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{{short description|1986 teen comedy film by John Hughes}} {{redirect|Ferris Bueller|the television series|Ferris Bueller (TV series){{!}}Ferris Bueller (TV series)}} {{Use American English|date=January 2025}} {{good article}} {{Use mdy dates|date=August 2015}} {{Infobox film | name = Ferris Bueller's Day Off | image = Ferris Bueller's Day Off.jpg | alt = The poster shows a young man smiling with his hands behind his head with the tagline "Leisure Rules" being on the top of the poster. The film's title, the rating and production credits appear at the bottom of the poster. | caption = Theatrical release poster | director = [[John Hughes (filmmaker)|John Hughes]] | producer = {{plainlist| * John Hughes * Tom Jacobson }} | writer = John Hughes | starring = {{plainlist|<!--Per poster billing--> * [[Matthew Broderick]] * [[Mia Sara]] * [[Alan Ruck]] }} | music = [[Ira Newborn]] | cinematography = [[Tak Fujimoto]] | editing = [[Paul Hirsch (film editor)|Paul Hirsch]] | distributor = [[Paramount Pictures]] | released = {{film date|1986|06|11|United States}} | runtime = 103 minutes | country = United States | language = English | budget = $5 million<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.sonomanews.com/article/entertainment/ferris-bueller-celebrates-middle-age-at-gun-bun/ |title='Ferris Bueller' celebrates middle age at Gun Bun |date=August 12, 2016 |access-date=March 30, 2021 |archive-date=May 4, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210504022344/https://www.sonomanews.com/article/entertainment/ferris-bueller-celebrates-middle-age-at-gun-bun/amp/ |url-status=live}}</ref> | gross = $70.7 million<ref name="mojo" /> }} '''''Ferris Bueller's Day Off''''' is a 1986 American [[Teen film|teen]] [[comedy film]] written, co-produced, and directed by [[John Hughes (filmmaker)|John Hughes]]. The film stars [[Matthew Broderick]], [[Mia Sara]], and [[Alan Ruck]], with supporting roles from [[Jennifer Grey]], [[Jeffrey Jones]], [[Cindy Pickett]], [[Edie McClurg]], [[Lyman Ward (actor)|Lyman Ward]], and [[Charlie Sheen]]. It tells the story of a charismatic high school [[slacker]], Ferris, who skips school with his best friend Cameron and his girlfriend Sloane for a day in [[Chicago]], regularly [[Fourth wall|breaking the fourth wall]] to explain his techniques and inner thoughts. Hughes wrote the screenplay in less than a week. Filming began in September 1985 and finished in November, featuring [[List of Chicago Landmarks|many Chicago landmarks]] including the [[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."<ref name=hugheschicago /> Released by [[Paramount Pictures]] on June 11, 1986, the film became the [[1986 in film#Top grossing films (U.S.)|tenth-highest-grossing film of 1986]] in the United States, grossing $70 million over a $5 million budget. The film received generally positive reviews from critics and audiences alike, who praised Broderick's performance, and the film's humor and 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".<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Grow |first=Kory |title='Big Lebowski,' 'Ferris Bueller' Added to National Film Registry |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/news/big-lebowski-ferris-buellers-day-off-added-to-national-film-registry-20141217 |url-status=live |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |date=December 17, 2014 |access-date=August 27, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180629122316/https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/news/big-lebowski-ferris-buellers-day-off-added-to-national-film-registry-20141217 |archive-date=June 29, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Cinematic Treasures Named to National Film Registry|url=https://www.loc.gov/item/prn-14-210/new-films-added-to-national-registry/2014-12-17/|access-date=October 2, 2020|website=Library of Congress|archive-date=November 26, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201126213653/https://www.loc.gov/item/prn-14-210/new-films-added-to-national-registry/2014-12-17/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Complete National Film Registry Listing |url=https://www.loc.gov/programs/national-film-preservation-board/film-registry/complete-national-film-registry-listing/|access-date=2020-10-02|website=Library of Congress|archive-date=October 31, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161031213743/https://www.loc.gov/programs/national-film-preservation-board/film-registry/complete-national-film-registry-listing/|url-status=live}}</ref> The film was followed by a [[Ferris Bueller (TV series)|television series]], starring [[Charlie Schlatter]] as the title character. A [[Spinoff (media)|spin-off]] film titled ''Sam & Victor's Day Off'', focusing on the two [[valet]]s who took Cameron's father's Ferrari on a joy ride, is in development for [[Paramount+]].<ref name="Cordero">{{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2022/08/ferris-buellers-day-off-spinoff-cobra-kai-creators-bill-posley-paramount-pictures-1235088658/|title='Ferris Bueller's Day Off' Spinoff From 'Cobra Kai' Creators & Bill Posley In Works At Paramount Pictures|last=Cordero|first=Rosy|date=August 19, 2022|access-date=August 20, 2022|archive-date=August 19, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220819221822/https://deadline.com/2022/08/ferris-buellers-day-off-spinoff-cobra-kai-creators-bill-posley-paramount-pictures-1235088658/|url-status=live}}</ref> ==Plot== <!-- Per WP:FILMPLOT, plot summaries for feature films should be between 400 and 700 words. Please check the word count before making any additions. --> One spring day in a [[Chicago]] suburb, high school senior Ferris Bueller [[Malingering|fakes illness]] to stay home from school, two months before his graduation, regularly [[Fourth wall|breaking the fourth wall]]. His parents, Katie and Tom, believe he is ill, though his sister, Jeanie, does not. After learning Ferris is absent from school for the ninth time that semester, the school's [[Dean (education)|dean]], Edward Rooney and his secretary, Grace become determined to expose Ferris's chronic [[truancy]]; Ferris changes his attendance records by [[Hacker|hacking]] into the school's computer system, making it appear as if he attends school regularly. Ferris persuades his [[hypochondriac]] best friend Cameron Frye to help excuse Ferris's girlfriend Sloane Peterson from school by claiming that her grandmother has died. Cameron calls the school, pretending to be Sloane's father. Knowing Sloane is dating Ferris, Rooney and Grace are suspicious. Ferris also calls the school during Cameron's phone call to confirm his absence, thereby fooling Rooney. To complete the ruse that Sloane's father is picking her up from school, Ferris borrows the prized possession of Cameron's father, a 1961 [[Ferrari 250 GT California Spyder]]. Fearing his father's wrath, Cameron is dismayed when Ferris takes the car on a day trip into Chicago. Ferris promises they will return the car as it was, including preserving the original [[odometer]] mileage. Ferris, Cameron, and Sloane leave the car with two parking attendants, who promptly take it on a long joyride. The trio eat lunch at an upscale restaurant, visit the [[Art Institute of Chicago]], go to a [[Chicago Cubs]] baseball game, and attend the [[Von Steuben Day]] Parade, where Ferris jumps on a [[Float (parade)|float]] and [[lip sync]]s to "[[Danke Schoen]]" by [[Wayne Newton]] and "[[Twist and Shout]]" by [[The Beatles]]. Rooney prowls the Bueller home for Ferris, becoming victim to several [[pratfall]]s. Jeanie skips class and returns home to confront Ferris, but finds Rooney instead. Shocked by his appearance, she knocks him unconscious and calls the police, mistaking him for a burglar. Rooney regains consciousness and leaves. The police arrest Jeanie, believing she [[prank call]]ed the police station. While detained, she meets and befriends another delinquent who advises her to worry less about Ferris's exploits and more about her own life. Upon collecting the Ferrari and heading home, Ferris and Cameron discover that the car's mileage has significantly increased. Cameron becomes semi-catatonic from shock, later almost drowning in a pool before a worried Ferris helps him. At Cameron's house, Ferris jacks up the car and reverses it to [[Odometer fraud|rewind the odometer]]. However, this attempt fails and Cameron destroys the car out of anger toward his domineering father. Ferris offers to take the blame, but Cameron decides to tell the truth and stand up to his father. After walking Sloane home, Ferris remembers his parents will be returning soon. He runs through the neighborhood, but is nearly hit by Jeanie's car as Jeanie and Katie drive home. Katie fails to notice Ferris, though Jeanie does. Ferris makes it home first, but Rooney confronts him before he can get back inside. Seeing the two through the window, Jeanie has a change of heart and allows Ferris to come inside, claiming that Ferris was at the hospital for his illness. She also shows Rooney his wallet that had fallen from his pocket in the kitchen earlier, tosses it into a nearby puddle, and shuts the back door loud enough to wake up the family's pet [[Rottweiler]], who attacks Rooney. Rooney then flees the house while Ferris rushes back to his bedroom to await his parents, who find him in bed and believe he has been home all day. Meanwhile, in a scene that plays during the end credits, a humiliated, disheveled, and injured Rooney reluctantly accepts a ride on a school bus filled with students who act derisively toward him. In a [[post-credit scene]], Ferris tells the audience that the movie is over and to go home. ==Cast== [[File:Matthew Broderick.jpg|thumb|175px|alt=A black and white photo of young man with dark hair and a moustache|right|Broderick in Sweden during his promotion of ''Ferris Bueller's Day Off'', June 1986]] {{Cast listing| * [[Matthew Broderick]] as Ferris Bueller, a popular high school senior * [[Alan Ruck]] as Cameron Frye, Ferris' best friend * [[Mia Sara]] as Sloane Peterson, Ferris' girlfriend * [[Jeffrey Jones]] as Edward "Ed" R. Rooney, the Dean of Students * [[Jennifer Grey]] as Jeanie Bueller, Ferris' sister * [[Cindy Pickett]] as Katie Bueller, Ferris' mother * [[Lyman Ward (actor)|Lyman Ward]] as Tom Bueller, Ferris' father * [[Edie McClurg]] as Grace, Rooney's secretary * [[Charlie Sheen]] as Garth Volbeck, the juvenile delinquent who flirts with Jeanie in the police station * [[Ben Stein]] as Ferris' sardonic 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 * [[Scott Coffey]] as an economics student * [[Anne Ryan (actress)|Anne Ryan]] as Shermerite * [[Jonathan Schmock]] as Chez Quis Maitre D' * [[Louie Anderson]] as a flower delivery person * [[Stephanie Blake]] as a singing telegram "nurse" * [[Dee Dee Rescher]] as a bus driver who picks up Rooney during the end credits * [[Joey D. Vieira]] as a pizza man }} [[John Hughes (filmmaker)|John Hughes]] made his final on-screen appearance in a cameo role as a man running between the cabs, but was uncredited. ==Production== [[File:Ferris Bueller Room Replica.jpg|thumb|alt=A replica of Ferris Bueller's bedroom, with band posters on the wall|right|A replica of Ferris Bueller's bedroom recreated by Sarah Keenlyside at the [[Gladstone Hotel (Toronto)|Gladstone Hotel]] in 2016.]] ===Writing=== As he was writing the film in 1985, [[John Hughes (filmmaker)|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.