Amazon.com: Like a soda pop left open all night, Bueller seems to have lost its effervescence over time. Sure, Matthew Broderick is still appealing as the perennial truant, Ferris, who fakes his parents out and takes one memorable day off from school. Jeffrey Jones is nasty and scheming as the principal who's out to catch him. Jennifer Grey is winning as Ferris's sister (who ends up making out in the police station with a prophetic vision of Charlie Sheen). But there's a definite sense that this film was of a particular time frame: the '80s. It's still fun, though. There's Ferris singing "Twist and Shout" during a Chicago parade, and a lovely sequence in the Art Institute. But don't get it and expect your kids to love it the way you did. Like it or not, it's yours alone. --Keith Simanton
Bueller....Bueller....Bueller Special Collection's Edition 1 Disc Widescreen (1986)
"Ferris Bueller's Day Off" was written by John Hughes in a WEEK because he had an idea and knew he had to make it happen quickly before an oncoming writers' strike. Hughes' directing is always memorable, he knows just how to edit a funny scene to get the most out of it with different perspective shots thrown together. In this story, Ferris Bueller (Matthew Broderick) along with his best friend, Cameron Frye (Alan Ruck) and girlfriend, Sloan (Mia Sara) skip a day of school to enjoy a day in downtown ... Read More