the 80s that also included The Naked Gun, Some Kind of Wonderful, Crocodile Dundee (1986), and Harlem Nights (1989). The film also appeared on two Blu-ray collections: Australia's Films That Define A Decade – 80s Collection released on April 12, 2017, and France's Pop Culture Anthology 20 Films Cultes Blu-ray issued on October 17, 2018.

In the United Kingdom, an 80s Collection edition with new artwork was released on DVD in 2018 with the same six bonus features as the 2006 issue.[118]

In 2016 Paramount, Turner Classic Movies, and Fathom Events re-released the film and Pretty in Pink to celebrate their 30th anniversary.[119]

Most Blu-ray debuts of Ferris Bueller's Day Off in most foreign-language countries took place in 2019; the film was released to the format in France on January 9, 2019, Germany on February 7, 2019, Italy on March 13, 2019, Japan on April 24, 2019, and Spain on May 3, 2019. The Italy, Germany, and Spain Blu-rays includes French, German, Italian, and Spanish dubs; and Italian, English, French, German, Japanese, Spanish, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Norwegian, and Swedish subtitles. The French and Japanese Blu-rays, however, are limited to subtitle and audio options of their respective languages. VHS retro packing Blu-ray editions of the film have only been issued as retailer exclusives. In Australia on December 6, 2017, JB Hi-Fi issued a 1000-copies-only "Rewind Collection" edition of the VHS-retro-packaged Blu-ray that also includes a DVD disc, a toy figure, props from the film, and other memorabilia. On July 30, 2018, HMV exclusively released the same limited edition in the United Kingdom.

Follow-ups

Interquel

Broderick and Hughes stayed in touch for a while after production. "We thought about a sequel to Ferris Bueller, where he'd be in college or at his first job, and the same kind of things would happen again. But neither of us found a very exciting hook to that. The movie is about a singular time in your life."[57] "Ferris Bueller is about the week before you leave school, it's about the end of school— in some way, it doesn't have a sequel. It's a little moment and it's a lightning flash in your life. I mean, you could try to repeat it in college or something but it's a time that you don't keep. So that's partly why I think we couldn't think of another," Broderick added.

"But just for fun," said Ruck, "I used to think why don't they wait until Matthew and I are in our seventies and do Ferris Bueller Returns and have Cameron be in a nursing home. He doesn't really need to be there, but he just decided his life is over, so he committed himself to a nursing home. And Ferris comes and breaks him out. And they go to, like, a titty bar and all this ridiculous stuff happens. And then, at the end of the movie, Cameron dies."[8]

In August 2022, a spin-off interquel film entitled Sam & Victor's Day Off, was announced to be in development for the streaming service Paramount+. Taking place during the events of Ferris Bueller's Day Off and focusing on the two titular valets who took Cameron's father's 1961 Ferrari 250 GT California Spyder on a joy ride (originally portrayed in the film by Richard Edson and Larry "Flash" Jenkins), the film would be produced by Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg, and Josh Heald, and written by Bill Posley.[120]

Television series

Main article: Ferris Bueller (TV series)

In 1990, a television series titled Ferris Bueller started airing on NBC. It starred Charlie Schlatter as Ferris Bueller and Jennifer Aniston as Jeannie Bueller.[121] Jennifer Aniston and Jennifer Grey would subsequently appear together in one episode of the sitcom Friends, their characters (Rachel and Mindy) being the former and current fiancée of Barry Farber. Mindy returns in one further episode but played by another actress.

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Ferris Bueller redirects here For the TV series see Ferris Bueller TV series Ferris Bueller s Day Off is a 1986 American teen comedy film written co produced and directed by John Hughes and co produced by Tom Jacobson The film stars Matthew Broderick Mia Sara and Alan Ruck with supporting roles by Jennifer Grey Jeffrey Jones Cindy Pickett Edie McClurg and Lyman Ward It tells the story of a high school slacker who skips school with his best friend and his girlfriend for a day in Chicago and regularly breaks the fourth wall to explain his techniques and inner thoughts Ferris Bueller s Day OffTheatrical release posterDirected byJohn HughesWritten byJohn HughesProduced byJohn HughesTom JacobsonStarringMatthew Broderick Mia Sara Alan RuckCinematographyTak FujimotoEdited byPaul HirschMusic byIra NewbornDistributed byParamount PicturesRelease dateJune 11 1986 1986 06 11 United States Running time103 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglishBudget 5 million 1 Box office 70 7 million 2 Hughes wrote the screenplay in less than a week Filming began in September 1985 and finished in November featuring many Chicago landmarks including the then Sears Tower Wrigley Field and the Art Institute of Chicago The film was Hughes s love letter to Chicago I really wanted to capture as much of Chicago as I could Not just in the architecture and landscape but the spirit 3 Released by Paramount Pictures on June 11 1986 the film became the tenth highest grossing film of 1986 in the United States grossing 70 million over a 5 million budget The film received acclaim from critics and audiences who praised Broderick s performance the humor and the tone In 2014 the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress being deemed culturally historically or aesthetically significant 4 5 6 The film was followed by a television series starring Charlie Schlatter as title character A spin off film titled Sam amp Victor s Day Off focusing on the two valets who took Cameron s father s Ferrari on a joy ride is in development for Paramount 7 Contents 1 Plot 2 Cast 3 Production 3 1 Writing 3 2 Casting 3 3 Filming 3 3 1 Car 3 3 2 Economics lecture 3 3 3 Parade scene 3 3 4 Wrigley Field 3 4 Deleted scenes 4 Music 4 1 Limited edition fan club soundtrack 4 2 Songs in the film 4 3 2016 soundtrack 5 Reception 5 1 Critical response 5 2 Accolades 5 3 Box office 5 4 Rankings 6 Cultural impact 6 1 Music 7 Academic analysis 8 Home media and other releases 9 Follow ups 9 1 Interquel 9 2 Television series 10 References 11 External linksPlot EditIn a Chicago suburb one month before graduation high school senior Ferris Bueller fakes illness to stay home from school His parents believe he is ill though his sister Jeannie does not After learning Ferris stayed home for the day the Dean of Students Ed Rooney is determined to expose Ferris s chronic truancy Ferris persuades his hypochondriac best friend Cameron Frye to help excuse Ferris s girlfriend Sloane Peterson from school on the grounds that her grandmother died To complete the ruse that Sloane s father is picking her up from school Ferris borrows Cameron s father s 1961 Ferrari 250 GT California Spyder Cameron