Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986) -🤯📼First Time Film Club📼🤯 - First Time Watching/Reaction/Review
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Matthew's look to camera when Emily says that Jeffery Jones plays a creep so well is one of his best.
Right!
100%. Iykyk.
Method actor.
🤣
I made the same face.
This movie was a big part of the life of those of us that were teens in the ‘80s.
And us preteens I was about 11 when this came out
Chick-a-chickahhhh.
@@butt5326 Mee too, 11 as well, still adore this movie
@@butt5326I was 8, and when I was old enough to get it, I loved it. :D
@4:35 Nice callback to Matthew hacking into the school’s computer in WarGames.
This whole day was for Cameron! We was heavily depressed and Ferris knew it! Best friend ever! Saved his life!
The significance of Cameron focusing on Georges Seurat's "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte" at the Art Institute of Chicago became clear to me only decades after first seeing this film in the 80s as a teen. The little girl in the white dress is in the center of the painting, not in shadow, and she is the only figure facing the viewer in a painting described [by Artnet] as depicting the "double-edged sword of social spectacle and isolation". She is seeing, perhaps questioning, the viewer and conversely being seen by the viewer, while unnoticed by the people filling the painting. It's not difficult to imagine how this might resonate with Cameron existentially.
Another piece of Bueller trivia is that John Hughes never released an official movie soundtrack and it had long been sought after by fans. A limited edition (5,000 units) soundtrack was released in 2016 on the 30th anniversary of the film's release by La-La Land Records, a production company specializing in soundtracks. I'm a very ecstatic owner of one of these, which comes with a thick booklet full of information and commentary about the music in the film!
But the instrumental of "Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want" still isn't on it, is it? I had to get the Dream Academy's greatest hits retrospective album to get the instrumental of "Power to Believe."
Fascinating.
I have it :) - and a few bootlegs I have acquired over the years.
"I love her!" X2
Edie McLurg is my favorite part of Act 1. She's so adorable, whether pulling pens out of her hair, listing all the social groups, or reminding Mr Rooney about his health problems 🤣🤣🤣
*Ferris Bueller’s on Line 2* 🤣🤪😂
Ed!! You sounded like Dirty Harry just then
She’s funny in Planes,trains and….. I forget but she’s funny
She's fantastic. She was a regular on Letterman's morning show.
She was also great in WKRP.
4:23 The look on Matthew's face after "God, he plays creepy so well..." 😅
Ferris did it all for Cameron.
He held Sloane back so Cameron could continue to vent. And when it did go too far, he offered to take the blame.
There is now a large group of Ferris haters, but it's quite obvious in some moments that he is a typical immature teen boy who doesn't really grasp the consequences of some of his actions. When the car gets wrecked it's a wake up call. Also, Ferris is impulsive and outgoing to a fault, while Cameron is anxious and reserved to a fault. Ultimately they balance each other out.
Well, her reaction to jenny in Forrest Gump shows that she is not the brightest candle on the cake
My favorite trivia fact about this movie: The actors who played Ferris Bueller's parents fell in love on the set, and got married later. They had 3 children, divorced in 1992, and don't seem to have re-married after that.
I like to think of Election as the sequel. Ferris grows up, becomes a high school teacher himself, and then has to pay back all of the karma he earned.
My friend and I always had an idea for a sequel to this done currently where Ferris ended up becoming a mindless corporate drone, and Cameron became a self-help Guru. and it ends up being the opposite where Cameron has to help Ferris rediscover his joy and reconnect with Sloan and stuff.
That's actually brilliant. I would 100% watch that movie!
@@derekhiemforth Can't you just watch Cobra Kai?
@@fs127funny.. The creators of that series are currently writing a spin off of this film. Lol
Ben Stein had a comedic quizshow on Comedy Central called "Win Ben Stein's Money" that I had a good time with.
I actually played along at home with that show. Good times. Almost as much fun as Where In World Is Carmen Sandiego game show on PBS
23:57 Back in the 60s, reversing to take miles off the odometer could still work with a lot of cars, so the idea isn't as crazy as it seems today. The "Ferrari" (it's actually a kit car they used, and not the real deal which would probably have cost somewhere around the entire budget of the movie, if not more) is meant to be 1961, which makes Ferris' idea a solid one.
