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Ferris Bueller's Day Off is a 1986 American teen comedy film written, co-produced, and directed by John Hughes. The film stars Matthew Broderick , Mia Sara , and Alan Ruck , with supporting roles from Jennifer Grey , Jeffrey Jones , Cindy Pickett , Edie McClurg , Lyman Ward , and Charlie Sheen .
He is best known on screen as the economics teacher in Ferris Bueller's Day Off, as the host of Win Ben Stein's Money, and as Dr. Arthur Neuman in The Mask and Son of the Mask. Stein also co-wrote and starred in the controversial 2008 film Expelled which was widely criticized for promoting pseudoscientific intelligent design creationist claims ...
Matthew Broderick (born March 21, 1962) [1] is an American actor. His roles include the Golden Globe–nominated portrayal of the title character in Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986), the voice of adult Simba in Disney's The Lion King (1994), and Leo Bloom in both the Broadway musical The Producers and its 2005 film adaptation.
It's been more than 30 years since "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" hit theaters in 1986, instantly becoming an ultimate high school movie classic. (Okay, THE ultimate high school movie classic.)
To avoid being typecast, Hall turned down roles written for him by John Hughes in Ferris Bueller's Day Off (Cameron Frye) and Pretty in Pink (Phil "Duckie" Dale), both in 1986. [ 10 ] [ 23 ] Instead, he starred in the 1986 film Out of Bounds , Hall's first excursion into the thriller and action genre.
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It was the first in a string of efforts about teenage life set in or around high school, including The Breakfast Club (1985), Weird Science (1985), and Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986), all of which he wrote and directed, and Pretty in Pink (1986) and Some Kind of Wonderful (1987), which he wrote and produced.