who is afraid of his father s wrath is dismayed when Ferris decides to take the car on a day trip into Chicago Ferris promises they will return the car as it was including preserving the original odometer mileage The trio leave the car with parking attendants who promptly go on a long joyride The three explore the city with Ferris taking care to stay out of view from his father They visit the Art Institute of Chicago use deception to dine at an upscale restaurant go to a Chicago Cubs baseball game and attend the Von Steuben Day Parade with Ferris jumping on a float and performing Twist and Shout by The Beatles Rooney prowls the Bueller home for Ferris becoming victim to several pratfalls Jeannie skips class and returns home to confront Ferris but finds Rooney instead Shocked by his appearance she knocks him unconscious and calls the police who later arrest her for making a false report Rooney regains consciousness and leaves only to find his car being impounded Upon collecting the Ferrari and heading home Ferris and Cameron discover that the car s mileage has gone up significantly Cameron becomes semi catatonic from shock but wakes up after falling into a pool Back at Cameron s house Ferris jacks up the car and runs it in reverse to rewind the odometer This fails and Cameron totals the car out of anger over his domineering father Ferris offers to take the blame but Cameron declines deciding to stand up to his father After walking Sloane home Ferris realizes his parents will be returning soon He races on foot through the neighborhood but is nearly hit by Jeannie who is driving their mother home Jeannie fails to get her mother to notice Ferris Ferris makes it home first but Rooney confronts him before he can get back inside Seeing the two through the window Jeannie has a change of heart and allows Ferris to come inside As Rooney flees from Ferris s Rottweiler Ferris rushes back to his bedroom to await his parents They find him in bed and believe he has been there all day Cast Edit Broderick in Sweden during his promotion of Ferris Bueller s Day Off June 1986 Matthew Broderick as Ferris Bueller a popular high school senior Alan Ruck as Cameron Frye Ferris s best friend Mia Sara as Sloane Peterson Ferris s girlfriend Jennifer Grey as Jeanie Bueller Ferris s sister Jeffrey Jones as Ed Rooney the Dean of Students Cindy Pickett as Katie Bueller Ferris s mother Edie McClurg as Grace the school secretary Lyman Ward as Tom Bueller Ferris s father Charlie Sheen as a boy in the police station Ben Stein as the economics teacher Del Close as the English teacher Virginia Capers as Florence Sparrow the school nurse Richard Edson as a garage attendant Larry Flash Jenkins as the garage attendant s co pilot Kristy Swanson as an economics student Max Perlich as an economics student T Scott Coffey as an economics student Anne Ryan as Shermerite Jonathan Schmock as Chez Quis Maitre d Louie Anderson as a flower deliveryman Stephanie Blake as a singing nurse Dee Dee Rescher as a bus driver who picks up Rooney during the credits John Hughes made his final on screen appearance in a cameo role as a man running between the cabs but was uncredited Production EditWriting Edit As he was writing the film in 1985 John Hughes kept track of his progress in a spiral bound logbook He noted that the basic storyline was developed on February 25 and was successfully pitched the following day to Paramount Studios chief Ned Tanen Tanen was intrigued by the concept but wary that the Writers Guild of America was hours away from picketing the studio 8 Hughes wrote the screenplay in less than a week 9 Editor Paul Hirsch explained that Hughes had a trance like concentration to his script writing process working for hours on end and would later shoot the film on essentially what was his first draft of the script The first cut of Ferris Bueller s Day Off ended up at two hours 45 minutes The shortening of the script had to come in the cutting room said Hirsch 10 Having the story episodic and taking place in one day meant the characters were wearing the same clothes I suspect that Hughes writes his scripts with few if any costume changes just so he can have that kind of freedom in the editing 10 Hughes intended to focus more on the characters rather than the plot I know how the movie begins I know how it ends said Hughes I don t ever know the rest but that doesn t seem to matter It s not the events that are important it s the characters going through the event Therefore I make them as full and real as I can This time around I wanted to create a character who could handle everyone and everything 11 Edward McNally was rumored as the inspiration for the character Ferris Bueller McNally grew up on the same street as Hughes had a best friend named Buehler and was relentlessly pursued by the school dean over his truancy which amounted to 27 days absent compared to Bueller s 9 in the film 12 Casting Edit Hughes said that he had Broderick in mind when he wrote the screenplay saying Broderick was the only actor he could think of who could pull off the role calling him clever and charming 13 Certain guys would have played Ferris and you would have thought Where s my wallet Hughes said I had to have that look that charm had to come through Jimmy Stewart could have played Ferris at 15 I needed Matthew 13 Anthony Michael Hall who had worked with Hughes on three previous films was offered the part but turned it down as he was busy with other projects 14 15 Other actors who were considered for the role included Jim Carrey 16 John Cusack 16 Johnny Depp 17 Tom Cruise and Michael J Fox 18 Sara surprised Hughes when she auditioned for the role of Sloane Peterson It was funny she said He didn t know how old I was and said he wanted an older girl to play the 17 year old He said it would take someone older to give her the kind of dignity she needed He almost fell out of his chair when I told him I was only 18 19 Molly Ringwald who had also wanted to play Sloane said John wouldn t let me do it he said that the part wasn t big enough for me 8 Ruck had auditioned for the role of Bender in The Breakfast Club that went to Judd Nelson but Hughes remembered Ruck and cast him as the 17 year old Cameron Frye 20 Hughes based the character of Cameron on a friend of his in high school He was sort of a lost person His family neglected him so he took that as license to really pamper himself When he was legitimately sick he actually felt good because it was difficult and tiring to have to invent diseases but when he actually had something he was relaxed 21 Ruck said the role of Cameron had been offered to Emilio Estevez who turned it down Every time I see Emilio I want to kiss him said Ruck Thank you 8 Ruck then 29 worried about the age difference Ruck was only 6 years younger than director Hughes I was worried that I d be 10 years out of step and I wouldn t know anything about what was cool what was hip all that junk But when I was going to high school I didn t know any of that stuff then either So I just thought well hell I ll just be me The