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Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989)

★ 6.9PG86 minDirector: Stephen Herek

1989 film by Stephen Herek

Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure is a 1989 American science fiction comedy film directed by Stephen Herek and written by Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon. The first installment of the Bill & Ted franchise, it stars Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter and George Carlin. The film follows two metalhead slacker high school students, Bill (Winter) and Ted (Reeves), who travel through time to assemble historical figures for their high-school history presentation.

It received positive reviews and was a modest box-office success, grossing $40 million against a $10 million budget. Winter and Reeves reprised their roles in two sequels: Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (1991) and Bill & Ted Face the Music (2020).

Plot summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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What is Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure about?
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989) — In the small town of San Dimas, a few miles away from Los Angeles, there are two nearly brain dead teenage boys going by the names of Bill S, Preston ESQ. and Ted Theodore Logan, they have a dream together of starting their own rock and roll band called the "Wyld Stallyns". Unfor
Is Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure based on a true story?
See the production background and source material details on the official Wikipedia article.
Is Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure scary?
Content rating: PG. See the reviews tab for parental guidance and tone notes.