<ref name="bratpackbook" /> Hughes wrote the screenplay in less than a week.<ref>{{cite news |last=Kamp |first=David |title=Sweet Bard of Youth |url=http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/features/2010/03/john-hughes-201003?printable=true¤tPage=5 |url-status=live |work=[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]] |date=March 2010 |page=5 |access-date=February 20, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100221025524/http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/features/2010/03/john-hughes-201003?printable=true¤tPage=5 |archive-date=February 21, 2010}}</ref> 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.<ref name="editing">{{cite book |last=McGrath |first=Declan |title=Editing & post-production |year=2001 |page=79 |publisher=Focal Press |isbn=0-240-80468-6}}</ref> "Having the story episodic and taking place in one day<small>...</small>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."<ref name="editing" /> 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."<ref>{{cite news |title=Ferris Bueller: John Hughes and Speedwriting |url=http://blogs.amctv.com/movie-blog/2007/04/10/ |work=AMC Movie Blog |date=April 10, 2007 |access-date=February 24, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120406094443/http://blogs.amctv.com/movie-blog/2007/04/10/ |archive-date=April 6, 2012}}</ref> 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' absence, compared to Bueller's nine in the film.<ref>{{cite news |last=McNally |first=Edward |title=A Mirror Up To the Original Ferris Bueller |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/11/AR2009081103453.html |url-status=live |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |date=August 12, 2009 |access-date=August 27, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170818161414/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/11/AR2009081103453.html |archive-date=August 18, 2017}}</ref> ===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.<ref name="broderick-charm">{{cite news| first=Sharon| last=Barrett| title=Broderick taps charm in 'Day Off'| date=1986-06-13 |url=https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-3770685.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180422062357/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-3770685.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2018-04-22| work=[[Chicago Sun-Times]]|url-access=subscription | access-date=July 21, 2017}}</ref> "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."<ref name="broderick-charm" /> [[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.<ref name="ruckavclub">{{cite web |last=Harris |first=Will |title=Alan Ruck's journey from Ferris Bueller to Sears to the bridge of the Enterprise and beyond |url=https://www.avclub.com/alan-ruck-s-journey-from-ferris-bueller-to-sears-to-the-1827063548 |website=[[The A.V. Club]] |publisher=Onion, Inc. |access-date=July 9, 2018 |date=July 8, 2018 |archive-date=February 26, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200226002743/https://www.avclub.com/alan-ruck-s-journey-from-ferris-bueller-to-sears-to-the-1827063548 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Guerrasio">{{cite web |date=2021 |last1=Guerrasio |first1=Jason |title=Anthony Michael Hall says he regrets turning down the lead role in 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' |url=https://www.insider.com/anthony-michael-hall-regrets-passing-on-ferris-buellers-day-off-2021-10 |website=Insider |access-date=October 16, 2021 |archive-date=January 21, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230121054459/https://www.insider.com/anthony-michael-hall-regrets-passing-on-ferris-buellers-day-off-2021-10 |url-status=live }}</ref> Other actors who were considered for the role included [[Jim Carrey]],<ref name="carcus">{{cite web | url=https://screenrant.com/ferris-buellers-day-off-movie-actors-almost-cast/ | title=Ferris Bueller's Day Off: The Actors Who Almost Played Ferris | work=Screenrant | date=14 March 2020 | accessdate=20 November 2021 | author=Kandell, Zachary | archive-date=November 20, 2021 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211120133711/https://screenrant.com/ferris-buellers-day-off-movie-actors-almost-cast/ | url-status=live }}</ref> [[John Cusack]],<ref name="carcus"/> [[Johnny Depp]],<ref>{{cite web |date=September 2, 2021 |first1=Diana |last1=Pearl |first2=Maria |last2=Yagoda |title=Iconic Roles That Were Almost Played by Another Actor |url=https://people.com/movies/iconic-roles-that-were-almost-played-by-another-actors/ |website=People |quote=it could have been Depp twisting-and-shouting through the streets of Chicago. The future ''21 Jump Street'' star was John Hughes's first choice for the title role, but he had to turn it down due to scheduling conflicts. |access-date=July 1, 2021 |archive-date=June 28, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210628210914/https://people.com/movies/iconic-roles-that-were-almost-played-by-another-actors/ |url-status=live }}</ref> [[George Clooney]],<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.cinemablend.com/movies/actors-who-almost-starred-in-classic-80s-movies | title=19 Actors Who Almost Starred in Classic '80s Movies | date=July 2, 2023 }}</ref> [[Tom Cruise]], and [[Michael J. Fox]].<ref>{{cite web| last=Evans| first=Bradford| title=The Lost Roles of Jim Carrey| date=17 March 2011| publisher=[[Splitsider]]| url=http://splitsider.com/2011/03/the-lost-roles-of-jim-carrey/| access-date=10 August 2015| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150808040454/http://splitsider.com/2011/03/the-lost-roles-of-jim-carrey/| archive-date=August 8, 2015| url-status=dead}}</ref> 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."<ref>{{cite news| first=Vernon | last=Scott| title=Mia Sara Lands Plum Roles Despite Lack of Training| date=1986-07-16| work=[[The Hollywood Reporter]]}}</ref> [[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."<ref name="bratpackbook" /> 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.<ref name='Ruck-Casting' /> 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."<ref name="DVDCommShoot">{{cite video| title=Ferris Bueller's Day Off-(Commentary by John Hughes)| medium=DVD| publisher=[[Paramount Pictures]]| date=1999-10-19}}</ref> 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!"<ref name="bratpackbook" /> Ruck, then 29, worried about the age difference (he was only 6 years younger than 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."<ref name='Ruck-Casting'>{{cite news | date=1986-07-03 | first=Diane | last=Haithman | title=Ruck Just Put Himself Into His 'Day Off' Role | newspaper=[[Chicago Tribune]] | url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1986-07-03-8602170641-story.html | access-date=October 18, 2021 | archive-date=April 7, 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220407105557/https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1986-07-03-8602170641-story.html | url-status=live }}</ref> 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."<ref name="Ruck-Casting" /> Ruck and Broderick had previously acted together in the [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] production of ''[[Biloxi Blues]]''. Cameron's "Mr. Peterson" voice was an [[in-joke]] imitation of their former director [[Gene Saks]].<ref name="bratpackbook" /> 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."<ref name="bratpackbook" /> Jones was cast as Rooney based on his role in ''[[Amadeus (film)|Amadeus]]'', where he played the emperor; Hughes thought that character's modern equivalent was Rooney.<ref name="DVDCommShoot" /> "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.<ref name=Jones>{{cite web |title=Q and A with Jeffrey Jones |date=July 2000 |url=http://www.popculturecorn.com/movies/issues/jun00/interview-jeffreyjones.html |work=Pop Culture Corn |access-date=2010-03-02 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100924205642/http://www.popculturecorn.com/movies/issues/jun00/interview-jeffreyjones.html |archive-date=September 24, 2010 |df=mdy-all}}</ref> "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."<ref name=Jones /> "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."<ref>{{cite news |first=Adam |last=Coozer |title=Jeffrey Jones |date=1997-10-30 |url=http://www.readjunk.com/interviews/jeffrey-jones/ |publisher=ReadJunk |access-date=2010-03-02 |archive-date=September 1, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100901124550/http://www.readjunk.com/interviews/jeffrey-jones/ |url-status=live }}</ref> 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's 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.<ref>{{cite book |last=Honeycutt |first=Kirk |title=John Hughes: A Life in Film: The Genius Behind Ferris Bueller, The Breakfast Club, Home Alone, and more |publisher=Race Point Publishing |date=25 March 2015 |isbn=978-1631060229}}</ref> Stein says he got the role of Bueller's Economics teacher through [[six degrees of separation]].<ref name='stein-role'>{{cite episode |title=Ben Stein Talks about Famous "Ferris Bueller" Role |airdate=January 10, 2006 |network=[[CNN]] |url=http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0601/10/sbt.01.html |series=[[Showbiz Tonight]] |credits=Presenters: A.J. Hammer and Brooke Anderson |access-date=2017-07-21 |archive-date=April 15, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110415090017/http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0601/10/sbt.01.html |url-status=live }}</ref> "[[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.<ref name='stein-role' /> 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."