Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Comedy

Matthew Broderick	Ferris Bueller
Alan Ruck	Cameron Frye
Mia Sara	Sloane Peterson
Jeffrey Jones	Edward R. 'Ed' Rooney, Dean of Students
Jennifer Grey	Jean 'Jeanie' Bueller
Cindy Pickett	Katie Bueller
Lyman Ward	Tom Bueller
Edie McClurg	Grace, School Secretary
Charlie Sheen	Boy in Police Station
Ben Stein	Economics Teacher
Lisa Bellard
Virginia Capers
Del Close
Scott Coffey
Richard Edson
Larry Flash Jenkins

Director	John Hughes
Producer	Michael Chinich; John Hughes
Writer	John Hughes

Like a soda pop left open all night, Bueller seems to have lost its effervescence over time. Sure, Matthew Broderick is still appealing as the perennial truant, Ferris, who fakes his parents out and takes one memorable day off from school. Jeffrey Jones is nasty and scheming as the principal who's out to catch him. Jennifer Grey is winning as Ferris's sister (who ends up making out in the police station with a prophetic vision of Charlie Sheen). But there's a definite sense that this film was of a particular time frame: the '80s. It's still fun, though. There's Ferris singing "Twist and Shout" during a Chicago parade, and a lovely sequence in the Art Institute. But don't get it and expect your kids to love it the way you did. Like it or not, it's yours alone. --Keith Simanton