character he s such a loner that he really wouldn t give a damn about that stuff anyway He d feel guilty that he didn t know it but that s it 20 Ruck was not surprised to find himself cast young No because really when I was 18 I sort of looked 12 he said Maybe it s a genetic imbalance 20 Ruck and Broderick had previously acted together in the Broadway production of Biloxi Blues Cameron s Mr Peterson voice was an in joke imitation of their former director Gene Saks 8 Ruck felt at ease working with Broderick often sleeping in his trailer We didn t have to invent an instant friendship like you often have to do in a movie said Ruck We were friends 8 Jones was cast as Rooney based on his role in Amadeus where he played the emperor Hughes thought that character s modern equivalent was Rooney 21 My part was actually quite small in the script but what seemed to be the important part to me was that I was the only one who wasn t swept along by Ferris recalls Jones 22 So I was the only one in opposition which presented a lot of opportunities some of which weren t even in the script or were expanded on John was receptive to anything I had to offer and indeed got ideas along the way himself So that was fun working with him 22 Hughes told me at the time and I thought he was just blowing his own horn he said You are going to be known for this for the rest of your life And I thought Sure but he was right 23 To help Jones study for the part Hughes took him to meet his old vice principal This is the guy I want you to pay close attention to Jones explained to Hughes biographer Kirk Honeycutt While meeting him the VP s coat momentarily flew open revealing a holster and gun attached to the man s belt This made Jones realize what Hughes had envisioned The guy was Sign up for the Army quick before I kill you Jones exclaimed 24 Stein says he got the role of Bueller s Economics teacher through six degrees of separation 25 Richard Nixon introduced me to a man named Bill Safire who s a New York Times columnist He introduced me to a guy who s an executive at Warner Brothers He introduced me to a guy who s a casting director He introduced me to John Hughes John Hughes and I are among the only Republicans in the picture business and John Hughes put me in the movie Stein said 25 Hughes said that Stein was an easy and early choice for the role of the teacher He wasn t a professional actor He had a flat voice he looked like a teacher 21 Filming Edit Southeast view of the house in Los Cerritos in Long Beach California used in the film Chicago is what I am said Hughes 3 A lot of Ferris is sort of my love letter to the city And the more people who get upset with the fact that I film there the more I ll make sure that s exactly where I film It s funny nobody ever says anything to Woody Allen about always filming in New York America has this great reverence for New York I look at it as this decaying horror pit So let the people in Chicago enjoy Ferris Bueller 3 The Ben Rose House in Highland Park Illinois served as the filming location for Cameron Frye s house For the film Hughes got the chance to take a more expansive look at the city he grew up in We took a helicopter up the Chicago River This is the first chance I d really had to get outside while making a movie Up to this point the pictures had been pretty small I really wanted to capture as much of Chicago as I could not just the architecture and the landscape but the spirit 3 Shooting began in Chicago on September 9 1985 26 In late October 1985 the production moved to Los Angeles and shooting ended on November 22 27 The Von Steuben Day Parade scene was filmed on September 28 Scenes were filmed at several locations in downtown Chicago and Winnetka Ferris s home his mother s real estate office etc 28 Many of the other scenes were filmed in Northbrook Illinois including at Glenbrook North High School 29 The exterior of Ferris s house is located at 4160 Country Club Drive Long Beach California 28 which at the time of filming was the childhood home of Judge Thad Balkman 30 The modernist house of Cameron Frye is located in Highland Park Illinois Known as the Ben Rose House 31 it was designed by architects A James Speyer who designed the main building in 1954 and David Haid who designed the pavilion in 1974 It was once owned by photographer Ben Rose who had a car collection in the pavilion In the film Cameron s father is portrayed as owning a Ferrari 250 GT California in the same pavilion 32 According to Lake Forest College art professor Franz Shulze during the filming of the scene where the Ferrari crashes out of the window Haid explained to Hughes that he could prevent the car from damaging the rest of the pavilion 33 Haid fixed connections in the wall and the building remained intact Haid said to Hughes afterward You owe me 25 000 and which Hughes paid 33 In the DVD commentary for the film Hughes mentions that they had to remove every pane of glass from the house to film the car crash scene since every pane was weakened by age and had acquired a similar tint hence replacement panels would be obvious Hughes added that they were able to use the house because producer Ned Tanen knew the owner because they were both Ferrari collectors 34 Hughes says The Art Institute of Chicago was a place of refuge in his youth According to Hughes the scene at the Art Institute of Chicago was a self indulgent scene of mine which was a place of refuge for me I went there quite a bit I loved it I knew all the paintings the building This was a chance for me to go back into this building and show the paintings that were my favorite The museum had not been shot in until the producers of the film approached them 21 I remember Hughes saying There are going to be more works of art in this movie than there have ever been before recalled Jennifer Grey 8 Among notable works featured in this scene include A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte Georges Seurat 1884 during which Cameron struggles to find his identity in the face of one of the children in the painting and America Windows Marc Chagall 1977 in front of which Ferris and Sloane have a romantic moment 35 According to editor Paul Hirsch in the original cut the museum scene fared poorly at test screenings until he switched sequences around and Hughes changed the soundtrack 36 The piece of music I originally chose was a classical guitar solo played on acoustic guitar It was nonmetrical with a lot of rubato I cut the sequence to that music and it also became nonmetrical and irregular I thought it was great and so did Hughes He loved it so much that he showed it to the studio but they just went Ehhh Then after many screenings where the audience said The museum scene is the scene we like least he decided to replace the music We had all loved it but the audience hated it I said I think I know why they hate the museum scene It s in the wrong place Originally the parade sequence came before the museum sequence but I realized that the parade was the highlight of the day there was no way we could top it so it had to be