80sfilms

In 1986, John Hughes made a star out of Matthew Broderick, who played a guy named Ferris Bueller in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off–a film about a high school student who outsmarts all the adults in his life so he can skip school with his girlfriend and his best friend.

Not only did Broderick become a household name thanks to Ferris Bueller, but the film also helped propel the careers of Alan Ruck (who played Ferris’s best friend Cameron), Mia Sara (who played Ferris’s girlfriend Sloane), Jennifer Grey (as Ferris’s sister Jeanie), and Charlie Sheen and Kristy Swanson, both of whom played minor roles in the film.

While the film seemed to be all fun and games, focusing primarily on Ferris, Sloane and Cameron spending a day playing hooky in Chicago, there was also a darker side that alluded to Cameron being abused by his father.

Then there’s the fact that Jeffrey Jones (who played principal Ed Rooney in the film) was arrested in November 2002, after he was accused of hiring a 14-year-old boy to pose for sexually explicit photographs. Jones was charged with one felony count of employing a minor for purposes of taking sexually explicit photos and a misdemeanour count of possessing child pornography and released on $20,000 bail. In July 2003, after pleading no contest to the felony charge, he was placed on a sex offender register, given five years probation and ordered to undergo counselling. The misdemeanour charge of possession or control of child pornography was dropped. In 2004, he was again arrested for failure to register as a sex offender at a new address.

Can anyone say ick?…Anyone?

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