Ferris Bueller's Day Off (Bueller...Bueller... Edition)
by John Hughes
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Actor: Alan Ruck, Jeffrey Jones, Jennifer Grey, Matthew Broderick, Mia SaraDirector: John Hughes
Brand: PARAMOUNT HOME VIDEO
Cinematographer: Tak Fujimoto
Producer: John Hughes
Writer: John Hughes
Editor: Paul Hirsch
Producer: Jane Vickerilla
Producer: Michael Chinich
Producer: Tom Jacobson
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language); French (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 103 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-01-10
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Paramount
Product features:
- Bueller...Bueller...Edition
DVD Reviews of Ferris Bueller's Day Off (Bueller...Bueller... Edition)
DVD Review: Playing Hooky in Plain Sight---And With Style!
Summary: 4 Stars
This lively John Hughes offering from the summer of 1986 depicts a certain joyousness in watching a charmingly irritating Teflon truant from a well-to-do Chicago family play hooky from school in an incident that marks his ninth absence of the semester.
A boyish looking Matthew Broderick, then in his twenties,pulls off the title character's part so skillfully that he makes detestable behavior amusing.
We find this "righteous dude"(school secretary Edie McClurg's Grace's notation of how Ferris is viewed by students) lying in bed one fine spring morning, deciding that he "couldn't possibly handle school" on such a day in one of many asides to an invisible audience, and tell his parents(Lyman Ward and Cindy Pickett)that he is ill in a dramatic performance that earns the ire of his sister, Jeanie(Jennifer Grey)who isn't buying it for a minute. His parents, unfortunately, can be conned so easily, it's pathetic!
Once his family have left, Ferris steps up his plan to enjoy a day on the town with his frequently ill, insecure and hypochondriac friend, Cameron(Alan Ruck), the product of of a repressive and dysfunctional household whose materialistic off-screen father has incredibly skewered values, and his girlfriend, Sloane Peterson(Mia Sara). He calls Cameron, goes to his house and finnagles him into getting his father's classic red Ferrari out of the garage. Having made a few calls to Principal Rooney's (Jeffrey Jones) office, pretending to be her father and claiming that there has been a death in her family, he gets Sloane out of school,letting the Principal see him incognito and in stylish-looking car, and their illicit day of fun begins.
They park the car in a city garage, leaving it in the hands of two attendants(Richard Edson and Larry Flash Jenkins) whose recklessly cavalier behavior could easily match Ferris' own.
The school day finds an aggravated Jeanie being given condolences from schoolmates concerned about her brother's health(Ferris having spread the word among the underclass students who look up to him). Ferris has fiddled with the school computer to mark down his true number of absences, so Principal Rooney has to withdraw his complaint about his many absences to his mother during a phone call--one of many instances in which his authority will be undermined during the day.
We see the classes Ferris is missing throughout the day, most notably the one taught by Ben Stein's deadpan Economics teacher.
Among the places they visit is a swank restaurant, where the casually dressed trio are challenged by a stuffy Maitre D'(Jonathan Schmock), but are once again able to make an adult look like an idiot and get in. They are nearly spotted by Mr. Bueller,attending lunch there with his business partners, but somehow manage to avoid his detection even then.
They travel to the top of the Sears Tower, attend a ball game, and spend time at the Art Institute of Chicago,where they link up with a class of Elementary School children on a field trip, all without anyone asking them why they aren't in school.
--Perhaps it is presumed they too, are on a field trip, although there's less credibility there without a larger class of students and a supervising teacher.
A water tank reading "Save Ferris" further reveals how well the High-Schooler's ruse is succeeding.
The two people who most want to see Ferris grilled for his offenses, Jeanie and Mr. Rooney gradually and unexpectedly gravitate toward each other at the Bueller home. The results will be that one will end up in trouble and one will ultimately have to concede defeat.
Ferris' ruse reaches its climax when he slips on to a float at a downtown parade celebrating German heritage(Noticeably, he has an appropriate last name),pantomimes to Wayne Newton's "Danke Schoen", and leads everyone in rocking to the Beatles' rendition of "Twist and Shout". Even his father, back at work in a nearby office building is stirred by the sound.But if only he had gone to his window and looked down below...
The film loses its verve after this point. But the afternoon finds the teenagers sneaking a romp in a neighbor's pool and jacuzzi, and finally back at Cameron's house to return the Ferrari to the garage in a scene where Cameron finally confronts his anger issues in an intense scene in which property is damaged.That, too, is the influence of Ferris Bueller.
Distracted from work by a situation with Jeanie(during which the latter breifly encounters a young Charlie Sheen), Mrs. Bueller angrily drives home with the daughter that she and her husband believe to be the bad seed, and Mrs.Bueller narrowly misses seeing her purportedly ailing son land against her car just right in front of her as she is at a stop sign, as he rushes home from his day of illicit adventures.
Mr. Rooney makes one final attempt to confront the Buellers at their home as all the main parties converge there, but an ironic twist that has always made me cringe when watching it results in his being repelled for the final time.
Certain details, such as Rooney's wallet being left on the Bueller's kitchen floor, and their dog, who attacked Mr. Rooney, lying unconscious after having a "Get Well Soon" flower pot arrangement for Ferris dropped on him may later bring pause to Ferris' parents.But we don't see how Ferris may eventually pay for the trouble he causes. For him, the story ends on a note of impish triumph.
Description of Ferris Bueller's Day Off (Bueller...Bueller... Edition)
"Bueller?Bueller??" Sorry, not here! Instead, high-schooler Ferris Bueller (Mathew Broderick), his girlfriend Sloane (Mia Sara), and his best bud Cameron (Alan Ruck) are off on the spontaneous romp through Chicago known as Ferris Bueller?s Day Off. You?ll also enjoy righteous bonus materials that give you an insider?s peek at this hilarious comedy hit from John Hughes (Planes, Trains & Automobiles, Sixteen Candles). So, barf up a lung, forge a "sick note" from the parents, and tag along on the funniest adventure to ever sweep through the Windy City. What are you still doing here? Save Ferris!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
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