Ferris Bueller's Day Off Themes

Not to get all Latin on you or anything, but the notion of carpe diem is central to Ferris Bueller's Day Off. The movie is all about making choices and taking chances—you know, seizing the day. T...

Cameron is a walking, talking ball of anxiety (until he has an emotional breakdown and neither walks nor talks, that is). And who can blame him? His parents are remote—specifically his dad, who t...

Ferris is a high school rebel, and Sloane's the Bonnie to his Clyde. (You know, minus all of the murder and robbery.) To the two of them, "gym class looks like forced recreation in the prison yard,...

Let's be real: The adults in this movie are chumps. Ferris and Jeanie's parents, Rooney, Grace, the Chez Quis maître d'—they're all just dimwitted speed bumps on Ferris, Cameron, and Sloane's ro...