<ref name="DVDCommShoot" /> ===Filming=== [[File:Ferris Bueller house northeast view.JPG|thumb|alt=A white house with blue shutters is pictured|Northeast view of the house in [[Long Beach, California|Los Cerritos]] in [[Long Beach, California]], used in the film]] "Chicago is what I am," said Hughes.<ref name=hugheschicago>{{cite news |title=Ferris Bueller: John Hughes and Chicago |url=http://www.amc.com/talk/2007/04/ferris-bueller |publisher=AMC Movie Blog |access-date=2010-01-15 |archive-date=May 7, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160507210615/http://www.amc.com/talk/2007/04/ferris-bueller |url-status=dead }}</ref> "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 City|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''."<ref name=hugheschicago /> [[File:Cameron's House.jpg|thumb|alt=A brown modernist squarish house and garage is pictured|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."<ref name="hugheschicago" /> [[Principal photography|Shooting]] began in Chicago on September 9, 1985.<ref name="Larry Granillo">{{cite web |first=Larry |last=Granillo |title=Ferris Bueller's Day Off at Wrigley Field |url=http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=12877 |publisher=Baseball Prospectus |date=2011-02-06 |access-date=2011-02-10 |archive-date=February 10, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110210143618/http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=12877 |url-status=live }}</ref> In late October 1985, the production moved to Los Angeles, and shooting ended on November 22.<ref>{{cite web |title=Ferris Bueller's Day Off: Miscellaneous Notes |url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/4563/ferris-buellers-day-off#notes |publisher=[[Turner Classic Movies]] (TCM) |access-date=2014-07-19 |archive-date=August 9, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140809163206/http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/4563/Ferris-Bueller-s-Day-Off/misc-notes.html |url-status=live }}</ref> The [[Von Steuben Day]] Parade scene was filmed on September 28. Scenes were filmed at several locations in [[downtown Chicago]] and [[Winnetka, Illinois|Winnetka]] (Ferris's home, his mother's real estate office, etc.).<ref name="Ferris Bueller Film Locations">{{cite news |url=http://chicago.curbed.com/archives/2014/10/07/save-ferris-the-ultimate-map-guide-to-ferris-buellers-day-off.php |title=Save Ferris: The Ultimate Map Guide to Ferris Bueller |work=[[Curbed]] |date=2014-10-07 |access-date=2015-03-09 |archive-date=February 9, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150209205700/http://chicago.curbed.com/archives/2014/10/07/save-ferris-the-ultimate-map-guide-to-ferris-buellers-day-off.php |url-status=live }}</ref> Many of the other scenes were filmed in [[Northbrook, Illinois]], including at [[Glenbrook North High School]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.avclub.com/video/chicago-the-iferris-bueller-ihigh-school-57337 |title=Chicago: The Ferris Bueller high school |newspaper=[[The A.V. Club]] |date=2011-07-29 |access-date=2015-03-09 |archive-date=March 21, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150321001348/http://www.avclub.com/video/chicago-the-iferris-bueller-ihigh-school-57337 |url-status=live }}</ref> The exterior of Ferris's house is located at 4160 Country Club Drive, [[Long Beach, California]],<ref name="Ferris Bueller Film Locations" /> which, at the time of filming, was the childhood home of Judge [[Thad Balkman]].<ref>{{cite news | url = https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/26/health/oklahoma-opioid-judge-thad-balkman-profile/index.html | title = From Ferris Bueller to opioid trial: A judge's wild ride into history | first = Wayne | last = Drash | date = August 26, 2019 | access-date = August 26, 2019 | work = [[CNN]] | archive-date = August 26, 2019 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190826221209/https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/26/health/oklahoma-opioid-judge-thad-balkman-profile/index.html | url-status = live }}</ref> The [[Modernist architecture|modernist]] house of Cameron Frye is located in [[Highland Park, Illinois]]. Known as the [[Ben Rose House]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/370-Beech-Street_Highland-Park_IL_60035_1109385563 |title=For Sale: Property Information for 370 Beech Street |publisher='[[Move.com|Realtor.com]] |date=2009-05-27 |access-date=2009-05-27 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090528022335/http://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/370-Beech-Street_Highland-Park_IL_60035_1109385563 |archive-date=May 28, 2009 |df=mdy-all}}</ref> 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 (photographer)|Ben Rose]], who had a car collection in the pavilion. In the film, Cameron's father is portrayed as owning a [[Ferrari 250#250 GT Spyder California SWB|Ferrari 250 GT California]] in the same pavilion.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.landmarks.org/2009_5.htm |title=Rose House and Pavilion |date=2011-12-28 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090923190550/http://www.landmarks.org/2009_5.htm |archive-date=September 23, 2009}}</ref> 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.<ref name="rose-house">{{cite web |url=http://www.landmarks.org/2009_5.htm |title=Rose House and Pavilion |access-date=2009-12-08 |publisher=Landmarks Preservation Council of Illinois |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090923190550/http://www.landmarks.org/2009_5.htm |archive-date=September 23, 2009}}</ref> 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.<ref name="rose-house" /> 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.<ref>Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/nmVaIYv8ZLo Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20190622212155/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmVaIYv8ZLo&gl=US&hl=en Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{cite AV media |date=Aug 13, 2016 |title='Ferris Bueller's Day Off' – John Hughes Commentary – Car Crash |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmVaIYv8ZLo |via=[[YouTube]] }}{{cbignore}}</ref> [[File:Art Institute of Chicago from south.jpg|thumb|alt=The Romanesque facade of the Art Institute of Chicago is pictured|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.<ref name="DVDCommShoot" /> "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.<ref name="bratpackbook" /> 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 ''[[Marc Chagall#America Windows, Chicago|America Windows]]'' ([[Marc Chagall]], 1977), in front of which Ferris and Sloane have a romantic moment.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/how-ferris-buellers-day-perfectly-illustrates-power-art-museums-180959279/ |title=How Ferris Bueller's Day Off Perfectly Illustrates the Power of Art Museums |first=Katie |last=Nodjimbadem |date=June 1, 2016 |access-date=August 12, 2019 |work=[[Smithsonian (magazine)|Smithsonian]] |archive-date=August 12, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190812204436/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/how-ferris-buellers-day-perfectly-illustrates-power-art-museums-180959279/ |url-status=live }}</ref> A passionate [[the Beatles|Beatles]] fan, Hughes makes multiple references to them and [[John Lennon]] in the script. While filming, Hughes listened to their [[The Beatles (album)|self-titled 1968 album]] every single day for 56 days.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/ferris-buellers-day-off-upset-paul-mccartney/ | title=Why 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' upset Paul McCartney | date=September 14, 2021 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |title=Molly Ringwald Interviews John Hughes |date=Spring 1986 |journal=[[Seventeen (American magazine)|Seventeen]]}}</ref> Hughes also pays tribute to his childhood hero [[Gordie Howe]] with Cameron's [[Detroit Red Wings]] jersey.<ref>{{cite journal |url=https://medium.com/mel-magazine/why-cameron-frye-wore-a-gordie-howe-jersey-in-ferris-buellers-day-off-adfc36129fd5|title=Why Cameron Frye Wore a Gordie Howe Jersey in 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' |first=John |last=McDermott |date=June 11, 2016 |journal=Medium |access-date=July 21, 2017 |archive-date=November 1, 2023 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20231101144942/https://medium.com/mel-magazine/why-cameron-frye-wore-a-gordie-howe-jersey-in-ferris-buellers-day-off-adfc36129fd5|url-status=live }}</ref> "I sent them the jersey," said Howe. "It was nice seeing the No. 9 on the big screen."<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Q&A with Gordie Howe |date=May 5, 2009 |url=https://www.si.com/more-sports/2009/05/15/gordie-howe |magazine=[[Sports Illustrated]] |first=Arash |last=Markazi |access-date=December 11, 2017 |archive-date=January 14, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170114115820/http://www.si.com/more-sports/2009/05/15/gordie-howe |url-status=live }}</ref> ====Car==== [[File:1961-ferrari-rc.jpg|thumb|alt=A red sports car is pictured|A 1961 Ferrari GT California]] In the film, Ferris convinces Cameron to borrow his father's rare 1961 [[Ferrari 250|Ferrari 250 GT California Spyder]]. "The [[Insert (filmmaking)|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."<ref name="DVDCommShoot" /> Prior to filming, Hughes learned about Modena Design and Development that produced the Modena Spyder California, a replica of the Ferrari 250 GT.<ref name='ferris-glassmoyer'>{{cite news |title=Ferrari California replica from Ferris Bueller is so choice |date=June 29, 2013 |first=Seyth |last=Miersma |url=http://www.autoblog.com/2013/06/29/ferrari-california-replica-from-ferris-bueller-is-so-choice/ |work=Auto Blog |access-date=2017-07-21 |archive-date=April 7, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140407084432/http://www.autoblog.com/2013/06/29/ferrari-california-replica-from-ferris-bueller-is-so-choice/ |url-status=live }}</ref> 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: {{blockquote|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 (filmmaker)|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.<ref name='ferris-glassmoyer' />}} Automobile restorationist Mark Goyette designed the kits for three reproductions used in the film and chronicled the whereabouts of the cars today:<ref name='ferris-goyette'>{{cite news |first=David Traver |last=Adolphus |title=Save these Cars – Hollywood, California: Part II |date=December 1, 2009 |url=http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2009/12/01/save-these-cars-hollywood-california-part-ii/ |work=Hemmings Auto blog |access-date=2017-07-21 |archive-date=March 3, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303174122/http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2009/12/01/save-these-cars-hollywood-california-part-ii/ |url-status=usurped }}</ref> # "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."