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By Chris Snellgrove
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An aging millennial confession: Sometimes I would like to revisit my childhood classic films because they help me feel a little less old. If you are all -child from the 80s who need that kind of longing, one teenage comedy is perfectly perfect. Ferris Bueller’s day off has been added to Netflix, and watched is the next best thing to take a time machine back to your childhood.
Preset Ferris Bueller’s day off Baked right into the title: The teenage titular falsifies illness so that he can take the day off school, and takes two of his friends for the ride. Together, these suburban children enter all sorts of errors throughout Chicago. But thanks to headmaster Snooping, Sister Snitching, and suspicious parents, Ferris is in danger of being bushed wherever he goes.
Great reason why Ferris Bueller’s day off So magical to children from the 80s is that he was written and directed by John Hughes, who directed other teenager classical comedies like Pretty in pink and The breakfast club. And even when he was not directed, Hughes was the author of other legendary films like Only home and National Lampoon’s Christmas holidays. Hughes always had a talent to write young people as charismatic and defective. Fill Ferris Bueller with characters who felt familiar and aspirational immediately.
Those characters are brought to life by a vibrant cast that includes Jennifer Gray, best known for the Beloved romantic comedy Dirty dancing. Ferris Bueller’s day off also stars Jeffrey Jones, best known to genre fans Beetlejuice and Howard the duck. We get particularly amazing performances from Mia Sara (best known for Ferris and for Timecop) and Alan Ruck (best known for Minister and Trek Star: Generations), who play Bueller’s partners in crime as they all gallop around the windy city with youth quitting.
The best performance comes from Matthew Broderick, who plays Ferris Bueller with the kind of Easygoing confidence that many of us would have killed when we were teenagers. In the hands of another actor, Antics Ferris (ranging from monologues that constantly break the fourth wall to bring the show in a city parade) would come across as a boorish or seek attention. But Broderick gives the character a high Everyman status, and Ferris comes across as the kind of friend you either wanted to get or be.
Ferris Bueller’s day off Echoing with young audiences in the ’80s and’ 90s because the title character lives out our wildest dreams. If we were sick, most of us stayed home, watched TV, and (if we were really lucky) had to play some video games or watch some movies. Ferris, however, turned a fake sick day in the ultimate adventure. Fans still live ficeriously through his day off all these decades later.
Will you decide Ferris Bueller’s day off Is the value of skipping work to watch, or is this one iconic film that should have remained in Reagan’s era? The only way to find it is to stream it Netflix Today. This is the ultimate time capsule from the 80s, and it is worth opening to anyone nostalgic for the golden age of teenage comedies.
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