Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Movie Guide Questions & Worksheet

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Movie Guide Questions & Worksheet helps students analyze a revisionist Western built on antiheroes, friendship, humor, reputation, and the pressure of a changing world. Instead of treating outlaw life as simple adventure, the guide asks students to track how charm, danger, and modern pursuit slowly close in on Butch and Sundance.

This movie guide is a strong fit for ELA, film study, media literacy, and discussion-based classes in Grades 8-12. Teachers can pause at key time-stamped scenes to examine leadership, comic tone, loyalty, and the way the film turns repeated robberies and escapes into a larger story about myth meeting reality.

The resource combines discussion, short-answer analysis, vocabulary in context, and a multiple-choice review with language scaled for accessible classroom use. Because the questions stay tied to dialogue and scene evidence, students can discuss antiheroes, modernization, and genre change without flattening the film into simple hero worship.

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Film Summary:

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid follows two famous outlaws whose confidence and partnership cannot stop the world from changing around them. As posses, railroads, banks, Bolivia, and bad luck keep tightening the pressure, the film mixes humor and danger to explore friendship, fading outlaw myths, and the cost of living by old tricks in a more organized age.

Parental Guidance:

IMDb Title: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064115/

IMDb Parental Guide: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064115/parentalguide/

Rated PG. Teachers can expect Western gun violence, robberies, threat, mild language, drinking/smoking, romantic implication, and an off-screen/ambiguous final burst of violence.

Perfect For:

• Revisionist Western study
• Media literacy
• ELA
• Substitute plans
• Antihero analysis
• Genre comparison
• Classes discussing friendship
• Modernization
• Reputation
• Ironic endings

Skills Addressed:

• Character analysis
• Tone study
• Cause and effect
• Antihero discussion
• Genre awareness
• Vocabulary in context
• Using dialogue evidence to explain changing relationships and larger themes

What's Included:

Student Materials

• Rigorous Short Answer Questions (chronological, time-stamped)
• End-of-Film Reflection & Challenge Questions
• 30 Question MC Quiz (Self-Graded Google Forms)

Teacher Materials

• Teacher's guide and lesson plan
• Worksheet & MC Quiz answer key
• CCSS alignment
• Pre- and post-movie discussion questions
• 3-day, 4-day, and 5-day pacing options
• Admin movie request and parent/guardian permission slip materials

Digital & Print Options

• All materials have Google Classroom and Print Options

Flexible Lesson Pacing

• 3-Day Sprint: best for tight schedules or classes that do better with smooth viewing and discussion after the film
• 4-Day Flexible Plan: best for teachers who want either discussion before and after the film or selected pause-and-write checkpoints during viewing
• 5-Day Full Week: best for classes that need more guided discussion and writing time in class, with less take-home work

The teacher guide includes these pacing paths, plus options for written responses or the multiple-choice quiz as an alternate assessment.

(Note: All files formatted for seamless upload to your Google Drive if desired.)

Time & Tech:

Runtime: 110 minutes. Designed for before, during, and after viewing, with print and digital materials plus a Google Forms self-grading multiple-choice option.

DISCLAIMER: This product is an independently created worksheet and question set for classroom commentary and instruction. It is not affiliated with the film's creators or distributors, and it does not include the movie itself. Teachers should preview films for local policy fit.