Cameron might not be in that much trouble

Even if it's not that bad (which, I'm sorry to tell you, it is; it's totaled), how would they get it out of the backyard? No, I'd say Cameron is toast, despite his confidence that he and his dad will just have "a little chat".

His dad polishes the car with a diaper. He loves the car more than he loves Cameron..

Dude is toast.





Hitler! C'mon, I'll buy you a glass of lemonade.

Im sure it has some serious structural damage from that fall

His father beat him half dead with a toaster.
You can rest assure of that.

It'd probably only cost a few thousand dollars. Remember in Risky Business when Joel accidentally drowned his dad's Porsche? The damage in that case had to be far more extensive than what happened to the Ferrari, yet it supposedly only cost a few thousand dollars to fix. The Ferrari couldn't have been much more than that.

With the way Cameron described him, a tiny small scratch would be enough to infuriate him. But who knows, Cameron probably bailed immediately after Ferris left and never came back. Or he did avoid a beating by making his old man realize that a car was of no importance compared to a son. Nah. There's a bigger chance the sight of the car alone killed his dad.

But yeah, I still think Cameron managed to get out of it somehow.

hehe, it's so weird how the moviemakers just left that story without a follow up, i expected this board to be packed with wondering what happened to cameron after the car incident but this was the only thread i could find, each time this movie airs i feel you're left wondering what happened, when cameron talks about his daddy he lets out the line "son of a bitch is down there somewhere", in a way i guess he called his grandma a bitch. i'm surprised how many seem to think the lead is a prick, i find him so harmless, i mean compare him to modern flicks like these. goodness, "family guy" has spoofed this a lot.



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ass kissin day,
to stay in good grace,
thought you only cared for yourself,
till it was the boss birthday.

Cameron's level of 'trouble' has nothing to do with the level of damage to the car.

The whole point of the scene was not the car or its damage, but Cameron's overcoming his fear of his parents. Instead of always cowering like a gutless bunny, Cameron grew a spine and learned to confront his fears, he found strenght from inside of himself, and regardless of what ACTUALLY HAPPENS (although this whole thing being fiction, there's nothing definite that does), the important stuff already happened;

Cameron became better-equipped for life, and that will benefit him for the rest of his incarnation, even IF his father gave him a beating.

In my opinion, a father that's used to bossing his coward son around easily, isn't prepared or equipped to suddenly handle a confident son that talks back to him after wrecking his car.

This whole thing could lead to a chain reaction, that, although shocking at first, will FORCE everyone in Cameron's family to re-evaluate their priorities (that are 'out of whack', even according to Ferris), and perhaps his father will, due to reflection on his priorities and chasing the material over the more important, realize the depth of his mistakes, and change course.

I have experienced many a similar thing in life, where at first, something shocking has happened, but later I have realized due to reflection and insights, just how big a blessing that something shocking was.

At least this is the scenario I like to imagine, and in my opinion, this is the direction the movie hints this is going. Regardless of how things actually 'go' with his father, Cameron is still better off having a spine and confronting his fears, and this might actually really shake his father into a completely better way of thinking about things - and all this might as well affect the cleanliness-freak-of-a-mother, that will realize her child's happiness is more important than whether the floors sparkle a certain shade of gold.