Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2257 in DVD
• Released on: 2000-07-31
• Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
• Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Anamorphic, Dubbed, PAL, Widescreen
• Original language: English, French
• Subtitled in: English, German, French, Portuguese, Swedish, Turkish, Danish, Icelandic, Dutch, Finnish, Croatian, Bulgarian
• Dubbed in: German, Italian, Spanish
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 99 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
Like a soda pop left open all night, Ferris Bueller's Day Off seems to have lost its effervescence over time. Sure, Matthew Broderick is still appealing as the perennial truant, Ferris, who 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' 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, Amazon.com

Special Features
2.35 Anamorphic Wide Screen
DVD 9
French\German\Italian\Spanish
English
English
Region 2
Dolby Digital 5.1 English French\Dolby Digital Surround German Italian Spanish
Dolby Digital 5.1
Dolby Digital Surround
Commentary Track With John Hughes
Bulgarian\Croatian\Danish\Dutch\Finnish\French\German\Icelandic\Norwegian\Portuguese\Swedish\Turkish

Synopsis
Ferris Bueller (Matthew Broderick) is a tricky but harmless fast-talker. But he knows how to have fun, which is exactly what he sets out to do when he feigns illness and talks his parents into letting him stay home from school. The perpetually lucky Ferris enlists his hypochondriac best friend, Cameron Frye (Alan Ruck), into springing his girlfriend, Sloane Peterson (Mia Sara), from class, and the three embark on a raucous downtown Chicago adventure. From Wrigley Field to the Art Institute of Chicago to a Polish pride parade, Ferris and his friends make the most of their day off. But Ferris, Sloane, and Cameron might not get away with playing hooky. Ferris's sister, Jeanie (Jennifer Grey), is determined to prove that Ferris is faking sick and make him pay for it, and the bumbling school dean, Ed Rooney (Jeffrey Jones), is sure that Ferris is pulling a fast one. Another classic from writer-director John Hughes (SIXTEEN CANDLES, THE BREAKFAST CLUB), this film features a star turn from Broderick as the charismatic Ferris. Watch for Charlie Sheen as the juvenile delinquent in the police station and comedian Louie Anderson in a brief appearance as a flower deliveryman.
Conniving Shermer, Ill. high school student Bueller spends his ninth school absence in the company of his kvetchy best friend Cameron and girlfriend Sloane, tearing through downtown Chicago on a mad quest for fun. The ruse seems perfect, right down to Cameron's dad's "borrowed" Ferrari, but Ferris' nemesis, high school principal Ed Rooney, is determined to bring the truants to justice.

Customer Reviews

Too cool for school!
A classic 80s comedy, and a film very close to my heart. I was at the right age to appreciate it when it was first released, and its been a constant companion ever since. What boy wouldn't want to be Ferris Bueller after watching this?! He takes everything to the extreme, and somehow manages to get away with it.

A brilliantly funny film, with an amzing soundtrack - whats not to like?

the best teenage comedy, Ferris rules!
Matthew Broderick (war games) stars as Ferris Bueller, a cocky teenager who doesn't want to go to school on a day when the sun is shining and there is so much to explore, and this ideology, I believe, is something that is hidden in all of us.

How many of us wake up in the morning and think, ah the hell with it, I'm skipping school/work today and going exploring, to see sights and enjoy myself! It is something with its consequences, but with so many more personal benefits. Both are explored in a comedy fashion by John Hughes in my personal favourite teenage comedy.

Undoubtedly there are problems when skipping the day of the normal routine, whether that's your jealous sister (Grey) or a paranoid teacher (Jones) and these supporting characters lend such good support and humour to the tale of this mischievous kid.

But what about the benefits? Well not sitting in class, seeing the world and spending time with those you love what more could you want? It is the true meaning of freedom, and the unfortunate boundaries that we have to live in sometimes, and this wouldn't have been justified without such a great central protagonist.

The opening shot of Ferris in the bed pretending to be sick and his parents buying it is funny, and later when he starts addressing the camera, invites us into his world of crazy ideas, intelligence and sophistication, beautifully portrayed by Broderick.

The comedy is great, with a lot of slapstick humour and smart timings and insults thrown in for good merit.

A lot of comedies tend to have a real soppy predictable and clichéd ending and though this 1986 comedy does tail off towards the end there is no soppy romantic clichés and a great showdown to be admired.

Teenage comedy mean girls is run by stereotypes, Ferris Bueller's Day Off is run by a stereotype, but a classic one who we can all relate to, and who we should all take a lesson from.

8/10

Pass the remote
I've been watching a number of John Hughes movies ever since I saw The Breakfast Club a few months back. Whilst that was a classic, this movie is anything but.
It is ruined by the most annoying main character/actor I've ever seen. I spent the entire movie looking round the room for things I could throw at the tv and hope to hit 'Ferris Bueller'.
My only remorse came from knowledge of previous movies where such an annoyance either dies, suffers an unfortunate setback or dies.

Sadly none of these things happen and I'm left wishing I'd never seen the classic Breakfast club so I wouldn't have had to watch this.