The girl on the school payphone at the 05:43 mark is my high school classmate, Kristin…it was our Senior year in Chicago…and much of the Chicago stuff was filmed near us. She had quite a memorable Senior year 👍🏻
John Hughes had originally cast actress Kristie Swanson for that part…but due to a change in the shooting schedule, my classmate got the phone scene.
Hughes then wrote the “Simone” scene 03:30 to make it up to Swanson.
That’s cool. Also, Sarah Michelle Gellar (who is about 8 years younger than Swanson) would have still been too young to take over that role. 😉
I was in high school when this came out, so it's like a national treasure to my generation, and I can quote most every line, word for word. I loved your reactions to this! Also, on a side note, I just have to say that Pippin is just too adorable! I always get a kick watching him in your reactions. You guys are awesome!!
No, you can't quote most every line, word for word. Stop trying to impress people with your lies.
- Alan Ruck (Cameron) and Matthew Broderick (Ferris) were already good friends before the film. In fact, Matthew encouraged Alan to audition for Cameron. Their friendship goes back to the Broadway production of Neil Simon's play, Biloxi Blues. And when Ruck is "Mr. Peterson" on phone, he was actually doing his impression of the director of Biloxi Blues, Gene Saks.
- John Hughes said that he had written Ferris for Matthew Broderick, but the role was also offered to Anthony Michael Hall, who had done several Hughes films (Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles, Weird Science, and National Lampoon's Vacation). He turned it down due to other commitments.
- Molly Rigwald wanted to play Sloane, but Hughes said that the role was too small for her.
- Mia Sara, who played Sloane was 18 when it was filmed, and her only other screen credit at the time was Ridley Scott's fantasy film Legend, which had tanked at the box office even though it starred Tom Cruise, and a heavily made-up Tim Curry.
- Jeffery Jones, who played Ed Rooney, got the role after playing Emperor Joseph II of Austria in 'Amadeus', and Hughes told Jones that he'd be known for Ed Rooney for the rest of his life, and he is..among...other...things...😬
The parade in the movie, was an actual parade happening in real life.
Filming for the scene took place over two Saturdays. On the first, director John Hughes used the fact that there was areal parade happening to his advantage. Hughes was able to take long, genuine shots of the celebration to establish authenticity.
Construction workers and window washers can be spotted jamming out to Matthew Broderick's lip-synced rendition of "Twist and Shout." These were not choreographed dancers or extras hired to play a part - instead, they were just people going about their everyday jobs. When they noticed the parade and heard the music, they joined in with everyone else
In the DVD commentary Hughes talks about how even the event organizers didn't realize what the filmmakers were doing. He said, "It was an actual parade which we put our float into - unbeknownst to really anybody. Nobody knew what it was."
The parade was the annual Von Steuben Day Parade
I always thought Ferris's redeemable quality IS that Cameron is his best friend
Actually, I don't think Ferris needs a redeemable quality because he's actually a good guy. He seems to help everyone who asks no matter who they are and I suspect he doesn't ask much of anything in return. That's why "... they all adore him. They think he's a righteous dude."
@@mikeroman5208 oh I like Ferris as I'm an 80's baby but I can see why some dislike him.
I love how she pronounces it doood 😂
"When Cameron was in Egypt land...let my Cameron go?!"
That and the whole thing with Cam getting into a rage in his car about going to see Ferris are just the best. LOL
Oh my gosh...Em is a Cameronite too...just like ME! 😂
Taking a shot in the dark here, but do you know what the song was that was playing when Cameron said that? I have been trying to find out the name of that track (and/or the artist who performed it) ever since this movie came out.
@@IggyStardust1967 Unfortunately it's not a song, but it is referencing a real song called "Go Down Moses" by Louis Armstrong just with different lyrics.
@@King-Omega- It was a hymn before that...called When Israel was in Egypt's land...I believe. 👍
@@King-Omega- Okay, that put me on the right track, I think. So, thank you for that. The music playing in the background is mainly what I was looking for. I did know that the words he said weren't the actual song (or, honestly, highly suspected it). The Louis Armstrong version obviously isn't done with synths... but I really dig synth music. Still, I looked that up, and it might end up in my music library somewhere. I like Armstrong, I just hadn't heard that before.
My personal fave fact, "Twist and shout" got back on to the top 100 music chart after this came out. (26th or 23rd as I recall.)
