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VIDEO ESSAY: Cameron Frye in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

Legendary writer-director John Hughes was responsible for a string of iconic teen films from the 1980s onward. And yet without the characters feeling like real teenagers (with Cameron Frye in particular, to the fore), the films wouldn’t work. The audiences wouldn’t care. People still argue that in PRETTY IN PINK best friend Duckie (Jon Cryer) should have ended up with Andie (Molly Ringwald), or which member of THE BREAKFAST CLUB they are. Cameron Frye (Alan Ruck) then, from FERRIS BUELLER’S

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