Ferris Bueller's Day Off is a 1986 American teen coming-of-age comedy film written and directed by John Hughes. The film follows high school senior Ferris Bueller (Matthew Broderick), who decides to skip school and spend the day in downtown Chicago. Accompanied by his girlfriend Sloane Peterson (Mia Sara) and his best friend Cameron Frye (Alan Ruck), he creatively avoids his school's Dean of Students Edward Rooney (Jeffrey Jones), his...
After hanging up from Cameron, Ferris looks back at the camera and tells us a...
In the Bueller home Jeanie and Rooney both hear each other on the opposite si...
Rooney enters the local burger joint expecting to find Ferris hanging out. Wh...
On the way home Jeanie almost runs over Ferris, who's trying to get home befo...
When Cameron, Ferris and Sloane drive off the two garage attendants comment o...
After knocking out Rooney, Jeanie runs up to her bedroom and calls the police.
After their meal Ferris, Cameron and Sloane go to the Cubs game.
Ferris kicks and insults Cameron while he's on the phone with Rooney.
On his way home Ferris cuts through different peoples yards. He runs past a c...
After Ferris' dramatic display, Jeanie gives him the finger on the sly. He wi...
Jeanie has a problem getting any assistance when she phones the police.
Ed Rooney is in a pizza shop and asks the pizza guy who is winning the game a...
Standing in the doorway of Cameron's father's garage, Ferris shows no concern...
Jeanie protest her parents allowing Ferris the day off.
The scene changes from Cameron laying in bed singing Go Down Moses back to Fe...
While Jeanie is on the phone with the police Rooney's car is being towed.
Ferris is deaf to Cameron's pleadings. He has his mind set on driving Cameron...
Kate and Tom talk in front of the house. Ferris has just arrived at the back ...
Just as Ed Rooney is on the phone with Mrs. Bueller, Ferris hacks in two his ...
Bloodied, bruised, bitten and banged up, Rooney runs out of the Bueller home ...
Ferris proves completely insensitive to Cameron's concerns for preserving his...
At his back door Ferris looks up to see Rooney standing there with Ferris's k...
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