Ferris Bueller's Day Off

In suburban Chicago, near the end of the school year, high school senior, Ferris Bueller, fakes illness to stay at home. Throughout the film, Ferris breaks the fourth wall to talk about his friends and give the audience advice on various subjects. His parents believe he is ill, though his sister Jeanie does not. Dean of Students, Edward R. Rooney, suspects Ferris is a repeat truant and commits to catching him. Ferris convinces his best friend, Cameron Frye, who is legitimately absent due to illness (though a hypochondriac, which Ferris sees through), to help lure Ferris's girlfriend, Sloane Peterson, from school on the pretext of her grandmother's supposed demise. To further the ruse, Ferris borrows Cameron's father's prized 1961 Ferrari 250 GT California Spyder. Cameron is dismayed when Ferris takes them in the car to spend the day in downtown Chicago. Ferris promises they will return it as it was, including the mileage on the odometer.