The both by The Isley Brothers and The Beatles.
Matthew made his start on Broadway- one of his first roles was in Harvey Fierstein's 'Torch Song Trilogy'. When they made the movie 6 years later, Matthew was a big star, but agreed to play a role in it. In the Broadway run, he played the son, in the film, he played the boyfriend. A good film from a great (Best Play Tony) play- check it out- also includes Anne Bancroft.
“He plays a creep so well.”
No one:
Not one soul:
“There ain’t no playing in it.”
The funny thing about the driving backwards bit is that (from what I've read) it would have actually worked on it's original odometer. So Cameron's dad must've gotten the odometer replaced with a new one that doesn't do that(or bought it that way).
True older cars had mechanical odometers that would reverse.
Then anyone could roll back odometer to sell fraudulently
@@chrischar9428 yeah, that's why they stopped making them that way, basically.
@@inarar5334 but not what you said
@@chrischar9428up to (I think) the mid to late 70s, you could take a drill and attach it to the odometer cable, run it in reverse. Sleazy car dealerships were notorious for it
The school was John Hughes real school, and he declared he was (of course) more Cameron than Ferris...
The Sears Tower I will never call it the Willis Tower has an addition to the viewing deck. The feature is called the tilt. Part of the glass and wall tilt out past the building. I
Don't look now, but you just did. 😉
What you talkin' 'bout, Willis?
@@Hexon66 you got me.
I now call it the Hodor Tower
Thumbs up for continuing to call it The Sears Tower. I can't stand behind Wilis. Those tilt glass windows are at the Hancock 360 Observation deck. The Sears Skydeck has glass boxes that extend out of the face of the building.
this movie is healing to me. i never really "got it" as a teenager until i watched it as an adult, and through the lens of cameron being the main character our story circles around. it completely changed how i see the movie and i find it being a comfort of mine when i have a bad day or feel down.
"Reel Genius." Nice. BTW, you can find a T-Shirt with an image of a Socrates' bust with the quote, "I drank what?"
My first celebrity crush was on Matthew Broderick from this movie!!! Well, technically it was on the animated fox Robin Hood, but first HUMAN movie crush is right here lol
Films I own that were either directed or written by John Hughes: Mr. Mom, Vacation, Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, Weird Science, Pretty in Pink, Some Kind of Wonderful, Planes Trains & Automobiles, She’s Having a Baby, The Great Outdoors, Uncle Buck, Christmas Vacation, Home Alone, Career Opportunities, Dutch, Curly Sue, Beethoven, and Home Alone 2 Lost in New York. I hope you two can watch another one you haven’t seen in the future.
2024 audiences wouldn't understand, but borrowing Dad's car was a standard 80s teen comedy trope. It was basically the riskiest thing that high school kids could do.
A lot of the Savage Steve flicks of the 80s did similar stuff to what Ferris did post-credits, but written out. I think most all his comedies had little slips in between the credits telling folks they'd be almost home if they'd already left, or saying the line for the bathroom's probably not that long anymore. Then the very last thing would say "The film's over. You can go home now."
I had a friend just like Ferris. We went to Chicago and ended up in the middle of the St. Patrick's day parade. We actually got the crowd singing Twist and Shout on a float.
“I just know how much money that car is, that’s where my brain is like, I just can’t suspend that disbelief.”
Ready to suspend your disbelief? The last, real, Ferrari 250 GT California Spider to sell at auction sold for $18.045 million.
$18 million.
Even in not as great, but still restorable condition, we’re still talking about millions on the price tag.
"...so are you rooting for Rooney at this point?" 😂😂😂
One trivia note that wasn't mentioned is that there IS a semi-sequel to this movie coming. It's about the two guys who took the ferrari for a drive from the garage
The house I grew up in had a dog door in the back, but I couldn't get more than my arm and shoulder through it. However, there were few times that I got locked out and was able to use a putter to flip the deadbolt to get in.
The actors who played Feris' parents (Cindy Pickett and Lyman Ward) met on the set during filming of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, got married and had 2 kids. So their chemistry in the movie is actually real
But sadly, as usual in Hollywood - unfortunately got divorced 6 years later.
Cindy Pickett one of my favorite actresses and crushes since the early 80s. Lyman Ward is one of my favorite actors they should watch him in 1991's The Taking Of Beverly Hills with Ken Wahl, Max Headroom himself Matt Frewer, Robert Davi from The Goonies, Action Jackson, Die Hard, and the late Tony Ganios from The Wanderers, the Porky's Trilogy and Die Hard 2.