the last thing before the three kids go home So that was agreed upon we reshuffled the events of the day and moved the museum sequence before the parade Then we screened it and everybody loved the museum scene My feeling was that they loved it because it came in at the right point in the sequence of events John felt they loved it because of the music Basically the bottom line is it worked 36 The music used for the final version of the museum sequence is an instrumental cover version of The Smiths Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want performed by The Dream Academy A passionate Beatles fan Hughes makes multiple references to them and John Lennon in the script During filming Hughes listened to The White Album every single day for fifty six days 37 Hughes also pays tribute to his childhood hero Gordie Howe with Cameron s Detroit Red Wings jersey 38 I sent them the jersey said Howe It was nice seeing the No 9 on the big screen 39 Car Edit A 1961 Ferrari GT California In the film Ferris convinces Cameron to borrow his father s rare 1961 Ferrari 250 GT California Spyder The insert shots of the Ferrari were of the real 250 GT California Hughes explains in the DVD commentary The cars we used in the wide shots were obviously reproductions There were only 100 of these cars so it was way too expensive to destroy We had a number of replicas made They were pretty good but for the tight shots I needed a real one so we brought one in to the stage and shot the inserts with it 21 Prior to filming Hughes learned about Modena Design and Development that produced the Modena Spyder California a replica of the Ferrari 250 GT 40 Hughes saw a mention of the company in a car magazine and decided to research them Neil Glassmoyer recalls the day Hughes contacted him to ask about seeing the Modena Spyder The first time he called I hung up on him because I thought it was a friend of mine who was given to practical jokes Then he called back and convinced me it really was him so Mark and I took the car to his office While we were waiting outside to meet Hughes this scruffy looking fellow came out of the building and began looking the car over we thought from his appearance he must have been a janitor or something Then he looked up at a window and shouted This is it and several heads poked out to have a look That scruffy looking fellow was John Hughes and the people in the window were his staff Turned out it was between the Modena Spyder and a Porsche Turbo and Hughes chose the Modena 40 Automobile restorationist Mark Goyette designed the kits for three reproductions used in the film and chronicled the whereabouts of the cars today 41 Built by Goyette and leased to Paramount for the filming It s the one that jumps over the camera and is used in almost every shot At the end of filming Paramount returned it to Goyette with the exhaust crushed and cracks in the body There was quite a bit of superficial damage but it held up amazingly well he said He rebuilt it and sold it to a young couple in California The husband later ran it off the road and Goyette rebuilt the front end for him That owner sold it in the mid 90s and it turned up again around 2000 but hasn t emerged since 41 Sold to Paramount as a kit for them to assemble as their stunt car they did such a poor job that it was basically unusable aside from going backwards out the window of Cameron s house Rebuilt it ended up at Planet Hollywood in Minneapolis and was moved to Planet Hollywood in Cancun when this one was closed 41 Another kit supposed to be built as a shell for the out the window scene it was never completed at all and disappeared after the film was completed Goyette thinks he once heard it was eventually completed and sold off but it could also still be in a back lot at Paramount 41 One of the replicars was sold by Bonhams on April 19 2010 at the Royal Air Force Museum at Hendon United Kingdom for 79 600 equivalent to 108 578 in 2021 42 43 Another replicar used in the movie serial number 001 referenced as the hero car that Goyette stated hasn t emerged since was sold at the 2020 Scottsdale Barrett Jackson Collector Car Auction on January 18 2020 for US 396 000 equivalent to 414 636 in 2021 44 The replicar was universally hated by the crew said Ruck It didn t work right The scene in which Ferris turns off the car to leave it with the garage attendant had to be shot a dozen times because it would not start 8 The car was built with a real wheel base but used a Ford V8 engine instead of a V12 45 At the time of filming the original 250 GT California model was worth 350 000 8 Since the release of the film it has become one of the most expensive cars ever sold going at auction in 2008 for 10 976 000 equivalent to 13 814 153 in 2021 46 and more recently in 2015 for 16 830 000 equivalent to 19 240 024 in 2021 47 The vanity plate of Cameron s dad s Ferrari spells NRVOUS and the other plates seen in the film are homages to Hughes s earlier works VCTN National Lampoon s Vacation TBC The Breakfast Club MMOM Mr Mom as well as 4FBDO Ferris Bueller s Day Off Economics lecture Edit Ben Stein s famous monotonous lecture about the Smoot Hawley Tariff Act was not originally in Hughes s script Stein by happenstance was lecturing off camera to the amusement of the student cast I was just going to do it off camera but the student extras laughed so hard when they heard my voice that Hughes said do it on camera improvise something you know a lot about When I gave the lecture about supply side economics I thought they were applauding Everybody on the set applauded I thought they were applauding because they had learned something about supply side economics But they were applauding because they thought I was boring It was the best day of my life Stein said 25 Parade scene Edit The parade scene took multiple days of filming Broderick spent some time practicing the dance moves I was very scared Broderick said Fortunately the sequence was carefully choreographed beforehand We worked out all the moves by rehearsing in a little studio It was shot on two Saturdays in the heart of downtown Chicago The first day was during a real parade and John got some very long shots Then radio stations carried announcements inviting people to take part in a John Hughes movie The word got around fast and 10 000 people showed up For the final shot I turned around and saw a river of people I put my hands up at the end of the number and heard this huge roar I can understand how rock stars feel That kind of reaction feeds you 48 49 Broderick s moves were choreographed by Kenny Ortega who later choreographed Dirty Dancing Much of it had to be scrapped though as Broderick had injured his knee badly during the scenes of running through neighbors backyards I was pretty sore Broderick said I got well enough to do what you see in the parade there but I couldn t do most of Kenny Ortega s knee spins and things like that that we had worked on When we did shoot it we had all this choreography and I remember John would yell with a megaphone Okay do it again but don t do