A 1986 comedy by John Hughes in which a charismatic Chicago teenager fakes illness to skip school and drags his best friend and girlfriend on a day-long adventure through the city.
Established the fourth-wall-breaking, self-aware teen protagonist as a comedy format and captured a specific suburban Chicago milieu that formed one half of Christopher Nolan's bicultural childhood.
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