Movies of 1986 Bracket Game!: Back to School vs Ferris Bueller's Day Off

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This is a movie that I remember going to see with my brother and a family friend after a friendly get-together on what I thought was a holiday. If you’d stopped me and asked me on the street earlier today I would’ve guessed it was Christmas Eve, but seeing as the movie only played in theaters from mid June to early October, I’m now tempted to say it was July 4th. It was definitely the kind of movie kids who had just recently gained their freedom from a polite family dinner would want to see. Ferris Bueller, and by extension Matthew Broderick, grabbed an indelible place in ’80s pop culture as an idealized wise-ass who was both eccentric and accessible; lazy and driven. A rule-breaker who would somehow end up with a very respectable stock portfolio, because, as Cameron says, “…everything works for him.” Every teenaged boy wanted to be at least a little like Ferris Bueller. Never mind that the movie was pure fantasy. It was a fantasy that appealed to our inner sense of justice…and getting to do what we wanted. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off didn’t stake its claim as a cult film, either. It was a bonafide box office hit, taking in enough to be the tenth highest earner of 1986, giving writer/director John Hughes yet another in a long run of hits that stretched for most of a decade.