For only $2.3 million, you can own a house featured in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. It’s not the title character’s residence, though; it’s the home of “Cameron Frye.” You’ll recall this as the setting of the film’s ending, where Cameron’s dad’s Ferrari is accidentally hurled through the garage window and into a forest ravine.
While any memorable location from a favorite movie would be a treat to own, Cameron’s house from Ferris Bueller is desirable for the opportunity to relive that famous scene — perhaps with a less-valuable vehicle. In fact, we think the person who buys this home should turn it into a museum, a la the house from A Christmas Story, and offer visitors the chance to crash a disposable car into the ravine for whatever it would cost to maintain such an attraction.
The listing for this Highland Park, Illinois, property has inspired us to come up with ten more movie homes we wish we could own, whether as a dwelling or a plaything. What favorite film location would you want to live in?

The Walsh Residence from The Goonies
We fear that we’d actually face foreclosure if we lived in this Astoria, Oregon, home, and there’s probably not an actual pirate treasure map located in the attic to save us financially, but this would make a great hangout for young wannabe adventurers. Simple renovations are in order, of course: a Rube Goldberg device for opening the front gate is a necessity, and we’d want to also purchase the house next door, so we can glide along a cord suspended from one porch to the other. We just have to remember to be mindful of the screen door.

Hill House from Clue
Technically there is no Hill House as it appears in the movie. Even the exterior is a combination of location and matte painting, and the interior is obviously made up of sets on the Paramount lot. But we’d like to buy the Pasadena property used for driveway scenes and then build upon and adapt the mansion that’s there to fit the specification of the mansion in the film. We don’t really need blue prints; we can just look at the floor diagram from the Clue board game. It doesn’t really have to be perfect as long as there are secret tunnels.

The Vandamm House from North by Northwest
Unfortunately, this Frank Lloyd Wright-inspired house is even less real than the Hill House, as every bit of it was a set built at the MGM studios in Culver City, California. And that set, even if still existing, wasn’t fully functional. So, we’d have to find a mountainside lot as close to Mt. Rushmore as we can find, and make a livable replica.

J.F. Sebastian’s Apartment from Blade Runner
Speaking of Frank Lloyd Wright, it’d be cool to live in the Ennis House, which functions in the movie as Deckard’s apartment building (it’s also featured in other films and TV shows). We’d actually rather live in the Bradbury Building, though. Too bad it currently houses government and LAPD offices and the roof doesn’t leak so much. But maybe if we wait another decade (until 2019) the landmarked building (which also appears in many other films) will start to fall apart, its present occupants will abandon it and we can take over one of the floors and live there with our robotic “friends.”

Sculptured House from Sleeper
It may be awhile before this Colorado property is back on the market (it sold recently for more than $5.5 million), but when it does we’d like to buy it and pretend we’re living in the 22nd century. We’ll imagine the elevator is an orgasmatron and hire a butler who we’ll dress up like a tuxedoed robot. Hopefully we’ll also be able to find some land nearby to use for a large-fruit-and-vegetable garden.

Swiss Family Treehouse from Swiss Family Robinson
This home obviously didn’t really exist, but there was a long period of time where we would have settled on living in the Disneyland attraction based on the film’s treehouse. Unfortunately even that is somewhat nonexistent now that its been reappropriated as “Tarzan’s Treehouse.” So, we’ll have to commission a replica for this home, too. Or, we can hope that Disney’s remake of Swiss Family Robinson will have another treehouse just as cool as the one in the original and that they sell us the location when they’re done filming.

The Green Onion from Hello Down There
We’re actually a bit afraid of drowning, but we’d attempt to conquer our fears in order to live in Tony Randall’s underwater house from this little remembered musical from 1969. Filled with all kinds of “modern” appliances, it actually reminds us of something we saw at Disneyland’s Tomorrowland, though it’s obviously more inspired by The Beatles. And yes, there was a hip band in the movie, so we’d likely form a garage band and perform beneath the sea, too.

Ghostbusters Headquarters from Ghostbusters
Yes, this qualifies as a residence, since the guys did live there. We think? There does seem to be a dorm-type room shown when Ray dreams about getting a blowjob from a ghost. Anyway, even if the Ghostbusters didn’t consider the headquarters their primary residence, we’d like to make it ours. We just have to convince the FDNY that they don’t need the still-in-use firehouse. We’d probably get in trouble with Columbia Pictures for putting a Ghostbusters logo sign out front, though.