1. Alan Ruck was 29 when filming.
2. Charlie Sheen didn't sleep for 48 hours prior to his scene to get into character,
3. Ah, the days when MTV played videos.
4. IRL Broadrick and Grey had a thing going during the shoot.
5. Not pealing out in front of Rooney would have stopped him from going after Ferris.
6. They have a doggie door, odds are they have a dog. DA
7. This was John Hughes' ode to his hometown of Chicago. 😇John Hughes.
8. I'm not in line to be his "best friend" because I wouldn't let him walk all over and/or Bull$hit me.
9. GOOF: It's awfully late in the day to have a full bus load of kids.
10. That same school was also used for "Uncle Buck" and "The Breakfast Club".
Worth noting that both Broderick and Grey were also in their 20s at the time. Mia Sara was the only actual teenager in the main cast.
@@0okamino They were concerned about Ruck's age as a high school kid.
I died when Matthew was strugglin to get it out that he can see Rooneys POV now 🤣🤣
We used to watch movies listen to music outside on a pasture bluff overlooking the Platte River. Friend had an old bus parked out there we'd graffiti. We'd put the generator on the other side of the bus to dampen the noise, and sit on couches around a fire pit. That was the place I saw a lot of movies from this period and earlier for the first time out there. Ferris Bueller was one of them. Night of the living dead was another.
17:23 Ditto, Emily! As always, so many comments you made throughout this movie show just how much of a kindred spirit you are. Great reaction, you three! 💜🩵💛
Emily, loving the Starfighter shirt! Y’all are one of the few reactors I follow to have reacted to that masterpiece.
"You didn't expect a dance number! Fool!" - got me. I'm dying! Now I want a movie where that is an actual line! :D
This is my dad's favorite movie. The only other movie I can say he might like more is Ridgemont High. I have a lot of fond memories watching this when I had a day off from school myself because I was sick, or for some other reason. Watching it again, now, as an adult I find myself just utterly delighted by Emily finding joy in different aspects of the film I had long since stopped laughing at.
“He plays creepy so well…” if she only knew 😂
For us GenXers this, along with The Breakfast Club, is our heart..
And 16 Candles
I loved this movie as a teen. Then my dad watched it and summed it up thusly: A spoiled kid gets his way all day. Maaaaan had no argument for that. LOL. Loved my dad for his succinctness. But still a fan of this movie. Cameron was me as well. Hell I think Cameron was all of us. We wished we were Ferris. But we were always Cam. He's the real hero. Stay gold you guys!!!! And when I lived outside of Chicago, went to the Gallery and stood in front of that same painting. Def a Cam moment. 🙂Sloan was, and still is, gorgeous!!! Huge crush on her!
I was in high school when this came out. I love this movie & can watch it numerous times & love it every time.
XD 17:08 EMILY! You did not just say that haha. Matthew was holding his teeth back
Hi Emily & Matthew, I enjoyed your reaction to this comedy classic, I love it and me and my sister quote the dialogue all the time. My viewer submitted title for Matthew is: Cinematic Sensei ;) Yes, the next John Hughes movie you just have to do on the channel is Weird Science (1985) It's hilarious as it is underrated. 2 high school nerds create a girl with their computer! So funny.
Says a lot that Emily seeing the doggie door she went straight to “stuck in the…” adult video genre 😂
I hope she didn’t see that sort of adult video with the specific situation in this movie. I’m pretty sure that’s not even legal. 😄
I just watched another reaction to this two days ago, but this 80's Classic literally never gets old. I was thirteen when it came out, and it's been a favourite ever since.
Greetings and salutations from Canada.🥃☮❤
oh Kristy Swanson. my heart still belongs to thee
also 4:23 - "god he plays creepy so well"
[teeth suck] [sigh] "yeeeeeup" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Who doesn't love the real.. One and only Buffy??!
@@mcgilj1 damn right!
@@marksummers666 plus... Hot daaaaaamn.. Did you see her in "The Chase" with Charlie Sheen? Hoooooly looord have mercy..
The principle chasing the kids has a whole new meaning.
I feel like, Edgar Wright's "The World's End" would be what a Ferris Bueller sequel would end up being.
