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Sucker Punch (2011)

Sucker Punch poster
Directed by
Zack Snyder
Genre
fantasy film, action film, girls with guns, thriller film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 50m
Rated
PG-13
Rating
6.2 of 10 from 5,122 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A young woman named Babydoll is put in a mental institution and plans an escape. To do so she has to collect specific items, which leads her into fantasy worlds where she and the other inmates become powerful fighters.

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What happens

Sucker Punch is a 2011 fantasy action film directed by Zack Snyder and co-written by Snyder and Steve Shibuya. It is Snyder's first film based on an original concept. The film stars Emily Browning as "Babydoll", a young woman who is committed to a mental institution. As she collects items she needs to escape, she enters a series of fantasy worlds where she and her fellow inmates are strong, experienced warriors. Abbie Cornish, Jena Malone, Vanessa Hudgens, Jamie Chung, Carla Gugino, Oscar Isaac and Scott Glenn also star. The film was released in both conventional and IMAX theatres in the United States on March 25, 2011. The film received generally negative reviews and underperformed at the box office, grossing $89.8 million against its $75–$82 million production budget. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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