In the iconic movie shot in and around Chicago four decades ago, writer, actor and economics guru Ben Stein plays a high ...

The film is “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” a 1986 coming-of-age comedy that stars Matthew Broderick as an impish student who leads his friends in a day of cutting class on the streets of Chicago.

With all the talk of tariffs and trade wars between Canada and the United States, a little rewatching of the 1986 coming-of-age classic, “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” might be in order, to gain a better ...