Naturally, I dreamed about cutting class and zipping around Chicago in a 1961 Ferrari 250GT California. I grew up in a place not unlike Ferris's tony North Shore suburb. As a friend put it, "Every kid has dreamed of pulling off what Ferris Bueller did." This was certainly true in my case. "I think," Juno director Jason Reitman says in Don't You Forget About Me, a 2009 documentary about the late Hughes, "Ferris Bueller's a perfect movie." A quarter century after its release, the explanation for why Ferris Bueller's Day Off remains a pop-culture touchstone is simple. An episode of the FOX medical drama House that aired in March centered on a homeless guy who called himself Ferris Bueller. This February, Baseball Prospectus writer Larry Granillo dedicated two blog posts to determining the precise Cubs game Ferris and his pals attended while playing hooky. References can also be found outside the classroom. The line, "Bueller? Bueller? Bueller?", delivered by Ben Stein's monotonic economics teacher, is American educators' go-to, passive-aggressive rallying cry. Yet they too remain fixated on Ferris, a role that earned Matthew Broderick a Golden Globe nomination. Adults, on the other hand, should know better. I guess being 17 is a good excuse for banality. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it." In hindsight, it seems about as profound as a fortune cookie. Before going with a bromidic Bob Dylan lyric, I almost made my own senior quote, "Life moves pretty fast. "Today you'd be hard-pressed to find an American high-school yearbook that doesn't quote somewhere in its pages Ferris Bueller's view on existence," author Susannah Gora writes in her book You Couldn't Ignore Me If You Tried: The Brat Pack, John Hughes, And Their Impact on a Generation. Paramount Pictures Ferris Bueller's Day Off, which hit theaters 25 years ago this week and will soon be re-released on Blu-Ray and DVD, inspires a special kind of reverence in suburbia. Twenty-five years after its release, John Hughes's most-loved work doesn't hold up
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