Plot One spring day in a Chicago suburb, high school senior Ferris Bueller fakes illness to stay home from school, two months before his graduation, regularly breaking the fourth wall to describe his senioritis. His parents, Katie and Tom, believe he is ill, though his sister, Jeanie, does not. After learning Ferris has been absent nine times that semester, the school's dean, Edward Rooney, and his secretary Grace become determined to expose Ferris's chronic truancy; Ferris hacks into the school's computer system and reduces his absence count to two, making it appear that he attends school regularly.
Ferris persuades his hypochondriac best friend Cameron Frye to help excuse Ferris's girlfriend Sloane Peterson from school by claiming that her grandmother has died. Cameron calls the school, pretending to be Sloane's father. Knowing Sloane is dating Ferris, Rooney and Grace are suspicious. Ferris also calls the school during Cameron's phone call to confirm his absence, thereby fooling Rooney into believing he offended Sloane's father. To complete the ruse that Sloane's father is picking her up from school, Ferris borrows the prized possession of Cameron's father, a 1961 Ferrari 250 GT California Spyder. Fearing his father's wrath, Cameron is dismayed when Ferris takes the car on a day trip into Chicago. Ferris promises they will return the car as it was, including preserving the original odometer mileage.
Questions & Comments
Sort By: