My brother and I must have watched Ferris Bueller's Day Off between 700 and 800 times. It was a reference point of our childhood, the lines like a kind of secret language.

We grew up in the northern Chicago suburbs, so our haunts looked like the world of Ferris Bueller—in some cases they were the actual haunts. The fictional Shermer, Illinois—setting for nearly all John Hughes movies—could have been our town. And Ferris Bueller was more than a movie character. He was a titan of nonconformity, an icon of cool.

Best of all, the movie, which was released 30 years ago this weekend, holds up today. (If you'd rather not watch it on VHS, as my brother and I did, you can buy the HD version on iTunes or stream it on Hulu.)

So what do the characters look like today? Have they held up? You be the judge. But for my money, yes, Sloane is still gorgeous.

Matthew Broderick (Ferris Bueller)

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Broderick has appeared in dozens of movies since his star turn as Ferris Bueller—even before that he did amazing work in WarGames—but he's found the most success on the stage, earning two Tony awards as well as a Tony nomination and major fanfare for his role inThe ProducersThe Producers. (Fun fact: Broderick got a Golden Globe nod for Ferris Bueller.) Broderick, who is 54 years old, is married to former Sex and the City star Sarah Jessica Parker.

Mia Sara (Sloane Peterson)

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Sara, who played Ferris's girlfriend (and became my composite for what a high school girlfriend might some day, some way, be), has continued to act, although her film and TV credits are somewhat modest. In a 1994 interview with Conan O'Brien, Sara, who was promoting the film Time Cop, said watching her then 17-year-old self in Ferris Bueller's Day Off is "horrifying," because she was so "geeky." She's currently 48.

Alan Ruck (Cameron Frye)

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Ruck played Ferris's hypochondriac best friend Cameron, who has a transformative experience on the day off. Ruck has become a familiar face on TV, with appearances in popular network shows like NCIS, Hawaii Five-O, and, most recently, The Middle (the best show you're not watching). He's 59.

Jennifer Grey (Jeanie Bueller)

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Although Grey played Broderick's malcontented sister in Ferris Bueller, the pair dated in real life both during and after the filming of the movie. The biggest role for Grey came in the wake of Ferris Bueller, when she starred in Dirty Dancing. In 2010, she showed up on ABC's Dancing with the Stars, which she won. She's 56.

Jeffrey Jones (Ed Rooney)

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Jones played arguably the most sniveling school administrator in film history, Ed Rooney, who made it his personal mission to catch Ferris. In 2003, Jones was arrested for employing a 14-year-old boy to pose for child pornography, according to CBS News. He pleaded no contest and received probation and counseling and was required to register as a sex offender. In 2010, he was arrested for failing to update his status on the sex offender registry. He's 69.

Edie McClurg (Grace)

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McClurg, who played the assistant to Ed Rooney, has, as BuzzFeed pointed out, been in pretty much every movie and TV show you've ever loved, including lending her voice to recent animated hits like Frozen and Zootopia. She's 64.

Lyman Ward (Tom Bueller, Ferris's dad)

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Ward played Ferris's dad and ended up marrying Cindy Pickett, the woman who played his wife in the film, after production wrapped. (They've since split.) He had a short role in another John Hughes film, Planes, Trains and AutomobilesTrains and Automobiles. ("You'll never make the 6," he warns Steve Martin at the start of the movie.) And he just missed a regular role on Beverly Hills, 90210. Ward was cast as the dad for the pilot, but his scenes were ultimately reshot with a different actor. He was most recently in Amazon's Transparent. Ward is 74.

Cindy Pickett (Katie Bueller, Ferris's mom)

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Although her most high-profile movie role was Ferris Bueller, Picket's primary medium for the past 30 years—at least the one where you've seen her the most—is television. She's had roles on a variety of popular shows, from Guiding Light and St. Elsewhere to Burn Notice and The Mentalist, not to mention ABC Afterschool Specials. She's 69.

Ben Stein (economics teacher)

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Stein is responsible for one of the film's most iconic lines: "Bueller, Bueller." Prior to Ferris Bueller, Stein was a speechwriter for Presidents Nixon and Ford. Along with numerous TV and film roles and talk show appearances—as well as his own game show, Win Ben Stein's Money—he's written and spoken extensively about politics and economics, some of it controversial. And just this month, Stein, a conservative, lambasted Donald Trump, saying he doesn't know "a Goddamn thing about economics" and that Trump is "not a great businessman." He's 71.

Charlie Sheen (guy in police station)

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Sheen is in the movie briefly, towards the end, when Jeanie Bueller is hauled in for making a (not actually) false police report. It's cute; they flirt with each other. Sheen's career has been filled with success and scandal since Ferris Bueller. He was most recently in the spotlight last November, when he told the world he is HIV positive.

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