2008 Woodie Awards
Just in time for spring: Ferris Bueller takes a day off, again
Michele Brittany
Issue date: 5/5/05 Section: Arts & Entertainment
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"Bueller. Bueller. Bueller. Bueller," said the flat, monotone economics teacher played by Ben Stein. Thus began the ninth day that Ferris Bueller was ditching, this time to provide his tight, diamond producing friend (remember the comment about the coal?), Cameron Frye a good day.
"They bought it!" was Ferris' comment after his parents left his room, believing that he was sick. "How could I possibly be expected to handle school on a day like this?" Indeed, and especially if he were living in the south Puget Sound area where sunshine is a welcome relief from the somber, usually wet weather.
Written and directed by John Hughes, this film was released in 1986 and starred some recognizable, albeit younger faces: Matthew Broderick (Ferris), Jennifer Grey (Jeanie), Jeffrey Jones (Ed Rooney), Edie McClurg (Grace), and even Charlie Sheen (the boy in the police station).
Okay, so Ferris is very popular as Grace, the secretary points out to Ed Rooney, the dean of students. But Ferris is up to missing his ninth day and Rooney is not about to let go of that. He sees Ferris for what he: is a conniving know-it-all senior in high school who is coasting to graduation. Obviously, the Chicago equivalent of the WASL was not even a glimmer in Rooney's eye in 1986. Rooney is man on a mission: find Ferris and prove that he was ditching.
Ferris is idolized and liked by everyone such as the student body of his high school who go on a campaign to collect money for his kidney transplant, the English Department that sends him flowers (not very tasty for the dog though), and so many flowers from the townfolk you would have thought he had died and been elevated to sainthood: Saint Ferris ... hmm, doesn't quite sound right does it?
Ferris talks his best friend Cameron (Alan Ruck, yeah from Spin City - did you know that he was 30 years old at the time he played this role?) and his girlfriend Sloane (Mia Sara) to come along and spend the day in Chicago, in a red 1961 Ferrari 250 GT California (was that a gorgeous automobile or what?).
"They bought it!" was Ferris' comment after his parents left his room, believing that he was sick. "How could I possibly be expected to handle school on a day like this?" Indeed, and especially if he were living in the south Puget Sound area where sunshine is a welcome relief from the somber, usually wet weather.
Written and directed by John Hughes, this film was released in 1986 and starred some recognizable, albeit younger faces: Matthew Broderick (Ferris), Jennifer Grey (Jeanie), Jeffrey Jones (Ed Rooney), Edie McClurg (Grace), and even Charlie Sheen (the boy in the police station).
Okay, so Ferris is very popular as Grace, the secretary points out to Ed Rooney, the dean of students. But Ferris is up to missing his ninth day and Rooney is not about to let go of that. He sees Ferris for what he: is a conniving know-it-all senior in high school who is coasting to graduation. Obviously, the Chicago equivalent of the WASL was not even a glimmer in Rooney's eye in 1986. Rooney is man on a mission: find Ferris and prove that he was ditching.
Ferris is idolized and liked by everyone such as the student body of his high school who go on a campaign to collect money for his kidney transplant, the English Department that sends him flowers (not very tasty for the dog though), and so many flowers from the townfolk you would have thought he had died and been elevated to sainthood: Saint Ferris ... hmm, doesn't quite sound right does it?
Ferris talks his best friend Cameron (Alan Ruck, yeah from Spin City - did you know that he was 30 years old at the time he played this role?) and his girlfriend Sloane (Mia Sara) to come along and spend the day in Chicago, in a red 1961 Ferrari 250 GT California (was that a gorgeous automobile or what?).