<ref name='ferris-goyette' /> # "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."<ref name='ferris-goyette' /> # "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."<ref name='ferris-goyette' /> One of the "replicars" was sold by [[Bonhams]] on April 19, 2010, at the [[Royal Air Force Museum London|Royal Air Force Museum]] at [[Hendon]], [[United Kingdom]] for {{GBP|79600|2010}}.<ref name='bonhams'>{{cite news |title=Ferrari replica created for Ferris Bueller's Day Off for sale |date=March 30, 2010 |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/film-news/7538543/Ferrari-replica-created-for-Ferris-Buellers-Day-Off-for-sale.html |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |access-date=2017-07-21 |archive-date=May 4, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210504022357/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/film-news/7538543/Ferrari-replica-created-for-Ferris-Buellers-Day-Off-for-sale.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name='bonham'>{{cite news |first=Christopher |last=Campbell |title=Buy the 'Ferris Bueller' Ferrari For Only $67,000 |date=March 30, 2010 |url =http://www.cinematical.com/2010/03/30/buy-the-ferris-bueller-ferrari-for-only-67-000/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100603053121/http://www.cinematical.com/2010/03/30/buy-the-ferris-bueller-ferrari-for-only-67-000/ |archive-date=2010-06-03 |work=Cinematical.com |access-date=2010-03-30}}</ref> Another "replicar" used in the movie, serial number 001, referenced as the "hero car" that Goyette stated "hasn't emerged since" was sold at the 2020 Scottsdale Barrett-Jackson Collector Car Auction on January 18, 2020, for {{US$|396000|2020}}.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.barrett-jackson.com/Events/Event/Details/1963-MODENA-SPYDER-CALIFORNIA-GTC0001-FERRIS-BUELLERS-DAY-OFF-241009 |title=1963 MODENA SPYDER CALIFORNIA #GTC0001 'FERRIS BUELLer's DAY – Barrett-Jackson Auction Company – World's Greatest Collector Car Auctions |access-date=January 19, 2020 |archive-date=February 20, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200220115128/https://www.barrett-jackson.com/Events/Event/Details/1963-MODENA-SPYDER-CALIFORNIA-GTC0001-FERRIS-BUELLERS-DAY-OFF-241009 |url-status=live }}</ref> 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.<ref name="bratpackbook" /> The car was built with a real wheel base, but used a [[Ford V8 engine]] instead of a V12.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://uncrate.com/stuff/ferris-buellers-day-off-ferrari/ |title=Ferris Bueller's Day Off Ferrari |publisher=Uncrate |access-date=2014-07-19 |archive-date=April 13, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130413080703/http://uncrate.com/stuff/ferris-buellers-day-off-ferrari/ |url-status=live }}</ref> At the time of filming, the original 250 GT California model was worth $350,000.<ref name="bratpackbook" /> Since the release of the film, it has become one of the [[List of most expensive cars sold at auction|most expensive cars ever sold]], going at auction in 2008 for {{US$|10976000|2008|long=no}}<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cargurus.com/blog/2009/05/22/the-five-most-expensive-cars-ever-sold-at-auction |title=The Five Most Expensive Cars Ever Sold At Auction |author=tgriffith |publisher=The CarGurus Blog |date=2009-05-22 |access-date=2010-03-29 |archive-date=March 15, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100315045330/http://www.cargurus.com/blog/2009/05/22/the-five-most-expensive-cars-ever-sold-at-auction |url-status=live }}</ref> and more recently in 2015 for {{US$|16830000|2015|long=no}}.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://blog.caranddriver.com/hammer-down-the-25-most-expensive-cars-at-the-2015-monterey-auctions/ |title=Hammer Down: The 25 Most Expensive Cars at the 2015 Monterey Auctions |first=Rusty |last=Blackwell |work=[[Car and Driver]] |date=2015-08-18 |access-date=2015-09-06 |archive-date=September 5, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150905155102/http://blog.caranddriver.com/hammer-down-the-25-most-expensive-cars-at-the-2015-monterey-auctions/ |url-status=live }}</ref> 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.<ref name='stein-role' /> ====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."<ref>{{cite news |first=Bob |last=Thomas |title=Sad Wise Eyes in a Boy's Face |date=1986-06-19 |work=[[Argus-Press]] |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=00QiAAAAIBAJ&pg=3254,3793155 |agency=[[Associated Press]] |page=9 |access-date=2017-07-22 |archive-date=May 4, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210504022358/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=00QiAAAAIBAJ&pg=3254%2C3793155 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |first=Bob |last=Thomas |title=Young star of Ferris Bueller seeks to get away from high school roles |date=1986-06-19 |work=[[Ottawa Citizen]] |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=saQyAAAAIBAJ&pg=1289,4733180 |agency=Associated Press |pages=F17 |access-date=2017-07-21 |archive-date=May 4, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210504022345/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=saQyAAAAIBAJ&pg=1289%2C4733180 |url-status=live }}</ref> Broderick's moves were choreographed by [[Kenny Ortega]] (who later choreographed ''[[Dirty Dancing]]''). Much of it had to be scrapped, though, for 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."<ref name="bratpackbook">{{cite book |last=Gora |first=Susannah |title=You Couldn't Ignore Me If You Tried. The Brat Pack, John Hughes, and Their Impact on a Generation |publisher=Crown |date=2010-02-09 |page=176 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XawD2yexM_kC&q=ferris+bueller |isbn=978-0307408433}}</ref> 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."<ref name="DVDCommShoot" /> ====Wrigley Field==== [[File:Saveferris-wrigleyfield.jpg|thumb|alt=Wrigley Field at night lit up to say 'Save Ferris'|''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 [[Harry Caray]]'s voice 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 [[1985 Atlanta Braves season|Atlanta Braves]] and the [[1985 Chicago Cubs season|Chicago Cubs]].<ref name="Larry Granillo" /><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.avclub.com/article/ferris-buellers-actual-day-was-30-years-ago-today-220465 |title=Ferris Bueller's actual day off was 30 years ago today |first=Annie |last=Zaleski |date=2015-06-05 |access-date=2015-06-05 |newspaper=[[The A.V. Club]] |archive-date=June 6, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150606033748/http://www.avclub.com/article/ferris-buellers-actual-day-was-30-years-ago-today-220465 |url-status=live}}</ref> 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 [[1985 Montreal Expos season|Montreal Expos]] and the Cubs. During the [[1985 Major League Baseball season|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.<ref>{{cite web |first=Larry |last=Granillo |title=Ferris Bueller Follow-up |url=http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=12899 |publisher=Baseball Prospectus |date=2011-02-08 |access-date=2011-02-10 |archive-date=February 12, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110212144424/http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=12899 |url-status=live}}</ref> On October 1, 2011, Wrigley Field celebrated the 25th anniversary of the film by showing it on three giant screens on the infield.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.espn.com/chicago/mlb/story/_/id/7048417/ferris-bueller-returns-wrigley-field |title=Ferris Bueller returns to Wrigley Field |publisher=ESPN |date=October 1, 2011 |access-date=July 19, 2014 |archive-date=August 8, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140808143714/http://espn.go.com/chicago/mlb/story/_/id/7048417/ferris-bueller-returns-wrigley-field |url-status=live}}</ref> ==Post-production== ===Editing=== [[File:A Sunday on La Grande Jatte, Georges Seurat, 1884.png|alt=Georges Seurat, A Sunday on La Grande Jatte — 1884, 1884/86|thumb|Cameron is transfixed by [[Georges Seurat]]'s ''[[A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte]]''.]] According to editor [[Paul Hirsch (film 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.<ref name="ferris-edit">{{cite book |last=Oldham |first=Gabriella |title=First Cut: Conversations with Film Editors |publisher=University of California Press |year=1995 |pages=191–192 |isbn=0-520-07588-9}}</ref> {{blockquote|The piece of music I originally chose was a [[classical guitar]] solo played on acoustic guitar. It was [[wikt:nonmetrical|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.<ref name="ferris-edit" />}} 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]]. ===Deleted scenes=== Several [[Deleted scene|scenes were cut from the final film]]; one lost scene titled "[[Islets of Langerhans|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.<ref>Chaney, Jen: "[https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/09/AR2006010900642.html 'Bueller, Bueller' Edition Almost Saves 'Ferris'] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171107020808/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/09/AR2006010900642.html |date=November 7, 2017}}", ''[[The Washington Post]]'', January 10, 2006</ref> These scenes included additional screen time with Jeanie 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.<ref name="bratpackbook" /> 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 are 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.<ref name="Inside Story">{{cite episode |title=Inside Story: Ferris Bueller |series=Biography: Inside Story |network=The Biography Channel |date=15 November 2011}}</ref> The script also included more dialogue that would have explained Charlie Sheen's character and provided more context to his scene. Though Sheen's character was not named in the film, the script identified him as Garth Volbeck, a friend of Ferris from middle school with a difficult home life. Early in the script, Ferris spoke about how he tried to help Garth turn his life around, but was ultimately unsuccessful as Garth threw his life away due to his substance abuse. This ultimately led to Sheen's appearance in the police station, where he reveals that he is Garth. The scene provided extra context to why Ferris's motivation as to why he wanted to show Cameron a memorable day – Garth represented Cameron's future if Ferris did not get involved. The backstory would have also given additional context as to why Garth was so complimentary towards Ferris in the scene with Jeanie – he still felt loyalty to Ferris from his time when they were friends.