Ferris Bueller's Day Off was the fourth teen movie that John Hughes directed in three years. It was also the last teen movie that he would ever direct. Cue the ominous music.Okay, not that ominous....

John Hughes started the screenplay for Ferris Bueller's Day Off on February 25th, 1985. On March 3rd, the script was finished (source). Suddenly that eight-to-ten page research paper you have for y...

Paramount Pictures knows a thing or two about successful movie franchises. The Godfather, Transformers, Mission: Impossible, Paranormal Activity, Indiana Jones—these are all Paramount productions...

Writer-director John Hughes is famous for setting his films in Chicago, but Ferris Bueller's Day Off is the most Chicagoan of them all. It's the cinematic equivalent of Michael Jordan dressed as a...

Can we be blunt? Nobody remembers the instrumental score for Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Why? Because this is a John Hughes movie, dude. From the '80s. And John Hughes's '80s movies are legendary for...

There have been 37,258 teen comedies released since Ferris Bueller's Day Off first hit movie theatres in 1986.Okay, maybe it just feels like there have been that many. So let's be real: Tales of hi...