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What Ferris Bueller and Other ’80s Movies Got Wrong About Mental Health KQED
David Singer clicks through iTunes looking for “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” a film he watched at least 12 times when it first came out in 1986. He was in his early 20s then. “You’re old,” his younger daughter mutters, as she nudges her dad to choose the HD version. Singer has high hopes as he settles in to watch the film with his wife and their two daughters, Emma, 13, and Elliot, 16, at their home in San Francisco. “I want them to fall in love with it, just the way I did,” he says, as the opening scenes begin to roll. “Getting them to watch a movie from my younger days is always a challenge…