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Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure

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Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989)

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Reviews Counted:963

Fresh:794

Rotten:169

Average Rating:6.8/10

Consensus: Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter are just charming, goofy, and silly enough to make this fluffy time-travel Adventure work.

Runtime: 90 mins

Genre: Comedies

Synopsis: Two brain-dead California teenagers, with a combined vocabulary of approximately 75 words, travel back in time to corral various historical figures for a class presentation that just might keep the... Two brain-dead California teenagers, with a combined vocabulary of approximately 75 words, travel back in time to corral various historical figures for a class presentation that just might keep the pair from failing history "most heinously." Napoleon, Socrates, Billy The Kid, Sigmund Freud and Mozart are among those who journey forward in time with the duo in order to give the youth of California eye-witness accounts of the "awesome" pageant that is world history. Most excellent. [More]

Starring: Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, George Carlin, Robert V. Barron

Starring: Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, George Carlin, Robert V. Barron, Terry Camilleri, Clifford David, Al Leong, Rod Loomis, Dan Shor, Tony Steedman, Jane Wiedlin, John "Fee" Waybill

Director: Stephen Herek

Director: Stephen Herek
Composer: David Newman

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