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Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure

1989 · directed by Stephen Herek · 90 min · PG
24,689 feet · Prominence
595th of 24,106 films scored
Not coveredNo Rewatchables episode on file.

How this film scores

Draw55

Lifetime worldwide gross $41m, re-releases included; about $108m in 2026 money.

Rank2,791 of 11,051In 198935 of 156

How Draw works

Inflation-adjusted worldwide box office, on one global curve, and nothing else. It does not know whether a film was good.

Praise67

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics67 baseAwards0 signal → +0 lift

No award rows on file, usually missing data rather than missing honours. Wikidata is thin for older and non-English films.

How Praise works

Critics set the score; a tiered award record, Picture and Directing carrying the most weight, claims half the headroom above it. Praise is the verdict at the time; Legacy is the verdict since.

Legacy70

Judged directly: 'Be excellent to each other'; permanent catchphrase.

Verdict70 of 100IMDb6.9 from 149kWikipedia23k views a monthAge37 years

Scored beside it · 317 of 4,039 films judged

If it does not belong in this company, the number is wrong.

How Legacy works

Legacy is a judgment, not a formula. A film can be adored by critics and culturally quiet, or lightly reviewed and permanently lodged in the culture, and no arithmetic over IMDb numbers tells the difference. Every signal behind it keeps updating.

draw 55 praise 67 legacy 70averages 64, placing it at24,689 ft
How the three become one number

Added, not multiplied, so a film transcendent on one pillar and weak on another is not zeroed out. A compression curve then squeezes the top, because the seven greatest films ever made should not be four thousand feet apart.

Whose apex this is

▲ Terry Camilleri

In these careers — elevation for this film

Keanu Reeves20,204 ftAlex Winter19,215 ftGeorge Carlin18,137 ftTerry Camilleri17,844 ft