US comedy written and directed by John Hughes. Ferris Bueller (Matthew Broderick) has had enough of his humdrum school life and so, using his immense ingenuity, feigns illness to deceive his parents. He then takes his best friend Cameron (Alan Ruck) and girlfriend Sloane (Mia Sara) with him to spend a day out gallivanting around town. After a series of misadventures, he has to make it home before his head teacher finds out the truth or his sister foils his plans.