Ferris Bueller's Day Off
19861h 43mU/A · CBFCPG-13 · MPAA
Directed by John Hughes · Starring Matthew Broderick & Alan Ruck
83%Rotten Tomatoes7.8IMDb61Metacritic
A high-school senior fakes an illness to skip school and spend a perfect day in Chicago with his girlfriend and best friend, while his suspicious principal tries to catch him.
FamilyComedy
— Critical consensus, summarised
John Hughes at his most effortlessly charming — a teen day-out fantasy that critics enjoyed and that has become a cultural reference. The Ferris Bueller fourth-wall asides and the Cameron-pool sequence are unimprovable.
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