<ref>{{cite web |last=Gaughan |first=Liam |date=December 26, 2023 |title=Charlie Sheen's Part in 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' Would've Meant More With This Deleted Scene |url=https://collider.com/charlie-sheen-ferris-bueller-deleted-scene/ |publisher=[[Collider (website)|Collider]] |access-date=January 2, 2024 |archive-date=January 2, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240102231353/https://collider.com/charlie-sheen-ferris-bueller-deleted-scene/ |url-status=live}}</ref> ==Music== ===Limited edition fan club soundtrack=== An official soundtrack was not originally released for the film, since director [[John Hughes (filmmaker)|John Hughes]] felt the songs would not work well together as a continuous album.<ref>{{cite news | first=William | last=Ham | title=John Hughes: Straight Outta Sherman | url=http://www.lollipop.com/issue47/47-02-03.html | work=Lollipop Magazine | access-date=December 12, 2009 | archive-date=August 19, 2000 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000819144335/http://www.lollipop.com/issue47/47-02-03.html | url-status=live }}</ref> 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.<ref name="lollipop">''Lollipop'' Magazine article: "[http://www.lollipop.com/issue47/47-02-03.html John Hughes – Straight Outta Sherman] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000819144335/http://www.lollipop.com/issue47/47-02-03.html |date=August 19, 2000 }}" By William Ham.</ref> Hughes gave further details about his refusal to release a soundtrack in the ''Lollipop'' interview: {{blockquote|The only official soundtrack that ''Ferris Bueller's Day Off'' ever had was for the mailing list. [[A&M Records|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 (Yello song)|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.<ref name="lollipop" />}} ===Songs in the film=== 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]]) * "[[String Quintet in E major, Op. 11, No. 5 (Boccherini)|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 Beat (British band)|The Beat]] * "[[Oh Yeah (Yello song)|Oh Yeah]]" by [[Yello]] * "BAD" by [[Big Audio Dynamite]] "Danke Schoen" is one of the recurring [[Motif (music)|motifs]] in the film and is sung by Ferris, Ed Rooney, and Jeanie. 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."<ref name="DVDCommShoot" /> According to Broderick, Ferris's singing "Danke Schoen" in the shower was [[Improvisation|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."<ref name="hughesactors">{{cite magazine | date=March 20, 2010 | first=David | last=Kamp | title=John Hughes' Actors on John Hughes | url=https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2010/03/actors-on-john-hughes-201003 | magazine=Vanity Fair | access-date=August 27, 2020 | archive-date=September 18, 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200918074031/https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2010/03/actors-on-john-hughes-201003 | url-status=live }}</ref> 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."<ref name="YouTube 2014">{{cite web | title=Wayne Newton on Ferris Bueller and Bobby Darin | website=Chicago Sun-Times | date=June 18, 2014 | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcZL0rUsIVc | access-date=October 20, 2022 | archive-date=January 21, 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230121054517/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcZL0rUsIVc | url-status=live }}</ref> ''Ferris Bueller's Day Off'' propelled the Beatles' 1963 recording of "Twist and Shout" back onto the ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'' [[Hot 100]] chart, where it peaked at No. 23 on September 27, 1986, 22 years after its original issue in the US. ===2016 soundtrack=== {{Infobox album | name = Ferris Bueller's Day Off | type = soundtrack | artist = various artists | cover =blank | alt = | released = September 13, 2016 | recorded = | venue = | studio = | genre = [[New wave music|New wave]] | length = 76:47 | label = La-La Land Records | producer = | prev_title = | prev_year = | next_title = | next_year = }} 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 music|new wave]] and [[pop music|pop]] songs featured in the film, as well as [[Ira Newborn]]'s complete score, including unused cues.<ref name="pitchfork">{{cite web |last=Yoo |first=Noah |title=Ferris Bueller's Day Off Soundtrack to Get First Official Release |url=http://pitchfork.com/news/68069-ferris-buellers-day-off-soundtrack-to-get-first-official-release |website=Pitchfork.com |date=September 6, 2016 |access-date=6 September 2016 |archive-date=September 7, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160907015748/http://pitchfork.com/news/68069-ferris-buellers-day-off-soundtrack-to-get-first-official-release/ |url-status=live }}</ref> 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.<ref name="pitchfork" /><ref>{{cite web |last=O'Neal |first=Sean |title=Ferris Bueller's Day Off soundtrack arrives after skipping the past 30 years |url=http://www.avclub.com/article/ferris-buellers-day-soundtrack-arrives-after-skipp-242198 |website=[[The A.V. Club]] |access-date=6 September 2016 |date=6 September 2016 |archive-date=September 7, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160907140741/http://www.avclub.com/article/ferris-buellers-day-soundtrack-arrives-after-skipp-242198 |url-status=live }}</ref> ==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."<ref>{{cite web |date=June 11, 1986 |last=Ebert |first=Roger |author-link=Roger Ebert |title=Ferris Bueller's Day Off movie review (1986) |url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/ferris-buellers-day-off-1986 |website=Chicago Sun-Times |access-date=August 27, 2020 |archive-date=September 3, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200903022823/https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/ferris-buellers-day-off-1986 |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Richard Roeper]] called the film: {{cquote|.. 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.''<ref>{{cite news | first=Richard| last=Roeper | author-link= Richard Roeper | title='Ferris' could never go too far, to our delight | date=2009-08-07 | url =http://blog.richardroeper.com/?p=1119 | archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20110614043238/http://blog.richardroeper.com/?p=1119 | archive-date =2011-06-14 | work =Richard Roeper |url-status=dead| access-date = 2020-08-27 }}</ref>}} Roeper pays homage to the film with a license plate that reads "SVFRRIS".<ref>{{cite news | first=Richard | last=Roeper |author-link= Richard Roeper | title=Save Ferris | date=2009-08-07 | url =http://blog.richardroeper.com/?p=1122 | archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20120303231551/http://blog.richardroeper.com/?p=1122 | archive-date =2012-03-03 | access-date = 2010-02-26}}</ref> 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."<ref>{{cite news | first=Steve | last=Almond | title=John Hughes Goes Deep: The Unexpected Heaviosity of Ferris Bueller's Day Off | year=2006 | url =http://www.vqronline.org/articles/2006/summer/almond-john-hughes/ | archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20130608074443/http://www.vqronline.org/articles/2006/summer/almond-john-hughes/ | archive-date =2013-06-08 | work =Virginia Quarterly Review | access-date = 2010-03-18 }}</ref> ''[[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."<ref name="nyt-ferris">{{cite news | first=Nina | last=Darnton | title=SCREEN: A YOUTH'S DAY OFF | date=1986-06-11 | url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9A0DE5DB1E3BF932A25755C0A960948260 | work=The New York Times | access-date=2010-03-27 | archive-date=May 4, 2021 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210504022352/https://www.nytimes.com/1986/06/11/movies/screen-a-youth-s-day-off.html | url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|work=[[The New York Times]]|title=Timesmachine.nytimes.com|date=June 11, 1986|url=http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1986/06/11/284286.html|access-date=June 11, 2016|archive-date=May 4, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210504022353/https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1986/06/11/284286.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Conversely, Darnton praised Ruck and Grey's performances: {{cquote|The two people who grow in the movie{{mdash}}Cameron, played with humor and sensitivity by Alan Ruck, and Ferris's sister Jeanie, played with appropriate self-pity by Jennifer Grey{{mdash}}are the most authentic. Grey manages to play an insufferably sulky teen-ager who is still attractive and likable.<ref name="nyt-ferris" />}} Co-star Ben Stein was exceptionally moved by the film, calling it "the most life-affirming movie possibly of the entire post-war period."<ref>{{cite news | first=Mark | last=Preston | title=Preston on Politics: Bueller? Bueller? – McCain needs Rove | date=2008-07-28 | url=http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/07/27/preston.mccain/index.html?iref=newssearch | work=CNN | access-date=2009-12-12 | archive-date=September 12, 2008 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080912135051/http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/07/27/preston.mccain/index.html?iref=newssearch | url-status=live }}</ref> "This is to comedies what ''[[Gone with the Wind (film)|Gone with the Wind]]'' is to epics," Stein added. {{cquote|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.<ref name="DVD-WATBS">{{cite video|title=Ferris Bueller's Day Off-(World According to Ben Stein)|medium=DVD|publisher=[[Paramount Pictures]]|date=2006}}</ref>}} ''[[National Review]]'' writer Mark Hemingway lauded the film's celebration of liberty. {{cquote|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.<ref>{{cite news | first=Mark | last=Hemingway | title=Missing John Hughes | date=2009-08-10 | url=http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/228039/missing-john-hughes/mark-hemingway | work=National Review | access-date=2009-12-12 | archive-date=August 31, 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140831131959/http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/228039/missing-john-hughes/mark-hemingway | url-status=live }}</ref>}} Others were less enamored of ''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]]."