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| | Ferris Bueller's Day Off | The A.V. Club |
 | | In that sense, Ferris Bueller may be his most shrewdly calculated fantasy this side of The Breakfast Club: Here, the standard teen hang-ups (clueless and/or hostile parents, worry about the future, hatred of school, etc.) are relieved by a skip day that even Jefferson might have found excessive. |
 | | Instead of spending the day with his stomach in knots, fearful of getting caught, Matthew Broderick's Ferris is something of a teenage superhero: serenely self-confident, always the cleverest guy in the room, and concerned about nothing more than having a good time. |
 | | Ferris Bueller is a touchstone for those who came of age in the '80s, and it holds a certain appeal as Gen X couch-potato comfort foodit's engaging without ever being all that funny. |
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