any of the choreography because he wanted it to be a total mess Danke Schoen was somewhat choreographed but for Twist and Shout Broderick said we were just making everything up 8 Hughes explained that much of the scene was spontaneously filmed It just happened that this was an actual parade which we put our float into unbeknownst to anybody all the people on the reviewing stand Nobody knew what it was including the governor 21 Wrigley Field Edit Ferris Bueller Night at Wrigley Field October 1 2011 Wrigley Field is featured in two interwoven and consecutive scenes In the first scene Rooney is looking for Ferris at a pizza joint while the voice of Harry Caray announces the action of a ballgame that is being shown on TV From the play by play descriptions the uniforms and the player numbers this game has been identified as the June 5 1985 game between the Atlanta Braves and the Chicago Cubs 26 50 In the next scene Sloane Cameron and Ferris are in the left field stands inside Wrigley Ferris flexes his hand in pain after supposedly catching the foul ball During this scene the characters enjoy the game and joke about what they would be doing if they had played by the rules All these in the park shots including the one from the previous scene where Ferris catches the foul ball on TV were filmed on September 24 1985 at a game between the Montreal Expos and the Cubs During the 1985 season the Braves and the Expos both wore powder blue uniforms during their road games so with seamless editing by Hirsch it is difficult to distinguish that the game being seen and described in the pizza joint is not only a different game but also a different Cubs opponent than the one filmed inside the stadium 51 On October 1 2011 Wrigley Field celebrated the 25th anniversary of the film by showing it on three giant screens on the infield 52 Deleted scenes Edit Several scenes were cut from the final film one lost scene titled The Isles of Langerhans has the three teenagers trying to order in the French restaurant shocked to discover pancreas on the menu although in the finished film Ferris still says We ate pancreas while recapping the day This is featured on the Bueller Bueller Edition DVD Other scenes were never made available on any DVD version 53 These scenes included additional screen time with Jeannie in a locker room Ferris s younger brother and sister both of whom were completely removed from the film and additional lines of dialogue throughout the film all of which can be seen in the original theatrical trailer Hughes had also wanted to film a scene where Ferris Sloane and Cameron go to a strip club Paramount executives told him there were only so many shooting days left so the scene was scrapped 8 According to former vice president of production for Paramount Pictures Lindsay Doran an earlier version of the film included a line by Sloane to Cameron during the parade scene when they re discussing their future that resulted in very low scores from young female viewers during test screenings In the scene Sloane said A girl can always bail out and have a baby and get some guy to support her Girls hated that line Doran recalls It was meant as an ironic criticism of gender politics explained producer Tom Jacobson But it went over the heads of the audience and they thought maybe she was espousing them After cutting the line Doran said young female test scores skyrocketed approximately 40 points which was the most dramatic test screening improvement through cutting a single line that she had ever seen 54 Music EditLimited edition fan club soundtrack Edit An official soundtrack was not originally released for the film since director John Hughes felt the songs would not work well together as a continuous album 55 However according to an interview with Lollipop Magazine Hughes noted that he had sent 100 000 7 vinyl singles containing two songs featured in the film to members of his fan mailing list 56 Hughes gave further details about his refusal to release a soundtrack in the Lollipop interview The only official soundtrack that Ferris Bueller s Day Off ever had was for the mailing list A amp M was very angry with me over that they begged me to put one out but I thought who d want all of these songs I mean would kids want Danke Schoen and Oh Yeah on the same record They probably already had Twist and Shout or their parents did and to put all of those together with the more contemporary stuff like the English Beat I just didn t think anybody would like it But I did put together a seven inch of the two songs I owned the rights to Beat City on one side and I forget one of the other English bands on the soundtrack and sent that to the mailing list By 86 87 it was costing us 30 a piece to mail out 100 000 packages But it was a labor of love 56 Songs in the film Edit Songs featured in the film include Love Missile F1 11 Extended Version by Sigue Sigue Sputnik Jeannie Theme from I Dream of Jeannie Beat City by The Flowerpot Men Main Title Rebel Blockade Runner by John Williams from Star Wars Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want instrumental by The Dream Academy a cover version of a song by The Smiths The Celebrated Minuet by Luigi Boccherini performed by the Zagreb Philharmonic Chamber Studio Danke Schoen by Wayne Newton Twist and Shout by The Beatles Radio People by Zapp I m Afraid by Blue Room Taking the Day Off by General Public The Edge of Forever by The Dream Academy March of the Swivelheads a remix of Rotating Heads by The English Beat Oh Yeah by Yello BAD by Big Audio Dynamite Danke Schoen is one of the recurring motifs in the film and is sung by Ferris Ed Rooney and Jeannie Hughes called it the most awful song of my youth Every time it came on I just wanted to scream claw my face I was taking German in high school which meant that we listened to it in school I couldn t get away from it 21 According to Broderick Ferris s singing Danke Schoen in the shower was his idea Although it s only because of the brilliance of John s deciding that I should sing Danke Schoen on the float in the parade I had never heard the song before I was learning it for the parade scene So we re doing the shower scene and I thought Well I can do a little rehearsal And I did something with my hair to make that Mohawk And you know what good directors do they say Stop Wait until we roll And John put that stuff in 57 Wayne Newton told the Chicago Sun Times he was thrilled to have his song featured in the film It was really cool because I thought okay Danke Schoen had run its gamut When I saw Broderick doing an impression lip syncing to my version of the song I thought that was the coolest thing I had ever seen 58 2016 soundtrack Edit Ferris Bueller s Day OffSoundtrack album by various artistsReleasedSeptember 13 2016GenreNew waveLength76 47LabelLa La Land RecordsThe soundtrack for the film limited to 5 000 copies was released on September 13 2016 by La La Land Records The album includes new wave and pop songs featured in the film as well as Ira Newborn s complete score including unused cues 59 Due to licensing restrictions Twist and Shout Taking The Day Off and March of the Swivelheads were not included but are available elsewhere The Flowerpot Men s Beat City makes its first official release on CD with a new mix done by The Flowerpot Men s Ben Watkins and Adam Peters that differs from the original 7 fan club release 59 60 Reception EditCritical response Edit The film largely received positive reviews from critics Roger Ebert gave it three out of four stars calling it one of the most innocent movies in a long time and a sweet warm hearted comedy 61 Richard Roeper called the film one of my favorite movies of all time It has one of the highest repeatability factors of any film I ve ever seen I can watch it again and again There s also this and I say it in all sincerity Ferris Bueller s Day Off is something of a suicide prevention film or at the very least a story about a young man trying to help his friend gain some measure of self worth Ferris has made it his mission to show Cameron that the whole world in front of him is passing him by and that life can be pretty sweet if you wake up and embrace it That s the lasting message of Ferris Bueller s Day Off 62 Roeper pays homage to the film with a license plate that reads SVFRRIS 63 Conservative columnist George Will hailed Ferris as the moviest movie a film most true to the general spirit of the movies the spirit of effortless escapism 64 Essayist Steve Almond called Ferris the most sophisticated teen movie he had ever seen adding that while Hughes had made a lot of good movies Ferris was the one film he would consider true art the only one that reaches toward the ecstatic power of teendom and at the same time exposes the true piercing woe of that age Almond also applauded Ruck s performance going so far as saying he deserved the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor of 1986 His performance is what elevates the film allows it to assume the power of a modern parable 65 The New York Times reviewer Nina Darnton criticized Mia Sara s portrayal of Sloane for lacking the specific detail that characterized the adolescent characters in Hughes s other films asserting she created a basically stable but forgettable character 66 67 Conversely Darnton praised Ruck and Grey s performances The two people who grow in the movie Cameron played with humor and sensitivity by Alan Ruck and Ferris s sister Jeannie played with appropriate self pity by Jennifer Grey are the most authentic Grey manages to play an insufferably sulky teen ager who is still attractive and likable 66 Co star Ben Stein was exceptionally moved by the film calling it the most life affirming movie possibly of the entire post war period 68 This is to comedies what Gone with the Wind is to epics Stein added It will never die because it responds to and calls forth such human emotions It isn t dirty There s nothing mean spirited about it There s nothing sneering or sniggering about it It s just wholesome We want to be free We want to have a good time We know we re not going to be able to all our lives We know we re going to have to buckle down and work We know we re going to have to eventually become family men and women and have responsibilities and pay our bills But just give us a couple of good days that we can look back on 69 National Review writer Mark Hemingway lauded the film s celebration of liberty If there s a better celluloid expression of ordinary American freedom than Ferris Bueller s Day Off I have yet to see it If you could take one day and do absolutely anything piling into a convertible with your best girl and your best friend and taking in a baseball game an art museum and a fine meal seems about as good as it gets wrote Hemingway 70 Others were less enamored with Ferris many taking issue with the film s rebel without a cause hedonism David Denby of New York Magazine called the film a nauseating distillation of the slack greedy side of Reaganism 71 Author Christina Lee agreed adding it was a splendidly ridiculous exercise in unadulterated indulgence and the film encapsulated the Reagan era s near solipsist worldview and insatiable appetite for immediate gratification of living in and for the moment 72 Gene Siskel panned the film from a Chicago centric perspective saying Ferris Bueller doesn t do anything much fun t hey don t even sit in the bleachers where all the kids like to sit when they go to Cubs games 73 Siskel did enjoy the chemistry between Jennifer Grey and Charlie Sheen Ebert thought Siskel was too eager to find flaws in the film s view of Chicago 73 On Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 81 based on 73 critics reviews with an average rating of 7 70 10 The website s critical consensus reads Matthew Broderick charms in Ferris Bueller s Day Off a light and irrepressibly fun movie about being young and having fun 74 Metacritic gave the film a score of 61 based on 13 reviews indicating generally favorable reviews 75 Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of A on an A to F scale 76 Accolades Edit Broderick was nominated for a Golden Globe Award in 1987 for Best Actor Motion Picture Musical or Comedy 77 Box office Edit The film opened in 1 330 theaters in the United States and had a total weekend gross of 6 275 647 Opening at No 2 Ferris Bueller s Day Off s total gross in the United States was approximately 70 136 369 making it a box office success 2 It subsequently became the 10th highest grossing film of 1986 78 Rankings Edit As an influential and popular film Ferris Bueller s Day Off has been included in many film rating lists The film is number 54 on Bravo s 100 Funniest Movies came 26th in the British 50 Greatest Comedy Films and ranked number 10 on Entertainment Weekly s list of the 50 Best High School Movies 79 Cultural impact Edit Barbara Bush used dialogue from the film at a commencement speech 80 U S President Ronald Reagan viewed the film at Camp David on June 21 1986 81 Hughes said of Bueller That kid will either become President of the United States or go to prison 82 First Lady Barbara Bush paraphrased the film in her 1990 commencement address at Wellesley College Find the joy in life because as Ferris Bueller said on his day off Life moves pretty fast if you don t stop and look around once in a while you could miss it Responding to the audience s enthusiastic applause she added I m not going to tell George you clapped more for Ferris than you clapped for George 80 83 Other phrases from Ferris Bueller s Day Off such as Stein s monotone voiced Bueller Bueller Bueller while taking roll call in class and Anyone Anyone trying to probe the students for answers as well as Kristy Swanson s cheerful No problem whatsoever also permeated popular culture 84 In fact Stein s monotone performance launched his acting career 85 In 2016 Stein reprised the attendance scene in a campaign ad 86 for Iowa Senator Charles Grassley Stein intoned the last name of Grassley s opponent Patty Judge to silence while facts about her missed votes and absences from state board meetings were listed Stein then calls out