Who hasn't known someone like Ferris Bueller (Broderick)? Someone who always has a plan, someone who made loafing off an art form, someone who could fall in a barrel of you-know-what and come out smelling like a rose? All he wants to do is take a day off from school and enjoy the day in Chicago - simple enough, but he must also try and convince his best friend Cameron (Ruck) and his best girl (Sara) to join him and, in the process, learn to enjoy what life has to offer. And with 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off', he creates a person and a time in life that just about anyone who's ever been a teenager can relate to.
He wrote eloquently of it in 'Sixteen Candles', 'The Breakfast Club' and 'Pretty in Pink'. Before all the slapstick, before re-writing 'Home Alone' umpteen times and before selling his soul to 'Disney Pictures Inc.', John Hughes was believed to be THE scribe for teen angst.
