Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989)

The Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure trailer is for the 1989 science fiction comedy starring Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter. In San Dimas, California, slacker best friends Ted Logan and Bill S. Preston, Esq., dream of rock stardom with their band, Wyld Stallyns. But they are about to fail history class, and if they do, Ted's father will send him to military school, which would break up the band and change the future. A man named Rufus, played by George Carlin, arrives from the year 2688 in a time machine shaped like a phone booth to help. Bill and Ted travel through history collecting famous figures, including Napoleon, Billy the Kid, Socrates, Joan of Arc and Abraham Lincoln, to bring them home for their history report. Stephen Herek directed. Sequels followed in 1991 and 2020. It is available on Blu-ray and digital.