REWIND: Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986)
- Presented By: Tampa Theatre
- Dates: June 26, 2025
- Time: 7:30 PM
- 711 N Franklin St, Tampa, FL 33602
- Price: $6-$9
Tampa Theatre
Tampa Theatre June REWIND Film Series
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1h 43m / PG-13 / Comedy
VENUE: Historic Duncan Auditorium
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Matthew Broderick stars as Ferris Bueller in this love letter to Chicago and playing hooky. Ferris wants to take a day off of school, how’s that for an inciting action, and he’s taking his girlfriend Sloane (Mia Sara) and his best friend Cameron (Alan Ruck) with him, Well, provided Cameron will “borrow” his dad’s prized Ferrari. But to get away with it, they’ll have to dodge their troubled (ahem) principal, his loyal secretary (the inimitable Edie McClurg), suspicious parents and siblings, and a motivated maître d’. Ferris better have a plan …
There’s a popular fan theory that, in this crazed and joyful vision of a bunch of high-school suburbanites taking on the big city, the character of Ferris is just a figment of Cameron’s fevered imagination. Doesn’t matter if it’s true — for some light summer reading, look up the Umberto Eco essay Interrupted and Unfinished — because what makes the idea resonate is the fact that the beating heart of this movie is Cameron, and the sensitivity and love his friends show in trying to give him a good time. A fairytale of liberation, self-worth, confidence and the importance of pure fun, George Will once called it “the moviest movie”, which … well, it’s at least truer than the Ferris-isn’t-real meme. It takes advantage of all the things a movie can do better than any other medium: take chances, dip into the fantastical, create amazing visuals, bounce off the fourth wall. It’s an inverse Home Alone, and don’t get mad but it might be John Hughes’s best movie. If nothing else, it’s his weirdest.
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This month, Tampa Theatre is celebrating Members by offering another exclusive discount! Members receive FREE admission to REWIND screenings in June. Claim your free admission at the box office or through the Member portal in our eTix system. Just log into your account and select the “Free Member Ticket” option on the purchase page. One free ticket per Member.