September12009
"If you grew up in or near the city, the whole conceit that anyone would skip school to do anything so cheesy was condescending to the point of being offensive. It’s not a movie about Chicago, it’s a movie about being from the suburbs; likewise, I never saw it as a love letter to Chicago but a love letter to the idea of Chicago. But it’s always bothered me to no end how it gets treated as a ‘Chicago film’ even though it’s really just a ‘35 minutes up I-94’ film. It would’ve been nice for Hughes to credit us Chicagoland delinquents with a little imagination."
— Andrew Reilly on Crosstalk: Ferris Bueller: True to Chicago?
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