I was a Junior in HS like Ferris when this came out ! Saw it opening night !! Haven’t stopped watching since⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
A little trivia...
You see the keyboard Ferris is using to make those sickly sounds? That's an Emulator II sampling keyboard. It was a professional piece of electronic gear that sold for $8,000 in 1984; it would go for $24,000 today. (So Ferris couldn't really complain about not having a car, but then John Hughes wasn't one for worrying about story logic.)
I would SO recommend 'Some Kind of Wonderful', whilst not directed by John Hughes, it was written by him and nobody has reacted to it. It really is (no pun intended) wonderful with a scene stealing performance by Elias Koteas as Duncan.
We all wanted to be Ferris growing up, but we all turned into Cameron.
...I'm dying.
Except for Charlie Sheen, who turned into Charlie Sheen.
Speak for yourself.
“Let my Cameron go”. :)
As the Cameron of my high school friend group, no...I did not want to be Ferris.
The Great Outdoors(1988) is another John Hughes classic that I’d check out next! It’s got John Candy, Dan Aykroyd, and non-stop laughter! 😁
saw this in theaters when it came out, the gasps from the crowd when the car went through the widow was hilarious
I watched this as a double feature in the drive in as a kid. I believe the other movie was Earnest goes to Camp. Years later I watched it with my daughter and she loved it. 🥰 It started retro film watch with us. When she was in high school a teacher of hers asked her class if anyone had seen The Princess Bride. She was one of two. 😂
I can't believe you hadn't seen this before!! I'm so very happy to see the reactions!
Ferris learned his computer skills when he was at school in Seattle playing games with Joshua.
3:12 Hey look, it's Buffy The Vampire Slayer.
3:49 Kudos for including both lines of "Let My Cameron Go". That's rare.
4:22 "He plays creepy so well" The Lady doesn't know how close she is there, but the Gentleman clearly does.
5:58 Edie McClurg is a treasure, and featured in one of the funniest scenes in the classic Planes, Trains And Automobiles.
6:52 I've been doing the lines, out loud, this whole time. Free the beast, Man.
9:22 Ohhh, Yeah! Chicka-chick-ahhh...
12:47 Fun fact that I finally looked up after nearly forty years: The dudes in the hats are members of the Rheinischer Verein. It's a German club that celebrates Fasching, which is like Mardi Gras or Carnivàle. The two men were in town on the day of shooting to watch the German Day parade that Ferris goes to later in the film.
22:46 Chandler Bing reference?
Gotta keep the beast under control cause I know it would annoy people lol. And yes that was a Chandler reference, nice catch.
I missed you two! I skipped some videos of stuff I haven't seen yet. So happy to see you again WITH this awesome classic Love you two, see you again soon. Thanks for the reaction video.
Ferris Bueller is a definite classic, I watch it all the time.
Wow I would have thought you had done this one already.... One of my absolute favorites to see on reaction channels. Keep 'em coming folks!!!!
Sweet. And Yello rocks, they've been one of my favourite bands since before "Oh Yeah" and definitely the single coolest thing to come from Switzerland. :) Their mixture of Electro and Latin American elements is legendary. :) They're on youtube as well and of course also the official "Oh Yeah". Beautiful.
One of my favorite when it first came out. It's still one of those movies where I stop to watch if I see it on TV.
Today I just got a bag of gummy bears from a vending machine. They are better when they sit in your pocket for a while. Great reaction!👍🏾
Cameron is my favourite in this movie,... and the actor playing him, Alan Ruck, played Stuart Bondek in the sitcom Spin city.... where that role might as well been Cameron in his adult life after changing his name...
SAVE FERRIS !!
Charisma is never a dump stat.
🤘😁👌
Other than Strength, I can’t decide what his dump stats would even be.
Ferris Bueller is on line 2!
That was so damn good!! 😁
i stayed at the Chicago Sofitel and had a 20th floor room. i did the leaning against the glass thing in the room
The interior office scenes for this movie were filmed at my high school. EL Camino Real in Woodlandhills CA. (Yes, I know the movie takes place in Chicago.)
This didn't come up in the post movie discussion, but one of the cultural influences of this movie that I always thought was funny, is that in the 90s, there was a Ska Punk band named Save Ferris. I don't even know any of their music. I just think it's funny that they named themselves that.
