It tells the story of a charismatic high school slacker , Ferris, who skips school with his best friend Cameron and his girlfriend Sloane for a day in Chicago , regularly breaking the fourth wall to explain his techniques and inner thoughts.
Hughes wrote the screenplay in less than a week. The film was Hughes's love letter to Chicago: "I really wanted to capture as much of Chicago as I could. Not just in the architecture and landscape, but the spirit. The film received generally positive reviews from critics and audiences alike, who praised Broderick's performance, and the film's humor and tone.
In , the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress , being deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". On a warm and sunny spring day in a Chicago suburb, high school senior Ferris Bueller fakes illness to stay home from school, regularly breaking the fourth wall.
His parents, Katie and Tom, believe he is ill, though his sister, Jeanie, does not. After learning Ferris is absent from school for the ninth time that semester, the school's dean , Edward Rooney, becomes determined to expose Ferris's chronic truancy ; Ferris has changed his attendance records by hacking into the school's computer system, making it appear as if 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.
