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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 lovel
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
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Manufacturer: Paramount Home Entertainment
Release date: 1 February 2010
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 5051368212333
Tags: Faking Illness (1), Principal (1), Parking Garage (1), Sports Car (1), Skipping School (1), Charlie Sheen (1), Paramount (1), Mia Sara (1), Cindy Pickett (1), Jeffrey Jones (1), Wallet (1), Truancy (1), Paramount Pictures (1), Max Perlich (1), Wise Guy (1), Joyride (1), Best Friend (1), Day Off (1), Odometer (1), Hooky (1)
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