Grassley which gets a response Stein mutters He s always here 87 Broderick said of the Ferris Bueller role It eclipsed everything I should admit and to some degree it still does 8 Later at the 2010 Oscar tribute to Hughes he said For the past 25 years nearly every day someone comes up to me taps me on the shoulder and says Hey Ferris is this your day off 88 Ruck says that with Cameron Frye Hughes gave him the best part I ever had in a movie and any success that I ve had since 1985 is because he took a big chance on me I ll be forever grateful 89 While we were making the movie I just knew I had a really good part Ruck says My realization of John s impact on the teen comedy genre crept in sometime later Teen comedies tend to dwell on the ridiculous as a rule It s always the preoccupation with sex and the self involvement and we kind of hold the kids up for ridicule in a way Hughes added this element of dignity He was an advocate for teenagers as complete human beings and he honored their hopes and their dreams That s what you see in his movies 89 Matthew Broderick reprises his role of Ferris Bueller in the end credits for She s Having a Baby He is among the people that pitch the names of Jake and Kristy s baby son 90 Broderick starred in a television advertisement prepared by Honda promoting its CR V for the 2012 Super Bowl XLVI The ad pays homage to Ferris Bueller featuring Broderick as himself faking illness to skip out of work to enjoy sightseeing around Los Angeles Several elements such as the use of the song Oh Yeah and a valet monotonously calling for Broderick Broderick appear in the ad A teaser for the ad had appeared two weeks prior to the Super Bowl which had created rumors of a possible film sequel 91 It was produced by Santa Monica based RPA and directed by Todd Phillips 92 AdWeek s Tim Nudd called the ad a great homage to the original 1986 film with Broderick this time calling in sick to a film shoot and enjoying another day of slacking 92 On the other hand Jalopnik s Matt Hardigree called the spot sacrilegious 93 94 The film has been parodied in television series with characters taking a day off from their normal routine to have a day of adventure Examples include the episodes Barry s Day Off from The Goldbergs 95 Brian Finch s Black Op from Limitless 96 and Turner s and Brenda s Day Off from South Side 97 In March 2017 Domino s Pizza began an advertising campaign parodying the film featuring actor Joe Keery in the lead role 98 Early in 2020 internet personality Zach King released a short film parody on his YouTube channel 99 100 In September 2020 LiftMaster released a commercial where two young boys attempt to drive a 1966 Jaguar E Type owned by the father of one of the boys The commercial advertising the Liftmaster Secure View a security system built into the device features Alan Ruck as an older Cameron Frye who warns the boys after catching them on camera He then speaks to the audience Been there done that 101 102 Music Edit Yello Oh Yeah excerpt source source An excerpt from Oh Yeah Problems playing this file See media help The film s influence in popular culture extends beyond the film itself to how musical elements of the film have been received as well for example Yello s song Oh Yeah As Jonathan Bernstein explains Never a hit this slice of Swiss made tomfoolery with its varispeed vocal effects and driving percussion was first used by John Hughes to illustrate the mouthwatering must haveness of Cameron s dad s Ferrari Since then it has become synonymous with avarice Every time a movie TV show or commercial wants to underline the jaw dropping impact of a hot babe or sleek auto that synth drum starts popping and that deep voice rumbles Oh yeah 103 Yello was unheard of in the United States at the time but the inclusion of their song in Ferris Bueller and The Secret of My Success the following year sparked great interest in the song where it reached the Billboard Hot 100 and US Dance charts in 1987 104 105 It often became referred to as the Ferris Bueller song due to its attachment with the movie 106 Dieter Meier of Yello was able to use the licensing fees from Oh Yeah s appearance in Ferris Bueller and other films to start a series of investments and amassed a large fortune 107 While Paul McCartney admitted that he liked the movie he personally disliked the Twist and Shout sequence for its inclusion of brass instruments 108 Concerning the influence of another song used in the film Roz Kaveney writes that some of the finest moments in later teen film draw on Ferris s blithe Dionysian fervour the elaborate courtship by song in 10 Things I Hate About You 1999 draws usefully on the Twist and Shout sequence in Ferris Bueller s Day Off 109 Twist and Shout charted again 16 years after the Beatles broke up as a result of its prominent appearance in both this film and Back to School where Rodney Dangerfield performs a cover version which was released the same weekend as Ferris Bueller s Day Off The re released single reached No 23 in the U S a US only compilation album containing the track The Early Beatles re entered the album charts at No 197 The version heard in the film includes brass overdubbed onto the Beatles original recording which did not go down well with Paul McCartney I liked the film but they overdubbed some lousy brass on the stuff If it had needed brass we d had stuck it on ourselves 108 Upon hearing McCartney s reaction Hughes felt bad for offend ing a Beatle But it wasn t really part of the song We saw a band onscreen and we needed to hear the instruments 21 The bands Save Ferris and Rooney were named in allusion to Ferris Bueller s Day Off 110 Academic analysis EditMany scholars have discussed at length the film s depiction of academia and youth culture For Martin Morse Wooster the film portrayed teachers as humorless buffoons whose only function was to prevent teenagers from having a good time 111 Regarding not specifically teachers but rather a type of adult characterization in general Art Silverblatt asserts that the adults in Ferris Bueller s Day Off are irrelevant and impotent Ferris s nemesis the school disciplinarian Mr Rooney is obsessed with getting Bueller His obsession emerges from envy Strangely Ferris serves as Rooney s role model as he clearly possesses the imagination and power that Rooney lacks By capturing and disempowering Ferris Rooney hopes to reduce Ferris s influence over other students which would reestablish adults that is Rooney as traditional authority figures 112 Nevertheless Silverblatt concludes that Rooney is essentially a comedic figure whose bumbling attempts to discipline Ferris are a primary source of humor in the film 112 Thomas Patrick Doherty writes that the adult villains in teenpics such as Ferris Bueller s Day Off 1986 are overdrawn caricatures no real threat they re played for laughs 113 Yet Silverblatt also remarks that casting the principal as a comic figure questions the competence of adults to provide young people with effective direction indeed the value of adulthood itself 112 Adults are not