Ferris fans: Buy Cameron Frye's house ... for $2.3 million
"Frye ... Frye ... Frye ..." Cameron Frye doesn't live here anymore. His home from 1986's Ferris Bueller's Day Off is on the market.
A Chicago Realtor has listed 370 Beach St. in Highland Park, Ill. -- where portions of the movie were filmed -- for the paltry sum of $2.3 million. Red 1961 Ferrari 250GT California not included. (Well, it's still probably stuck in the trees.)
The house is 5,300 square feet, includes a three-car garage, four bedrooms and four bathrooms. Click here to see more details and photos from inside the 1953 home, built by architects A. James Speyer and David Haid.
Ferris fans will remember the glassed-in garage, where Cameron's fate is sealed so poetically when his dad's car -- stuck in reverse to erase the mileage from their day off -- goes flying into the woods below.
Ferris director John Hughes, who reportedly still lives on Chicago's North Shore, has been told the home is for sale, but hasn't commented publicly, according to the Daily Herald.
TOP 5 MEMORABLE CAMERON FRYE LINES:
5. "I am not going to sit on my a-- as the events that affect me unfold to determine the course of my life. I'm going to take a stand. I'm going to defend it. Right or wrong, I'm going to defend it."
4. "This is ridiculous, okay I'll go, I'll go, I'll go, I'll go, I'll go."
3. "Pardon my French, but you're an a------!"
2. "Ferris Bueller, you're my hero."
1. "When Cameron was in Egypt's land ... let my Cameron go!"
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Can we pool our resources, buy this sweet pad, and turn it into some sort of '80s-loving commune? An oasis where we can forget about this stupid post-'80s world? Sign me up...
Posted by: Blaine | May 29, 2009 at 01:34 AM
Don't forget: Do you know what my diastolic is?
Posted by: Dr. Incognito | May 27, 2009 at 10:03 PM
I will have to stop by if they have an open house. Maybe when you get in town we can stop by.
Posted by: Neil | May 27, 2009 at 01:46 PM
I think it'd be cool if John Hughes stepped up and bought it and turned it into a Ferris museum, or just lived there himself.
But Hughes seems bent on staying out of the spotlight today, for whatever reason.
Posted by: Spears | May 27, 2009 at 12:21 PM
It is a nice house, too bad I can't afford it in this life time.
Posted by: DerekT | May 26, 2009 at 05:02 PM