Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, classic, endlessly quotable, and full of fun, stands as one of the best teen comedy movies of the 1980s. For me, it was always what a day of skipping school should have been but never was.
Matthew Broderick’s Ferris is the kind of character who would be insufferable to meet today, but he pulls it off with charm. The heart of the movie, though, is Cameron (Alan Ruck), whose existential crisis plays out alongside Ferris’s carefree…