The Forgotten Bueller Childrenįerris and Jeanie have a younger brother, Ricky, and sister, Kimberly. Like most characters in John Hughes films, Ferris, Jeanie, Sloane, and Cameron attended Shermer High School in the (sadly fictional, see Dogma) Chicago suburb of Shermer, Illinos - which means that Assistant Principal Vernon of The Breakfast Club was Ed Rooney’s number one, and plenty of other mindblowing connections already made by this Fast Company video we ran last week.
Why was Jeanie so pissed at her brother? What shocking connection to Ferris Bueller does Charlie Sheen’s character have? What did Ferris, Sloane, and Cameron eat at the French restaurant? All of these questions and more are answered in this novelization by Todd Strasser - the young adult author and sometimes hired gun who also gave us adaptations of Home Alone and Street Fighter II -and here’s the most noteworthy information we gleaned from it. Seeing how Todd Strasser’s novelization for Ferris Bueller’s Day Offmore than matches all of the criteria listed above, it is perhaps the greatest example of this underrated artform. Most importantly, these novels can give you insights into the background of characters that lets you view them in a different light and/or answers any nagging unanswered questions about a movie.
