<Tr> <Th> Budget </Th> <Td> $10 million </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Box office </Th> <Td> $40.5 million </Td> </Tr> <P> Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure is a 1989 American science - fiction comedy buddy film in which two slackers travel through time to assemble a menagerie of historical figures for their high school history presentation . </P> <P> 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 . </P>

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