<ref>{{cite news | first=David | last=Denby | title=Movies | date=1986-12-22 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2-cCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA142 | work=New York Magazine | access-date=2010-03-21 | archive-date=May 4, 2021 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210504022405/https://books.google.com/books?id=2-cCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA142 | url-status=live }}</ref> 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..."<ref>{{cite book | last1 = Christina | first1 = Lee | title = Screening Generation X: the politics and popular memory of youth in contemporary cinema | year = 2010 | publisher = Ashgate | isbn = 978-0-7546-4973-1}}</ref> [[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."<ref name="Ferris Bueller">{{cite news | first1 = Gene | last1= Siskel | first2 = Roger | last2 = Ebert |author-link1 = Gene Siskel | author-link2 = Roger Ebert | title=Ferris Bueller | year=1986 | work =At the Movies }}</ref> 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.<ref name="Ferris Bueller" /> On [[Rotten Tomatoes]], the film has an approval rating of 82% based on 77 critics' reviews, with an average rating of 7.80/10. 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."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/ferris_buellers_day_off/ |title=Ferris Bueller's Day Off |website=[[Rotten Tomatoes]] |access-date=June 23, 2021 |archive-date=January 16, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210116055256/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/ferris_buellers_day_off |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Metacritic]] gave the film a score of 61 based on 13 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".<ref>{{cite web |title=Ferris Bueller's Day Off Reviews |url=https://www.metacritic.com/movie/ferris-buellers-day-off |website=[[Metacritic]] |access-date=January 28, 2020 |archive-date=August 11, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200811105818/https://www.metacritic.com/movie/ferris-buellers-day-off |url-status=live }}</ref> Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A−" on an A+ to F scale.<ref>{{cite web|date=2018-12-20|title=Cinemascore :: Movie Title Search|url=https://www.cinemascore.com/publicsearch/index/title/|access-date=2020-07-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181220122629/https://www.cinemascore.com/publicsearch/index/title/|archive-date=December 20, 2018}}</ref> ===Accolades=== Broderick was nominated for a [[Golden Globe Award]] in [[44th Golden Globe Awards|1987]] for [[Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy|Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.goldenglobes.com/winners-nominees/1987/all#category-1890 |title=Winners & Nominees 1987 |publisher=[[Hollywood Foreign Press Association]] |access-date=November 11, 2020 |archive-date=September 7, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170907074020/http://www.goldenglobes.com/winners-nominees/1987/all#category-1890 |url-status=live }}</ref> ===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.<ref name="mojo">{{cite web |url=http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=ferrisbuellersdayoff.htm |title=Ferris Buellers's Day Off |work=[[Box Office Mojo]] |access-date=June 5, 2008 |archive-date=December 8, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081208112051/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=ferrisbuellersdayoff.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> It subsequently became the [[1986 in film#Highest-grossing films|10th-highest-grossing film of 1986]].<ref name="bueller">{{cite web|url=http://www.dvdfanatic.com/review.php?id=bueller |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060209143721/http://www.dvdfanatic.com/review.php?id=bueller |archive-date=2006-02-09 |title=''Ferris Bueller's Day Off – Bueller Bueller Edition'' |url-status=usurped |access-date=2014-07-19}}</ref> ===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 (American TV network)|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".<ref>[http://ew.com/gallery/50-best-high-school-movies-0/10-ferris-buellers-day-off-1986 50 Best High School Movies] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170830004705/http://ew.com/gallery/50-best-high-school-movies-0/10-ferris-buellers-day-off-1986/ |date=August 30, 2017}}. ''Entertainment Weekly''.</ref> ==Cultural influence== [[File:Barbara Bush portrait.jpg|alt=Barbara Bush, wearing pearls and a dress, is shown smiling|thumb|left|upright| [[Barbara Bush]] used dialogue from the film at a [[commencement speech]].<ref name="barbarabush" />]] [[John Hughes (filmmaker)|John Hughes]] said of Bueller, "That kid will either become [[President of the United States]] or go to prison."<ref name="orourke20150322">{{cite news |last=O'Rourke |first=P.J. |author-link=P. J. O'Rourke |title=Don't You Forget About Me: The John Hughes I Knew |url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/03/22/how-john-hughes-made-conservatism-funny |url-status=live |website=The Daily Beast |date=March 22, 2015 |access-date=April 26, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210503021001/https://www.thedailybeast.com/dont-you-forget-about-me-the-john-hughes-i-knew |archive-date=May 3, 2021}}</ref> U.S. President [[Ronald Reagan]] viewed the film at [[Camp David]] on June 21, 1986.<ref>{{cite web |title=Films Viewed by President and Mrs. Reagan {{!}} Ronald Reagan |url=https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/sreference/films-viewed-by-president-and-mrs-reagan |url-status=live |access-date=October 25, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200925224014/https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/sreference/films-viewed-by-president-and-mrs-reagan |archive-date=September 25, 2020}}</ref> 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 <!-- Do not "fix" this quote to what Ferris said in the film. This is a direct quotation of what Barbara Bush said. -->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 H. W. Bush|George]] you clapped more for Ferris than you clapped for George."<ref name="barbarabush">Barbara Pierce Bush, ''Commencement Address at Wellesley College'' (June 1, 1990) [https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/barbarabushwellesleycommencement.htm Americanrhetoric.com] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190119121527/https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/barbarabushwellesleycommencement.htm |date=January 19, 2019}}</ref><ref name="Chaney">{{cite news |date=10 June 2011 |last=Chaney |first=Jen |title='Ferris Bueller's Day Off' and its 25 contributions to pop culture lore |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/celebritology/post/ferris-buellers-day-off-and-its-25-contributions-to-pop-culture-lore/2011/06/10/AGZetzOH_blog.html |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |access-date=August 27, 2017 |archive-date=July 30, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170730081511/https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/celebritology/post/ferris-buellers-day-off-and-its-25-contributions-to-pop-culture-lore/2011/06/10/AGZetzOH_blog.html |url-status=live }}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite news | last=Andrews | first=Casandra | title=The cast of ''Bueller'': Where are they now? | work=[[Press-Register]] | date=February 5, 2006}}</ref> In fact, Stein's monotone performance launched his acting career.<ref>{{cite magazine | url = https://money.cnn.com/2008/03/06/pf/minds_over_money.moneymag/ | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130730100318/https://money.cnn.com/2008/03/06/pf/minds_over_money.moneymag/ | archive-date = 2013-07-30 | title = Ben Stein: What, him worry? | magazine = [[Money (magazine)|Money]]| date = 2008-03-13 | access-date = 2009-04-07 | first = Eric | last = Schurenberg}}</ref> In 2016, Stein reprised the attendance scene in a campaign ad<ref>Ad may be viewed at Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/vDEdrlR84MU Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20161021114428/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDEdrlR84MU Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDEdrlR84MU |title=Judge advertisement |via=[[YouTube]] |access-date=January 17, 2017 }}{{cbignore}}</ref> 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."<ref>Robillard, Kevin, ''Politico'', October 21, 2016, "[https://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/ben-stein-chuck-grassley-ferris-bueller-230136 Ben Stein reprises 'Bueller' role in Grassley ad] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200729060901/https://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/ben-stein-chuck-grassley-ferris-bueller-230136 |date=July 29, 2020 }}"</ref> Broderick said of the Bueller role, "It eclipsed everything, I should admit, and to some degree it still does."<ref name="bratpackbook" /> 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?'"<ref>{{cite news | first=Greg | last=Braxton | title=John Hughes High School reunion | date=2010-03-08 | url=http://theenvelope.latimes.com/awards/oscars/la-et-oscars-hughes8-2010mar08,0,5063722.story | work=[[Los Angeles Times]] | access-date=2010-03-18 | archive-date=October 24, 2012 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121024144825/http://www.theenvelope.latimes.com/awards/oscars/la-et-oscars-hughes8-2010mar08%2C0%2C5063722.story | url-status=dead}}</ref> In a 2023 interview, Broderick stated that the 1990s "were hard" after starring in the film.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/aug/04/my-legacy-im-ferris-bueller-matthew-broderick-on-life-love-and-opioids | title='My legacy? I'm Ferris Bueller': Matthew Broderick on life, love and opioids | work=The Guardian | date=August 4, 2023 | last1=Brooks | first1=Xan }}</ref> [[Matthew Broderick]] reprises his role of 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.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.digitalspy.com/movies/a29586961/shared-universe-ghostbusters-ferris-bueller-80s/ |title=Ghostbusters, Frasier, Ferris Bueller and more are in a SHARED UNIVERSE |publisher=Digitalspy.com |date=2019-10-27 |accessdate=2022-03-22 |archive-date=March 21, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220321155523/https://www.digitalspy.com/movies/a29586961/shared-universe-ghostbusters-ferris-bueller-80s/ |url-status=live }}</ref> 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."