Claim: Keanu Reeves is in movies.

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 .