Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
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68% Critic Match

Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure

History is about to be rewritten by two guys who can't spell.

6.8 / 10 1989 1h 30mPG English
AdventureComedyScience Fiction

Storyline

Bill and Ted are high school buddies starting a band. They are also about to fail their history class—which means Ted would be sent to military school—but receive help from Rufus, a traveller from a future where their band is the foundation for a perfect society. With the use of Rufus' time machine, Bill and Ted travel to various points in history, returning with important figures to help them complete their final history presentation.

Cast & Crew

Keanu Reeves

Keanu Reeves

Ted 'Theodore' Logan

Lead
Alex Winter

Alex Winter

Bill S. Preston

George Carlin

George Carlin

Rufus

Terry Camilleri

Terry Camilleri

Napoleon

Dan Shor

Dan Shor

Billy the Kid

Tony Steedman

Tony Steedman

Socrates

Rod Loomis

Rod Loomis

Freud

Al Leong

Al Leong

Genghis Khan

What People Are Saying

4.0
A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Stephen Herek's vision lands with breathtaking precision.
Manohla Dargis, The New York Times
3.0
Every frame feels alive. Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.
Anthony Lane, The New Yorker