"Ferris Bueller's Day Off" — in which our city of Chicago plays a starring role — is once again getting a free outdoor showing at Millennium Park's Jay Pritzker Pavilion on Tuesday, August 20.
And Naturally Chicago is organizing a group to attend and enjoy each other's company while watching the classic 1986 movie comedy.
It's likely that most of you have seen the movie at least once. In case you haven't...
It is one of the best known of late director John Hughes' canon of films focused on the adventures and misadventures of young people in Chicago's affluent North Shore suburbs. Ferris Bueller is a whip-smart but mischievous high school student who connives a plan to cut school with his girlfriend and best buddy and spend the day seeing the sights in the big city.
Hilarity, and some drama, ensues. And the movie is perhaps the greatest cinematic love letter to Chicago, taking the teenagers to venues that were beloved almost 40 years ago and are even more so today.
It is a virtual certainty that you'll be up on your feet dancing during a key scene late in the movie. We all work hard, but in the words of Ferris Bueller, "Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it."
Make sure you stop and join us for a couple of hours on a late summer night.
