Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
PG-13 | 1h 43min | 80% Rotten Tomatoes
This John Hughes 1980s coming of age film follows high school senior Ferris Bueller (Matthew Broderick), who decided to skip school to hang out with his girlfriend and best friend. The friends visit several Chicago landmarks, including a trip to the Art Institute of Chicago.
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Stream: Netflix
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Midnight in Paris
PG-13 | 1h 40min | 93% Rotten Tomatoes
Woody Allen’s time travel comedy follows Gil Pender (Owen Wilson), a successful but unfulfilled Hollywood screenwriter who travels to Paris with his fiancé and her conservative family. One night Gil gets drunk and lost in the streets of Paris, where he is picked up by a vintage car that allows him to travel back in time to meet artists including Salvador Dalí, Man Ray, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Paul Gauguin, and Edgar Degas.
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Stream: Amazon (with ads)
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The Thomas Crown Affair
Rated R | 2h | 70% Rotten Tomatoes
In this art heist remake, Thomas Crown (Pierce Brosnan), a multi-millionaire who steals Claude Monet’s San Giorgio Maggiore at Dusk from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This causes an attractive insurance investigator (Rene Russo) to pursue him for the crime and before long the two fall in love.
Where to Watch
Stream: HBO
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