Ferris Bueller's Day Off / Planes, Trains And Automobiles (Double Pack) (DVD)

Advantages: very funny and good storyline
Disadvantages: wish the film was longer

...convince his parents that he is far too ill to go to school, using pre-recorded coughing and sneezing sounds to fool them and producing an enormously high reading when he takes his temperature, again a fraud. Once he has done this he hoes about planning how to spend his day off. He contacts his best friend Cameron (Alan Ruck), who ironically is genuinely ill and can barely pull himself out of bed and somehow convinces him into taking his dads Ferrari out for the day - they think they will be able to wipe any miles they clock up during the day by returning home in the car in reverse gear, very odd! Then comes one of the funniest parts of the film, pretending to be his girlfriends father Ferris contacts Mr Edward Rooney and orders that Sloane (Ferris's girlfriend - Mia Sara) be released from school immediately due to a family problem. He arrives... Read review

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Advantages: Great fun. A real 80s classic
Disadvantages: None

...It is the mid-eighties, and in a wealthy suburb of Chicago, high school senior Ferris Bueller decides he wants to squeeze out one last day off school, knowing that if he gets caught he will not be allowed to graduate. Ferris is not just any regular high school student. He is a clever, self-confident young man who has managed to achieve that most elusive of status - that of pan-popularity, being truly liked by every faction of his high school crowd - and who also has the ability to generally find a way to get what he wants. He successfully dupes his parents into believing he is ill in order to stay at home, much to the frustration of his sister Jeanie who sees through his act. Once home alone, he gets his best friend Cameron to snap out of his prostrated state of miserable hypocondria and join him in his plan to skip school... Read review

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Advantages: Really good film, lots of decent extras
Disadvantages: cheesy 80s soundtrack (for some that will be advantage!)

...What a film. How does John Hughes manage to write such classic films (writer of planes, trains and automobiles, Uncle Buck etc). Legend has it that this was written in a measly six days though it would take a braver man than me to suggest how good it would have been if he had spent a week! The film itself follows a more popular than god like figure in Ferris Bueller (Matthew Broderick) who decides that the day is much too nice to go to school so decides to have the 'day off'. His parents whom thinks the sun shines out of his backside are conned into the illness story though his sister (Jenifer Grey of Dirty Dancing Fame) see's right through this. I must admit when I read the story on the back of the DVD it didnt slap warning signs of 'classic' in my head but watching the film it shows all the true crudentials of a John Hughes... Read review

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