You forgot the stock exchange.
Also, no one 'walks home' - Ferris RUNS (and jumps), Jeanie drives.
But let's see, if your question is reasonable.
First of all, what makes you say it's 'late morning', and what do you mean by 'late morning'?
It's hard to say what time it is, but let's assume it's something like 9 O'clock, when they pick up Sloane (I think this is reasonable, given that some stuff has happened, and the first class is already over).
Drive downtown shouldn't take that long. Let's give it 30 minutes. So now it's 09:30 am. They go to the garage, then walk to Willis Tower (then Sears Tower), and take a fast elevator to the top (or multiple elevators). So this takes another 30 minutes, including the 'watching the scenery for a few seconds'-scene and coming back down.
They do the stock exchange visit, which doesn't look like it takes that long - 15 minutes for that.
So they eat a fancy lunch at, let's say 10:25 am. That's probably around 35 minutes. So now it's 11:10 am. Now, I don't know anything about baseball games, but I reckon' they can take until three hours or so. However, nothing indicates that Ferris and friends necessarily stayed the whole duration of the game, so let's say they got bored after an hour, and went to the museum.
12:10 am.
Art museum. They 'clearly take their time'? Well, sure, but what does that mean? So they goof around a bit, look at some paintings, Ferris and Sloane kiss a bit, while Cameron stares at a painting. This doesn't necessarily take more than 20 minutes, but let's give them 30 minutes.
12:40 pm. The Parade doesn't take long, just a couple of songs, a bit of discussion between Cameron and Sloane, and they're already ready to leave.
Let's give it a whole hour to be generous.
So now it's 13:40 pm, it's early afternoon, and they're already heading back with the Ferrari. Cameron freaks out, and they drive to the beach to calm him down. This scene takes maybe 20 minutes, before they go to the Jacuzzi and pool.
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6 years ago
So now it's 14:00 pm, they hang around, talk with Cameron, try to reset the mileage, and the car crashes, etc. We can give this whole thing an hour or two, and still it's only 15-16:00 pm.
Sounds about right - this is when everything starts moving - the parents start heading home, Ferris does the same. We can't expect someone like Ferris to run for more than 15-20 minutes - maybe even less. So at least by early evening, around 17:00 pm, the events unfold at Ferris's house, and Roonie starts his sad walk back home.
Now, I don't know about American school bus schedules, but Rooney taking a school bus might have been a problem of editing, instead of originally planned feature. I mean, it doesn't make sense for it to be so late that everyone is arriving home from work, but yet at the same time so early that school buses still run.
Other than that, I see absolutely no problem with their schedule - the day doesn't seem to be 'longest day ever' - just a regular-length day.
You can also easily adjust some things to fit; they don't have to hang around 1-2 hours at Cameron's place, they might take a bit longer here or there, it's really the baseball game that throws off everything, if we assume they stay for the whole duration.
I don't think it's impossible to do all that during one day, and I wonder why people think it's unrealistic. Also, it's a movie, you have to give it a bit of suspension of disbelief anyway. It's not like they did 900 things during one day
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