Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure
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| Directed by | Stephen Herek |
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| Music by | David Newman |
| Cinematography | Timothy Suhrstedt |
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89 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $10 million |
| Box office | $40.5 million |
| Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | |
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| Soundtrack album by various artists | |
| Released | 1989 |
| Genre | Hard rock, heavy metal, glam rock, glam metal, pop rock, rock 'n' roll |
| Length | 40:32 |
| Label | A&M Records |
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure is a 1989 American science-fiction comedy buddy film and the first film in the Bill & Ted franchise in which two slackers travel through time to assemble a menagerie of historical figures for their high school history presentation.
The film was written by Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon and directed by Stephen Herek. It stars Alex Winter as Bill S. Preston, Esquire, Keanu Reeves as Ted "Theodore" Logan, and George Carlin as Rufus. Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure received generally positive reviews upon release and was commercially successful. It is now considered a cult classic. A sequel, Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey, was released two years later.
In Futuristic City, 2688, humanity exists as a utopian society due to the inspiration of the music and wisdom of the Two Great Ones: Bill S. Preston, Esq. (Alex Winter) and Ted "Theodore" Logan (Keanu Reeves). Rufus (George Carlin) is tasked by the leaders to travel back to San Dimas, California, in 1988 using a time machine disguised as a telephone booth to ensure that Bill and Ted, who are dimwitted metalhead slacker high school students, get a good grade in their final history oral report and allow them to pass the class. Should they fail, Ted's father, Police Captain John Logan (Hal Langdon), plans to ship Ted to a military academy in Alaska, ending Bill and Ted's fledgling band, the "Wyld Stallyns", thus altering the future. Bill, meanwhile, has a crush on his father's new wife, barely older than himself.
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