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Ferris Bueller's Day Off(1986)
Released
1986 · FILM

Ferris Bueller's Day Off

A charismatic high‑school senior schemes to skip school and turn an ordinary day into an unforgettable adventure, all while evading a relentless dean determined to catch him in the act.

“Leisure rules.”

Directed by
John Hughes
Written by
John Hughes
Rated
MPA · PG-13
Runtime
103 min
Comedy

Synopsis

Ferris Bueller, a high school slacker, fakes an illness to skip school for the day and embarks on a series of adventures in Chicago with his girlfriend, Sloane, and his best friend, Cameron. Throughout the day, he attempts to stay one step ahead of his shrewd school principal and his exasperated sister.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 57+ credited

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Paul HirschShot by Tak FujimotoScored by Ira NewbornDesigned by John W Corso

Box Office

1986 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 12× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$70.1M

Budget$6.0M
Worldwide gross$70.1M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $6.3M — 9% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Peak 1,330 theaters

Full synopsis

Also known as

  • Ferris macht blaude
  • La folle journée de Ferris Buellerfr
  • Una pazza giornata di vacanzait

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