Ferris Bueller's Day Off Page #3

Synopsis: Ferris Bueller is a clever and tricky fast talker, a legend in his own time. He decides to call out sick from school, feigning illness, to embark on a wild adventure involving his girlfriend, Sloane Peterson, his best friend Cameron Frye, and a Ferrari. From Wrigley Field to the Art Institute of Chicago to a Polish Pride parade, Bueller and friends intend on making the most of their day off. However, Ferris' sister and the school dean, Ed Rooney, suspect that Ferris is simply pretending to be ill. Both Rooney and Ferris' sister Jeanie are hot on Ferris' trail and are determined to catch him and his friends in the act of class-cutting.
Genre: Comedy
Production: Paramount Pictures
  Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 1 win.
 
IMDB:
7.8
Metacritic:
61
Rotten Tomatoes:
79%
PG-13
Year:
1986
103 min
1,272 Views


He opens a linen closet and tosses the towel in it.

FERRIS:

I could be the Walrus and I'd still

have to bum rides off people.

He passes CAMERA and goes into his room.

FERRIS (OC)

I'm not very political? Let me

put that into perspective...

14 INT. BEDROOM 14

Ferris tosses the towel he's dried hair with on the bed.

FERRIS:

My uncle went to Canada to protest

the war, right? On the Fourth of

July he was down with my aunt and he

got drunk and told my Dad he felt

guilty he didn't fight in Viet Nam.

So I said, "What's the deal, Uncle

Jeff? In wartime you want to be a

pacifist and in peacetime you want

to be a soldier. It took you twenty

years to find out you don't believe

in anything?"

(snaps his fingers)

Grounded. Just like that. Two weeks.

(pause)

Be careful when you deal with old

hippies. They can be real touchy.

He opens his door.

15 INT. CLOSET15

The door opens and Ferris rifles through his shirts.

FERRIS:

My mother was a hippie. But she

lost it. She got old. If she listens

to the White Album now? She doesn't hear

music, she hears memories. Nostalgia is

her favorite drug. It'll probably be

mine, too. I hope not.

He finds a shirt he likes. He steps back from the closet and

puts it on. He drops the towel.

16 INT. BEDROOM 16

He walks across the room to his dresser. He opens his

underwear drawer. There's an old model of a submarine on the

top of the dresser. He picks it up.

FERRIS:

In eighth grade a friend of mine

made a bong out of one of these.

The smoke tasted like glue.

He pulls out a pair of underwear. He gets dressed as he

speaks.

FERRIS:

His name is Garth Volbeck. He's a

serious outsider. Not a bad guy, I

like him. I'm probably his only friend.

I do what I can for him. I mean, if

I was him, I'd appreciate it. Do unto others,

right? Anyway, his mother owns a gas station.

His father's dead and his sister's rumored

to be a prostitute, which is complete bullshit.

She only puts out so people will hang out

with her. It's sad but I don't hold it

against her. Better to hold it against the

guys who use her and don't care about her.

(pause)

My parents never allowed Garth over here.

It was because of his family. Mainly his

older brother. He's in jail. I could see them

not wanting his brother here because he is

a registered psycho. I wouldn't want him here.

I once watched the guy eat a whole bowl of

artificial fruit just so he could see what

it was like to have his stomach pumped.

But Garth isn't his brother. It isn't his fault

that his brother's screwed-up. Alot of fights

with the parents on that point. I always felt

for Garth. I was sleeping at his house once

and I was laying on the dark worrying that

his brother was going to come in and hack me

to death with an ax and I heard Garth crying.

I asked him what was wrong and he said, "Nothing".

... Nothing was wrong. There was no

specific thing he was crying about.

In fact, he wasn't really even aware that

he was crying. He just cried himself to

sleep every night. It was a habit. The

guy's so conditioned to grief that if

he doesn't feel it, he can't sleep. How

could you possibly dump on guy who has to

deal with that kinda sh*t? My parents

acknowledge the trudge of the situation

and I'm sure that deep down, they do feel

for him but still the guy's banned from

our house.

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An American filmmaker. Beginning as an author of humorous essays and stories for National Lampoon, he went on to write, produce and sometimes direct some of the most successful live-action comedy films of the 1980s and 1990s. Most of Hughes's work is set in the Chicago metropolitan area. He is best known for his coming-of-age teen comedy films which often combined magic realism with honest depictions of suburban teenage life. more…

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