Sucker Punch is a 2011 action fantasy film, directed by Zack Snyder and co-written by him and Steve Shibuya. It is Snyder's first film based on an original script. The film stars Emily Browning, Abbie Cornish, Jena Malone, Vanessa Hudgens, Jamie Chung, and Carla Gugino. The storyline follows the fantasies of a young woman who is committed to a mental institution, as she makes a plan to escape the hospital before suffering a lobotomy. The film was released in both conventional and IMAX theatres in the United States at midnight on March 25, 2011. Between the late 50s and the early 60s, a... 20-year-old girl nicknamed "Babydoll" , is institutionalized by her stepfather at the Lennox House for the Mentally Insane after she is blamed for the death of her younger sister. The stepfather bribes Blue Jones , one of the asylum's orderlies, into forging the signature of the asylum's psychiatrist, Dr. Vera Gorski , to have Babydoll lobotomized so she cannot inform the authorities of the true circumstances leading to her sister's death.
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| Release date: | March 23, 2011 |
| Directed by: | Zack Snyder |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 110 Minutes |
| Producer: | Deborah Snyder, Zack Snyder |
| Editor: | William Hoy |
| Music by: | Tyler Bates, Marius de Vries |
| Cinematography: | Larry Fong |
| Screenplay by: | Zack Snyder, Steve Shibuya |
| Estimated budget: | $82,000,000 |
| Genre: | Fantasy, Action, Thriller, Comedy |