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Ferris Bueller's Day Off

August 2023

  • Matthew Broderick

    ‘My legacy? I’m Ferris Bueller’: Matthew Broderick on life, love and opioids

    From storming the West End with his wife Sarah Jessica Parker, to playing the architect of the US opioids crisis in dark new Netflix drama Painkiller – the star is taking a bold new direction

October 2021

  • Alan Ruck at home in Los Angeles.

    The G2 interview
    ‘There was always an excuse to take a drink’: Succession’s Alan Ruck on Ferris Bueller, booze and bouncing back

    After a decades-long slump, the actor’s career came roaring back with the role of Connor Roy. He talks about his 80s success, his ‘attitude problems’ and his excitement about Succession’s new series

March 2020

  • Oh no you don’t! Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard in Brief Encounter.

    Film blog
    From Fight Club to Brief Encounter: how self-isolation would change classic films

    It’s now difficult to watch movies without worrying about the two-metre rule – here are the retrospective plot changes required to mean old movies pass muster

March 2018

  • Ronald And Nancy Reagan Portrait Session<br>LOS ANGELES - 1980: President Ronald Reagan and wife Nancy Reagan poses for a portrait in 1980 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Harry Langdon/Getty Images

    Movie night with the Reagans: War Games, Red Dawn … and Ferris Bueller's Day Off

    The Reagans were film buffs and watched 363 films, mostly on weekends in a ritual that is now the subject of a memoir by a former aide

July 2017

  • 1986, FERRIS BUELLER'S DAY OFF<br>MIA SARA & MATTHEW BRODERICK Character(s): Sloane Peterson, Ferris Bueller Film 'FERRIS BUELLER'S DAY OFF' (1986) Directed By JOHN HUGHES 11 June 1986 CTY96443 Allstar/PARAMOUNT (USA 1986) **WARNING** This Photograph is for editorial use only and is the copyright of PARAMOUNT and/or the Photographer assigned by the Film or Production Company & can only be reproduced by publications in conjunction with the promotion of the above Film. A Mandatory Credit To PARAMOUNT is required. The Photographer should also be credited when known. No commercial use can be granted without written authority from the Film Company.

    Ferris Bueller's daily grind: how poverty in Chicago went suburban

    On the surface, Lake County, Illinois – the setting for John Hughes’ 1980s films of affluent suburban angst – is all detached houses, swimming pools and malls. Hidden from view, though, is the growing need

September 2016

  • Hadley Freeman

    Hadley Freeman's Weekend column
    Is Channing Tatum in a fish tail the feminist dream realised? The jury’s out

    Hadley Freeman
    The current passion for 1980s films reflects what we lack today: films back then were made for adults, not just teenage boys

May 2015

  • hadley freeman holding a watermelon

    Hadley Freeman: why I owe it all to 1980s movies

    What can Ghostbusters and Dirty Dancing teach you about life? Everything – from the joy of sex to the importance of Bill Murray (plus how to carry a watermelon). Here’s what I learned from three 1980s classics

December 2014

  • Jeff Bridges as The Dude

    Ferris Bueller and The Dude enter the US National Film Registry

    Rosemary’s Baby, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Saving Private Ryan and 22 others in the 2014 intake for works deemed “culturally, historically or aesthetically” significant

January 2011

  • The Rose House and Pavilion, Chicago

    Shortcuts
    The house from Ferris Bueller's Day Off is for sale

    Would it be worth the money just to recreate the classic car crash scene?

7 August 2009

  • Breakfast Club director John Hughes: 'He had a massive impact on cinema'

  • John Candy, John Hughes and Steve Martin

    Steve Martin, Molly Ringwald and Matthew Broderick lead tributes to director John Hughes

  • John Hughes

    Film blog
    John Hughes – a career in clips, from The Breakfast Club and Ferris Bueller to Curly Sue

  • The Breakfast Club in 1985 featured Anthony Michael Hall, Molly Ringwald, Ally Sheedy Emilio Estevez and Judd Nelson. The film was about five teens who spend a Saturday together in detention at their high school

    The films of John Hughes

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