Word: bueller
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...movie, a young, geeky computer whiz (played by the same young, geeky actor in Ferris Bueller's Day Off and other assorted teen fantasies) breaks into a secret Pentagon computer and almost sets off World War III. This cinematic experience ends with a glorification of individual creativity--in the person of the computer geek and his loyal heroine (played by Ally Sheedy)--and a condemnation of technology gone wild--played by a renegade computer charmingly named Joshua...
...delights as a farm truck, a refrigerator truck and a bus that grinds to an unpleasant halt) in the desperate effort to get home. We are also aware of two agreeable things about Hughes. The first is that he has a nice, easy gift for unforced farce (see Ferris Bueller's Day Off). The other is that his teen romances (see Pretty in Pink) have always insisted that the American underclass is actually superior to its middle-class betters in worldly wisdom and moral acuity. Both his comic virtue and his social vision are on pleasant display here...
Born of the same teen fantasy-come-true world as Ferris Bueller's Day Off and Risky Business, Fox's latest showcases an enterprising young man who can turn the world on its side and hurdle any obstacle with humor and flair. Fox's wide-eyed enthusiasm quickly wins the audience over and he gives his character more dimensions than do the pin-ups of him in teen magazines...
...Ferris Bueller...
...Ferris Bueller...