Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989)

Directed by

Stephen Herek

Genre

comedy film, science fiction film, buddy film, science fiction comedy, teen film, time-travel film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 26m

Rated

PG

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 2,127 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two slacker high school students travel through time to collect historical figures for their history presentation. They must get the figures back in time to pass the class.

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What happens

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). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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