Brown Mansion from Back to the Future
Forget the McFly residence, Doc’s original home (in 1955) is much bigger, and has more potential for fun activities. No, we don’t mean parties. We mean daily attempts to discover a means of time travel. Every morning, we’ll go into the bathroom to hang a clock and intentionally fall off the toilet and hit our heads on the sink. Eventually we’ll either invent the real Flux Capacitor or die trying.

Lars Homestead from Star Wars
Luke Skywalker’s childhood home, where he lived with Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru, was a set built in the desert of Tunisia. And it still exists there. The igloo part of the homestead probably isn’t very comfortable or accommodating, and the underground part is apparently not real, but we’re geek enough to give the dwelling a shot, at least for a few days, and then we’ll resell it to another Star Wars fanatic.
John Lautner’s Chemosphere used in Body Double was the coolest thing ever when I was far too young to be watching movies like Body Double.
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Are you kidding? What about Tony Stark’s house from the movie “Iron Man”? Especially if it came with Jarvis and Pepper Potts . . .
Tony Starks House in Iron Man, not sure if its real or not but I liked it.
average movie, but Cale’s house from Disturbia is my dream come true
I would love to live in Whipstaff Manor, the house in Casper. I love all the curving architecture and the huge spiral in the main hall!
There have been many homes in movies that I wish I could have, but I loved the house in Thirteen Ghosts and the Jetson’s home.
Ooooh…I would love to live in Whipstaff Manor- very cool! But being from the South, I would absolutely love to live at Tara (Gone with the Wind) or the house from Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (all those acres!!!!)
The Lars Homestead from Star Wars is mostly an underground hotel in Tunisia. Sidi Driss Hotel — Matmata, Tunisia. Do a web search yourself and see.
A bunch of others here already beat me to Tony Stark’s mansion - that was immediately came to mind when reading your title.
Pretty much any of the rich suprhero houses will do, though.
You can’t forget the amazingly modern house from the recent “When A Stranger Calls”
http://www.horroria.com/i/nstills/31/77/63177/63177-396299.jpg
Not as huge or mansion-ish as some of these other ones, but a very cool, real-world modern house!
Poor display… On some level I can forgive a not having Tony Stark’s house. Who needs technology, an AI butler, and the greatest workshop of all time. I can also forgive Hogwarts and the X-Men Mansion. I can even stand idly by as there is no mention of the Enterprise with it’s holodeck (which would replace any of the other houses immediately). But I can not feel good about living in a world in which Wayne Manor home of the mother eff’in Batcave goes unmentioned.
What about the Tenenbaum House (The Royal Tenenbaums) or The Zissou House from The Life Aquatic?
Home Alone house…… was used in many John Hughes movies in the 80’s or 90’s… I think it was Uncle Buck’s house too? Anyway, the prototype for the great family home.
What about the Thunderbirds home on Tracy Island?
Yea seriously, where the hell is Tony Stark’s house from Iron Man?? That’s the first thing that came to my mind when I saw the page’s title.’
Lame.
WHAT ABOUT FRICKIN’ RICHIE RICH’S HOUSE?!?!?
The Blade Runner house was cool, but I would have gone with the house from Minority Report. Pretty nice with the hud displays on the screen.
I’ve been to the Ghostbusters headquarters. It DOES have the Ghostbusters symbol out front, it’s just painted on the driveway.
The Swiss Family Treehouse is still in Adventureland at Walt Disney World in Florida.
Man, I loved the house that Mr and Mrs Smith had!
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what about tony stark’s house from iron man!?
…uuummmm where the hell is Wayne Manor? Place only has a Helipad, Hangar, garage, Labratory, Gym, workshop, Archives, and thats all UNDER the damn House.
the one from blade runner for sure …
I like the glass house in 13 ghosts.
It’s from a TV series rather than a movie, but, if I could have any “screen” house, it would be Baltar’s lake house on Caprica on Battlestar Galactica.
I have no idea why J.F. Sebastian’s apartment is on this list; it was a rotting, decaying slum with water leaking everywhere. Horrible choice.
The two that should be on this list:
1. Tony Stark’s house (as shown in the movie Iron Man); best house EVER. It’s all CG, but what an amazing house.
2. Baltar’s house from the Battlestar Galactica pilot, which is an actual house in BC (and was also seen in the movie Firewall). This was my favourite house of all time until Iron Man.
What about the house from Webster, all those secret passages, come on!
this comment is for those who are wondering about the house in Iron Man. Yes, it is a real home and I know the man that currently owns it. his garage alone is over 4500 sq ft. It is located in California, and oh so cool. and im sure it is on the top of his list of the more than 10+ homes he owns…
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