Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986)
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A high school slacker pretends to be sick to skip school and have an exciting day off alongside his girlfriend and his best buddy through Chicago, while trying to outwit his obsessive school principal and his unconformited sister along the way.
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100
Time
Ferris and his adventures represent a teen's dream of glory: to have, at one's fingertips, the technical skills to sabotage the adult world's machinery of oppression and, at the tip of one's tongue, the perfect squelch for grownups' moralistic blather. [23 June 1986]
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When people think fondly of John Hughes, it's movies like Ferris Bueller that they're thinking of.
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The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
This is the funniest teen movie I've seen in eons.
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Film Threat
This is John Hughes' best teen film, and it's a call to arms to everyone in the world who doesn't want to follow society's lame-ass rules at the expense of living a cool life.
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Chicago Sun-Times
The film's heart is in the right place, and Ferris Bueller is slight, whimsical and sweet.
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