the stars or main characters of the film and Roz Kaveney notes that what Ferris Bueller brings to the teen genre ultimately is a sense of how it is possible to be cool and popular without being rich or a sports hero Unlike the heroes of Weird Science Ferris is computer savvy without being a nerd or a geek it is a skill he has taken the trouble to learn 114 In 2010 English comedian Dan Willis performed his show Ferris Bueller s Way Of at the Edinburgh Festival delving into the philosophy of the movie and looking for life answers within 115 Home media and other releases EditThis section needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed Find sources Ferris Bueller s Day Off news newspapers books scholar JSTOR April 2021 Learn how and when to remove this template message The film has been released on DVD three times including on October 19 1999 on January 10 2006 as the Bueller Bueller edition and the I Love the 80s edition August 19 2008 116 The original DVD like most Paramount Pictures films released on DVD for the first time has very few bonus features but it does feature a commentary by Hughes Though this is no longer available for sale the director s commentary is available 117 The DVD was issued in the United States on October 19 1999 the United Kingdom on July 31 2000 Germany on August 3 2000 Denmark on August 9 2000 Brazil on June 25 2001 and Canada on March 9 2004 The North American DVDs include a Dolby Digital 5 1 Surround Sound English audio track a mono version of the French dub and English subtitles The German Danish and UK DVD includes the English and French audio as well as mono dubs in German Italian and Spanish The German and Danish release features English French German Portuguese Bulgarian Croatian Danish Dutch Finnish Icelandic Norwegian Swedish and Turkish subtitles the UK including those minus the Finnish subtitles and plus the Romanian subs The Brazilian DVD only has the English audio and English Portuguese and Spanish subtitles The Bueller Bueller DVD re release has several more bonus features but does not contain the commentary track of the original DVD release The edition was released in the United States on January 10 2006 Sweden on April 12 2006 Spain on April 18 2006 and the United Kingdom on May 29 2006 The I Love the 80s edition is identical to the first DVD release no features aside from commentary but includes a bonus CD with songs from the 1980s The songs are not featured in the film The Bueller Bueller edition has multiple bonus features such as interviews with the cast and crew along with a clip of Stein s commentaries on the film s philosophy and impact 116 Bueller Bueller editions were also the first Blu ray releases of Ferris Bueller s Day Off Blu rays of the edition were released in the United States and Canada on May 5 2009 Australia on June 16 2009 Brazil on July 20 2009 and United Kingdom on February 1 2010 All of these Blu rays feature a Dolby TrueHD audio track of the English version with mono versions of the French and Spanish dubs they also include English French Spanish and Portuguese subtitles A 25th anniversary edition for DVD and Blu ray were both released on August 2 2011 in North America On October 18 2004 Ferris Bueller s Day Off was issued as part of a UK Digipack DVD collection by Paramount Pictures named I Love 80s Movies John Hughes Classic 80s which also included Pretty in Pink 1986 Planes Trains and Automobiles 1987 and Some Kind of Wonderful 1987 It was later part of the United States Warner Bros DVD set 5 Film Collection 80 s Comedy issued on September 30 2014 and also including Planes Trains and Automobiles The Naked Gun From the Files of Police Squad 1988 Airplane 1980 and Police Academy 1984 the collection also included digital files of the films On October 3 2017 it was released in the United States as part of the DVD collection 5 Iconic Films of the 80s that also included The Naked Gun Some Kind of Wonderful Crocodile Dundee 1986 and Harlem Nights 1989 The film also appeared on two Blu ray collections Australia s Films That Define A Decade 80s Collection released on April 12 2017 and France s Pop Culture Anthology 20 Films Cultes Blu ray issued on October 17 2018 In the United Kingdom an 80s Collection edition with new artwork was released on DVD in 2018 with the same six bonus features as the 2006 issue 118 In 2016 Paramount Turner Classic Movies and Fathom Events re released the film and Pretty in Pink to celebrate their 30th anniversary 119 Most Blu ray debuts of Ferris Bueller s Day Off in most foreign language countries took place in 2019 the film was released to the format in France on January 9 2019 Germany on February 7 2019 Italy on March 13 2019 Japan on April 24 2019 and Spain on May 3 2019 The Italy Germany and Spain Blu rays includes French German Italian and Spanish dubs and Italian English French German Japanese Spanish Danish Dutch Finnish Norwegian and Swedish subtitles The French and Japanese Blu rays however are limited to subtitle and audio options of their respective languages VHS retro packing Blu ray editions of the film have only been issued as retailer exclusives In Australia on December 6 2017 JB Hi Fi issued a 1000 copies only Rewind Collection edition of the VHS retro packaged Blu ray that also includes a DVD disc a toy figure props from the film and other memorabilia On July 30 2018 HMV exclusively released the same limited edition in the United Kingdom Follow ups EditInterquel Edit Broderick and Hughes stayed in touch for a while after production We thought about a sequel to Ferris Bueller where he d be in college or at his first job and the same kind of things would happen again But neither of us found a very exciting hook to that The movie is about a singular time in your life 57 Ferris Bueller is about the week before you leave school it s about the end of school in some way it doesn t have a sequel It s a little moment and it s a lightning flash in your life I mean you could try to repeat it in college or something but it s a time that you don t keep So that s partly why I think we couldn t think of another Broderick added But just for fun said Ruck I used to think why don t they wait until Matthew and I are in our seventies and do Ferris Bueller Returns and have Cameron be in a nursing home He doesn t really need to be there but he just decided his life is over so he committed himself to a nursing home And Ferris comes and breaks him out And they go to like a titty bar and all this ridiculous stuff happens And then at the end of the movie Cameron dies 8 In August 2022 a spin off interquel film entitled Sam amp Victor s Day Off was announced to be in development for the streaming service Paramount Taking place during the events of Ferris Bueller s Day Off and focusing on the two titular valets who took Cameron s father s 1961 Ferrari 250 GT California Spyder on a joy ride originally portrayed in the film by Richard Edson and Larry Flash Jenkins the film would be produced by Jon Hurwitz Hayden Schlossberg 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