Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure

1989 90 min ★ 6.8 Adventure, Comedy, Science Fiction

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.

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Cast

Keanu Reeves

Ted 'Theodore' Logan

Alex Winter

Bill S. Preston

George Carlin

Rufus

Terry Camilleri

Napoleon

Dan Shor

Billy the Kid

Tony Steedman

Socrates

Rod Loomis

Freud

Al Leong

Genghis Khan

Jane Wiedlin

Joan of Arc

Robert V. Barron

Abraham Lincoln

Details

Director

Stephen Herek

Tagline

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

Status

Released

Original Language

EN

Budget

$10,000,000

Revenue

$40,510,984

Production

DEG, Nelson Entertainment, Interscope Communications, Soisson/Murphy Productions

Reviews

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Peter McGinn

October 14, 2020

★ 7/10

Another one of those movies I first watched a few years after it came out, and just watched again this week. It is still very funny to me in many places during their adventure. Their reaction to stuff that happens is hilarious sometimes, and just the speech patterns they use is witty. Little things like referring to Joan of Arc as Miss of Arc, for example. Remiscent of the valley girl language in ...

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CinemaSerf

January 4, 2023

★ 7/10

Any film thats starts with "Joan of Arc was not Noah's wife" has got to be worth a look! "Ted" (Keanu Reeves) and best mate "Bill" (Alex Winter) have the knowledge at school - who uses "audacious" even now? They are, however, completely unfocused and like any other teenage boys, distracted by just about anything but schoolwork. Faced with flunking their history project though, they have to get the...