Ferris was in Tower Heist...all his karma and fast talking ways, ran out.🤪😂
Loved this classic, so happy you all added it to the reactions :)
Great reaction y’all. This movie is a classic that belongs on the Gen-X Mount Rushmore of movies.
A bit from George Carlin you just reminded me of: "Here's words no one has ever said before; hand me that piano. Do what you want to the girl but leave me alone." There is one more but I can't remember it at the moment.
I never noticed it until now,Cameron's bed is kind of shaped like a coffin when Ferris calls him on the phone the first time. I know that has to be symbolic of Cameron's head-space("Dead Inside").
@4:12 John Hughes' idea for Edie McClurg to have pencils in her hair.
John Hughes mentioned on the commentary, with Cameron kicking the car, how it shows how strong Cameron really is
My dad had an older truck when I was growing up that the odometer went in reverse when you did.
We had a specialist working at our school, who's job was to track & find kids who were skipping school.
I have watched this film dozens of times, in full form on TV and in numerous reactions...
and this is the first time I've noticed Cameron is wearing suspenders with a belt.
It's a commentary on how brittle and insecure a person he is.
And walking around Chicago, anyone catch that Cameron is wearing a Philidelphia Flyers shirt instead of a Chicago Black Hawks shirt?
Oh, and I first saw this in the theater.
Made the after-credit engagement (in the striped robe) all the more meaningful.
Have to impart my own high school experience.
I got a boyfriend in my sophomore year, in October.
During Christmas, I was helping my dad stuff signed cards into envelopes to send folks, and I kept a card for my own use.
School was broken up into 6wk grading periods; 3 absences during a grading period meant a phone call from the school.
Absences required a signed note from the parent to explain the absence and request it be excused.
I would make the note and forge my dad's signature. I would skip school on a day with no tests and never in the same week I had a legitimate absence. I'd take the bus to school and walk the mile to my boyfriend's house, arriving after his parents had left for work and his sibling had gone to school.
Mornings 'in his room', then afternoons at his college. Then the transit bus back to the mall and walk the half-mile home, arriving at my usual time.
One day, instead of the college, we went into the city; that was a fun day!
So, this film is nostalgia to me, even though my era was in the late 1960s.
Here I am, watching a movie about a Ferrari... and buying parts for my bicycle online 😅
A Hughes film that doesn't get much attention but which I think is one of his best is "She's Having a Baby." Kevin Bacon, Elizabeth McGovern, and Alec Baldwin. Great script, wonderful performances, and as always a killer soundtrack. (Kate Bush's song "This Woman's Work" was written for this film, completely heartbreaking in its intended setting.)
I usually get up and do the twist just around the time his dad does too...
I remember watching this movie back then. I was 11 wishing I would turn up look Ferris only to end up like Cameron!!!
Ferris might be an unintentional evil mastermind, but his heart is in the right place.
28:06 I died! You killed me with that! 😂😂😂
I'm a Cameron but inside I want to be a Ferris so I find I thrive with a Ferris friend to let me get wild sometimes but then go back to some sort of sensibility. We all need a Ferris friend. Unfortunately Ferris friends tend to move on to the things you find unsensible. So I've had several in my life.
Emily I absolutely LOVE your shirt. One of my all-time favorite films. I can still recite the game's opening line from memory :D
Edie McClurg is still kicking it too, she's 78 and feisty as ever lol, she's great in Planes,Trains, And Automobiles :D
12:48 love the Willis Tower (Sears Tower)!🏢😉
4:51 "Something's not right. He _hates_ freestyle jazz..."
Home Alone is a John Hughes movie. I would rank that number 1 and Ferris Bueler number 2. Then maybe Home Alone 2 number 3. I don't actually care about others, although Planes, Trains, and Automobiles is growing on me.
John Hughes did not direct Home Alone so yeah, not really his movie despite the involvement otherwise.
Breakfast Club is my opinion John Hughes best film followed closely behind with Ferris Bueller's day off.
I like how Ferris Bueller, a suburban teenager owns an $8000 E-Mu emulator synthesizer in 1980's money, there goes his college fund😂
Of the 4 John Hughes movies mentioned, I'd put them in a completely different order to both Matthew and Emily - Ferris Bueller first, then Breakfast Club, then Planes, Trains, ..., then Uncle Buck.