<ref name="alan-ruck-remembers">{{cite magazine | author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> | title=John Hughes Remembered: Alan Ruck, Cameron from 'Ferris Bueller' | date=2009-08-13 | magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]] | url=https://ew.com/article/2009/08/13/john-hughes-remembered-alan-ruck/ | access-date=August 27, 2020 | archive-date=May 4, 2021 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210504022420/https://ew.com/article/2009/08/13/john-hughes-remembered-alan-ruck/ | url-status=live }}</ref> "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."<ref name="alan-ruck-remembers" /> {{anchor|Matthew's Day Off}}Broderick starred in a television advertisement prepared by [[Honda]] promoting its [[Honda CR-V (fourth generation)|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.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ferris-bueller-ad-story,0,5397206.story | archive-url = https://archive.today/20120722082332/http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ferris-bueller-ad-story,0,5397206.story | url-status = dead | archive-date = 2012-07-22 | title = Honda releases complete Ferris Bueller ad | work = [[Chicago Tribune]] | date = 2012-01-30 | access-date = 2012-01-30 | first = Rob | last = Manker }}</ref> It was produced by Santa Monica-based [[Rubin Postaer and Associates|RPA]] and directed by [[Todd Phillips]].<ref name="adweek.com">{{cite news | title = Honda Unveils Ferris Bueller Ad, and It Is Awesome | date = 2012-01-30 | url = http://www.adweek.com/adfreak/honda-unveils-ferris-bueller-ad-and-it-awesome-137831 | work = AdWeek | access-date = 2012-01-31 | archive-date = January 31, 2012 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120131163625/http://www.adweek.com/adfreak/honda-unveils-ferris-bueller-ad-and-it-awesome-137831 | url-status = live }}</ref> [[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."<ref name="adweek.com" /> On the other hand, ''[[Jalopnik]]''{{'}}s Matt Hardigree called the spot "sacrilegious".<ref>{{cite web | url = http://jalopnik.com/5880570/save-ferris-from-hondas-sacrilegious-super-bowl-ad | title = SAVE FERRIS From Honda's Sacrilegious Super Bowl Ad | work = [[Jalopnik]] | date = 2012-01-30 | access-date = 2012-01-30 | first = Matt | last = Hardigree | archive-date = February 1, 2012 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120201193630/http://jalopnik.com/5880570/save-ferris-from-hondas-sacrilegious-super-bowl-ad | url-status = live }}</ref><ref name="Tele">{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturevideo/filmvideo/9050065/Ferris-Bueller-stars-in-Honda-Super-Bowl-advert.html |date=January 30, 2012 |title='Ferris Bueller' stars in Honda Super Bowl advert |format=Article, video |newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |access-date=January 5, 2017 |archive-date=January 6, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170106105447/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturevideo/filmvideo/9050065/Ferris-Bueller-stars-in-Honda-Super-Bowl-advert.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> 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 (2013 TV series)|The Goldbergs]]'',<ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.avclub.com/the-middle-steaming-pile-of-guilt-the-goldbergs-1798182876 | title = The Middle: "Steaming Pile of Guilt" / The Goldbergs: "Barry Goldberg's Day Off" | first = Will | last = Harris | date = February 26, 2015 | access-date = August 12, 2019 | work = [[The A.V. Club]] | archive-date = August 12, 2019 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190812203717/https://tv.avclub.com/the-middle-steaming-pile-of-guilt-the-goldbergs-1798182876 | url-status = live }}</ref> "Brian Finch's Black Op" from ''[[Limitless (TV series)|Limitless]]'',<ref>{{cite magazine | url = https://ew.com/recap/limitless-season-1-episode-7/ | title = 'Limitless' recap: 'Brian Finch's Black Op' | first = Devan | last = Coggan | date = November 4, 2015 | access-date = August 12, 2019 | magazine = [[Entertainment Weekly]] | archive-date = August 12, 2019 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190812140005/https://ew.com/recap/limitless-season-1-episode-7/ | url-status = live }}</ref> and "Turner's and Brenda's Day Off" from [[South Side (TV series)|South Side]].<ref>{{cite magazine | url = https://ew.com/tv/south-side-paid-tribute-to-ferris-buellers-day-off/ | title = See how HBO Max's South Side paid homage to Ferris Bueller's Day Off | first = Marcus | last = Jones | date = November 19, 2021 | access-date = March 26, 2022 | magazine = [[Entertainment Weekly]] | url-status = live | archive-date = March 26, 2022 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220326170517/https://ew.com/tv/south-side-paid-tribute-to-ferris-buellers-day-off/ }}</ref> In March 2017, [[Domino's Pizza]] began an advertising campaign parodying the film, featuring actor [[Joe Keery]] in the lead role.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/dominos-pizza-channels-ferris-buellers-day-off-in-latest-ad-campaign |date=March 21, 2017 |title=Domino's Pizza channels 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' in latest ad campaign |newspaper=[[Fox News]] |access-date=April 15, 2017 |archive-date=April 16, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170416220942/http://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/2017/03/21/dominos-pizza-channels-ferris-buellers-day-off-in-latest-ad-campaign.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Early in 2020, internet personality [[Zach King]] released a short film parody on his [[YouTube]] channel.<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2020-03-20 |title=Zach King Pays Homage to "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" |url=https://theawesomer.com/zach-kings-day-off/564656/ |access-date=2022-11-28 |website=The Awesomer |language=en-US |archive-date=November 28, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221128021101/https://theawesomer.com/zach-kings-day-off/564656/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Karlston |first=Marmaduke |date=2020-04-04 |title=Down the Tubes: Zach King's Magical Day Off – A Ferris Bueller Parody |url=http://screenagewasteland.com/down-the-tubes-zach-kings-magical-day-off-a-ferris-bueller-parody/ |access-date=2022-11-28 |website=ScreenAge Wasteland |language=en-US |archive-date=November 26, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221126201409/https://screenagewasteland.com/down-the-tubes-zach-kings-magical-day-off-a-ferris-bueller-parody/ |url-status=live }}</ref> 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."<ref>{{cite web |date=October 1, 2020 |first=Scott |last=Stump |title=Watch Alan Ruck revisit iconic 'Ferris Bueller' scene in new ad (ooohhh yeahhh!) |url=https://www.today.com/popculture/watch-alan-ruck-revisit-ferris-bueller-scene-new-ad-t193044 |website=TODAY.com |access-date=2020-12-08 |archive-date=November 8, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201108025706/https://www.today.com/popculture/watch-alan-ruck-revisit-ferris-bueller-scene-new-ad-t193044 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite AV media |date=Sep 28, 2020 |title=LiftMaster Secure View – Oh Yeah! |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVZm0iohf-4 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201003001412/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVZm0iohf-4&gl=US&hl=en| archive-date=2020-10-03 | url-status=dead|publisher=LiftMaster |via=[[YouTube]] |access-date=December 9, 2020}}</ref> ===Music=== 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 (Yello 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 . . .'"<ref>Jonathan Bernstein, ''Pretty in pink: the golden age of teenage movies'' (Macmillan, 1997), [https://books.google.com/books?id=4oa4Owxrl44C&pg=PT215 198] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210504022353/https://books.google.com/books?id=4oa4Owxrl44C&pg=PT215 |date=May 4, 2021 }}</ref> 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 (1987 film)|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.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/yello/chart-history/hsi/ |title=Yello: 'Oh Yeah' |magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]] |access-date=October 15, 2018 |archive-date=October 16, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181016050534/https://www.billboard.com/music/yello/chart-history/hot-100/song/332048 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title= Hot Dance/Disco: 1974–2003|last=Whitburn |first=Joel |author-link=Joel Whitburn |year=2004 |publisher=Record Research |page=285}}</ref> It often became referred to as "the Ferris Bueller song" due to its attachment with the movie.<ref name="Blake">{{cite web |quote=Of its inclusion in the movie, writer and critic Jonathan Berstein claimed its use by John Hughes illustrated the "mouthwatering must-haveness of Cameron's dad's Ferrari. Since then, it has become synonymous with lust." |title=The 20 Most Overused Songs In Movies And TV |first1=Boston |last1=Blake |website=[[Screen Rant]] |date=August 19, 2016 |url=https://screenrant.com/most-overused-songs-in-movies-and-tv/ |access-date=April 17, 2018 |archive-date=April 18, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180418031706/https://screenrant.com/most-overused-songs-in-movies-and-tv/ |url-status=live }}</ref> [[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.<ref name="Letzing">{{cite news |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/oh-yeah-the-song-from-ferris-buellers-day-off-is-catchy-irritating-and-the-origin-of-an-investing-fortune-1485531358 |title=A-HED 'Oh Yeah,' the Song from 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off,' Is Catchy, Irritating and the Origin of an Investing Fortune |quote=The quirky techno tune, which accompanied Ferris's Ferrari escapade and loads of other advertisements and Hollywood comedies, helped create a lucrative investment career for its Swiss co-creator |newspaper=[[The Wall Street Journal]] |first1=John |last1=Letzing |date=January 27, 2017 |location=Zurich |access-date=January 29, 2017 |archive-date=January 29, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170129002630/http://www.wsj.com/articles/oh-yeah-the-song-from-ferris-buellers-day-off-is-catchy-irritating-and-the-origin-of-an-investing-fortune-1485531358 |url-status=live }}</ref> [[File:Paul McCartney black and white 2010.jpg|thumb|upright|While [[Paul McCartney]] admitted that he liked the movie, he personally disliked the "Twist and Shout" sequence for its inclusion of brass instruments.