Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Not that it matters, but most of it is true.
1969 • 111 min • Western
Synopsis
As the west rapidly becomes civilized, a pair of outlaws in 1890s Wyoming find themselves pursued by a posse and decide to flee to South America in hopes of evading the law.
Our family guide
Best from age 12- 83 Reviewers · 6 · 69%
- 76 Audience · 2518 · 31%
Two charismatic outlaws, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, lead their gang on a series of train robberies in the American West. Pursued relentlessly by a super posse, they flee with Sundance's lover to Bolivia, hoping for a fresh start, but their past catches up to them.
- Violence & peril
- 5/10
- Language
- 3/10
- Drinking, drugs & smoking
- 3/10
- Romance & sensuality
- 2/10
- Scary moments
- 4/10
Heads up
- Gunfights result in injuries and deaths
- Some drinking and cigar smoking
- Implied sexual relationship
What it models well
- Loyalty and friendship
- Resourcefulness under pressure
- Adapting to change
Talk about it after
- The realities of a life of crime
- Choices and consequences
- The end of an era
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Top billed cast
Director: George Roy Hill • Crew: William Goldman
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Reviewer notes
RecommendedButch Cassidy (Paul Newman) and the Sundance Kid (Robert Redford), leaders of a gang, find themselves chased by something special after a train robbery, and come up with an idea to escape to Bolivia. They commit a robbery smartly, being so naive in other fields. The unbalance makes it hard to simply see them as bad. They are even charming, probably because of Paul Newman and Robert Redford.…
Recommended**Unique among the westerns, we understand this film better in the light of the time in which it was made.** Butch Cassidy, Sundance Kid and the Hole in the Wall gang are in the “Hall of Fame” of the greatest thieves and robbers of the Old West.…
RecommendedRobert Redford and Paul Newman are on super form in this story of the eponymous turn of the century train robbers. There is loads of charisma on display as this pair take a sort of care in the community approach to their crimes. Determined to avoid fatalities, they proceed to make the life of poor old railway clerk "Woodcock" (George Furth) a nightmare.…
Not recommendedThis is what you might call "lightly likable". It's a comic Western about the two famous outlaws of the Hole in the Wall gang. I saw it at the Louisville cinema when it came out, and I wasn't thrilled, but I wasn't totally averse to it.…
RecommendedTrusted family reviewersI found this movie to be entertaining and intelligent, sticking surprisingly close to real events a lot of the time. Robert Redford and Paul Newman have a good chemistry together, as they will illustrate again in The Sting. This was one of if not the most popular movie the year it came out.…
RecommendedTrusted family reviewersEsto es un robo, las manos arriba! Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is directed by George Roy Hill and written by William Goldman. It stars Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross and Strother Martin. A Panavision/De Luxe production with music by Burt Bacharach and cinematography by Conrad Hall.…
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Details
- TMDB audience
- 7.6/10 (2,518)
- Age rating
- PG
- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $6,000,000
- Box office
- $102,308,889
- Franchise
- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Collection
- IMDb
- tt0064115