<ref name="Dowlding 1989">{{cite book | last = Dowlding | first = William | title = Beatlesongs | publisher = Simon and Schuster | year = 1989 | isbn = 0-671-68229-6}}</ref>]] 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''".<ref>Roz Kaveney, ''Teen dreams: reading teen film from Heathers to Veronica Mars'' (I.B.Tauris, 2006), [https://books.google.com/books?id=xdByJyQ5zfIC&pg=PA44#PPA45,M1 45] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210504022353/https://books.google.com/books?id=xdByJyQ5zfIC&pg=PA44#PPA45,M1 |date=May 4, 2021 }}</ref> "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!"<ref name="Dowlding 1989" /> 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."<ref name="DVDCommShoot" /> The bands [[Save Ferris]] and [[Rooney (band)|Rooney]] were named in allusion to ''Ferris Bueller's Day Off''.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Eby |first1=Margaret |title=Rock and Roll Baby Names: Over 2,000 Music-Inspired Names, from Alison to Ziggy |publisher=Penguin |year=2012}}</ref> [[Kanye West]] and [[Jay-Z]] mention the character in the song "[[Gotta Have It (song)|Gotta Have It]]" from their collaboration album ''[[Watch the Throne]]''. West raps, "I'ma need a day off, think I'll call Ferris up".<ref>{{Citation |title=JAY-Z & Kanye West – Gotta Have It |url=https://genius.com/Jay-z-and-kanye-west-gotta-have-it-lyrics |access-date=2024-02-18}}</ref> ==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."<ref>Martin Morse Wooster, ''Angry classrooms, vacant minds: what's happened to our high schools?'' (Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy, 1993), 75.</ref> 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."<ref name="books.google.com">Art Silverblatt, ''Genre Studies in Mass Media: A Handbook'' (M.E. Sharpe, 2007), [https://books.google.com/books?id=R7ixUTC8EpwC&pg=PA105 105] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201103212823/https://books.google.com/books?id=R7ixUTC8EpwC&pg=PA105 |date=November 3, 2020 }}</ref> 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."<ref name="books.google.com" /> 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."<ref>Thomas Patrick Doherty, ''Teenagers and Teenpics: The Juvenilization of American Movies in the 1950s'' (Temple University Press, 2002) [https://books.google.com/books?id=mVfrfDACts4C&pg=PA196 196] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210504022406/https://books.google.com/books?id=mVfrfDACts4C&pg=PA196 |date=May 4, 2021 }}</ref> 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."<ref name="books.google.com" /> 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 (film)|Weird Science]]'', Ferris is computer savvy without being a nerd or a geek—it is a skill he has taken the trouble to learn."<ref>Roz Kaveney, ''Teen dreams: reading teen film from Heathers to Veronica Mars'' (I.B.Tauris, 2006) [https://books.google.com/books?id=xdByJyQ5zfIC&pg=PA44#PPA44,M1 44] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210504022405/https://books.google.com/books?id=xdByJyQ5zfIC&pg=PA44#PPA44,M1 |date=May 4, 2021 }}</ref> In 2010, English comedian [[Dan Willis (comedian)|Dan Willis]] performed his show "Ferris Bueller's Way Of..." at the [[Edinburgh Festival Fringe|Edinburgh Festival]], delving into the philosophy of the movie and looking for life answers within.<ref>{{cite web |last=Stubbs |first=Jamie |title=Ferris Buellers Way of REVIEW |url=http://www.gigglebeats.co.uk/2010/08/review-dan-willis-ferris-buellers-way-of-espionage-edinburgh/ |website=Giggle Beats |date=August 12, 2010 |access-date=2 January 2017 |archive-date=January 3, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170103165151/http://www.gigglebeats.co.uk/2010/08/review-dan-willis-ferris-buellers-way-of-espionage-edinburgh/ |url-status=live }}</ref> ==Home media and other releases== {{anchor|DVD|Video}} 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.<ref name="Ferris Saved for Blu-ray">{{cite news | title = Ferris Saved for Blu-ray | date = 2011-06-07 | url = http://bluray.ign.com/articles/117/1173679p1.html | work = IGN | access-date = 2011-06-09 | archive-date = June 11, 2011 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110611173613/http://bluray.ign.com/articles/117/1173679p1.html | url-status = live }}</ref> 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 [[Audio commentary|commentary]] by Hughes. Though this is no longer available for sale, the director's commentary is available.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://screencrush.com/ferris-bueller-audio-commentary/ |title=Long Lost 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' Director's Commentary Resurfaces |date=November 26, 2012 |publisher=Screencrush.com |access-date=2014-07-19 |archive-date=May 13, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140513011606/http://screencrush.com/ferris-bueller-audio-commentary/ |url-status=live }}</ref> 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.<ref name="Ferris Saved for Blu-ray" /> 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 (film)|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 (film)|Police Academy]]'' (1984). 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.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ferris-Buellers-Day-Off-Collection/dp/B07FFGJPTL|title=Ferris Bueller's Day Off – 80s Collection|website=Amazon|year=2018|access-date=February 18, 2019|archive-date=February 19, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190219015814/https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ferris-Buellers-Day-Off-Collection/dp/B07FFGJPTL|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2016 Paramount, [[Turner Classic Movies]], and [[Fathom Events]] [[re-release]]d the film and ''Pretty in Pink'' to celebrate their 30th anniversary.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://fathomevents.com/event/ferris-buellers-day-off/more-info/details| title=Ferris Bueller's Day Off: 30th Anniversary| access-date=February 21, 2016| publisher=[[Fathom Events]]| archive-date=February 11, 2016| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160211175911/http://www.fathomevents.com/event/ferris-buellers-day-off/more-info/details| url-status=live}}</ref> The film was released in [[4K resolution|4K]] to the [[Ultra HD Blu-ray]] format on August 1, 2023. This disc includes John Hughes' commentary track that was first found on the 1999 DVD release.<ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Ferris-Buellers-Day-Off-4K-Blu-ray/339081/| title= Ferris Bueller's Day Off 4K Blu-ray}}</ref> ==Follow-ups== 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," said Broderick in a 2010 interview. "But neither of us found a very exciting hook to that. The movie is about a singular time in your life."<ref name="hughesactors" /> "''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."<ref name="bratpackbook" /> ===Spin-off=== In August 2022, a [[Spinoff (media)|spin-off]] 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.<ref name="Cordero"/> ===Television series=== {{main|Ferris Bueller (TV series)}} In 1990, a television series titled ''[[Ferris Bueller (TV series)|Ferris Bueller]]'' started airing on [[NBC]]. It starred [[Charlie Schlatter]] as Ferris Bueller and [[Jennifer Aniston]] as Jeannie Bueller.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.screenplay.com/downloads/scripts/FerrisBuellersDayOff.pdf |title=Ferris Bueller's Day Off |access-date=February 5, 2018 |archive-date=January 27, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180127052910/http://www.screenplay.com/downloads/scripts/FerrisBuellersDayOff.pdf |url-status=dead}}</ref> 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 (Friends)|Barry Farber]]. Mindy returns in one further episode but was played by another actress. ===Lewis Hamilton=== In March 2025, seven times Formula One Driver's Champion [[Lewis Hamilton]] released a short film, which featured [[Edward Norton]] and Hamilton himself being the role of garage attendants while the leading characters placed the Ferrari car to the garage, then spinning out the car themselves. With the help of Paramount Pictures, Dawn Apollo Films (film production company founded by Hamilton himself) used current technologies to fit both new characters into the actual film footage. Hamilton used this short film to salute his favorite film as a child, and commemorate his first racing season with Ferrari in [[2025 Formula One World Championship|2025]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mR4uDqRzRUM |title=Another dream come true ... |website=[[YouTube]] |date=March 12, 2025 |access-date=March 13, 2025}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist|colwidth=30em}} ==External links== {{Sister project links |wikt=no |commons=Category:Ferris Bueller's Day Off |b=no |n=no |q=Ferris Bueller's Day Off |s=no |v=no |species=no |display=Ferris Bueller's Day Off}} * {{IMDb title|0091042|Ferris Bueller's Day Off}} * {{TCMDb title|4563|Ferris Bueller's Day Off}} * {{AFI film|id=57318|title=Ferris Bueller's Day Off}} * {{mojo title|ferrisbuellersdayoff|Ferris Bueller's Day Off}} * Interviews with [https://texasarchive.org/2015_01511 Matthew Broderick] and [https://texasarchive.org/2013_01955 John Hughes] at the press junket for Ferris Bueller's Day Off at [[Texas Archive of the Moving Image]] {{John Hughes}} {{Chicago Cubs}} {{portal bar|1980s|Chicago|Film|United States}} {{Authority control}} [[Category:1980s teen comedy films]] [[Category:1986 films]] [[Category:American coming-of-age comedy films]] [[Category:American high school films]] [[Category:American teen comedy films]] [[Category:Films about educators]] [[Category:Films adapted into television shows]] [[Category:Films directed by John Hughes (filmmaker)]] [[Category:Films produced by John Hughes (filmmaker)]] [[Category:Films scored by Ira Newborn]] [[Category:Films set in Chicago]] [[Category:Films shot in Chicago]] [[Category:Paramount Pictures films]] [[Category:Films with screenplays by John Hughes (filmmaker)]] [[Category:United States National Film Registry films]] [[Category:1986 comedy films]] [[Category:Films set in art museums and galleries]] [[Category:Chicago Cubs]] [[Category:1980s English-language films]] [[Category:English-language teen comedy films]]
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