Sucker Punch (2011 film)

Sucker Punch is a 2011 American fantasy action film directed by Zack Snyder and cowritten by him and Steve Shibuya. It is Snyders first film based on an original concept. The film stars Emily Browning, as a young woman who is committed to a mental institution. In order to cope, she envisions the asylum as a brothel and teams up with four dancersprisoners to escape before she undergoes a lobotomy. As she collects the items she needs to escape, she enters another level of fantasy, in which the women become strong, experienced warriors.

In the 1960s, a young woman nicknamed Babydoll Emily Browning is institutionalized by her abusive widowed stepfather Gerard Plunkett at the Lennox House for the Mentally Insane after she is blamed for the death of her younger sister. The stepfather bribes Blue Jones Oscar Isaac, an asylum orderly, into forging the signature of the asylums psychiatrist, Dr. Vera Gorski Carla Gugino, to have Babydoll lobotomized so she cannot inform the authorities of the true circumstances leading to her sisters death. During her admission to the institution, Babydoll takes note of four items that she would need to attempt an escape.Babydoll slips into a fantasy world in which she is newly arrived in a brothel owned by Blue, whom she envisions as a mobster, where she and the other patients are sex slaves. In this realm, she befriends four other dancers Amber Jamie Chung, Blondie Vanessa Hudgens, Rocket Jena Malone, and Rockets sister and star of the show, Sweet Pea Abbie Cornish. Dr. Gorski is envisioned as the girls dance instructor. Blue informs Babydoll that her virginity will be sold to a client known as the High Roller Jon Hamm, who is actually the doctor scheduled to perform the lobotomy. Gorski encourages Babydoll to perform an erotic dance, during which Babydoll further fantasizes she is in feudal Japan, meeting the Wise Man Scott Glenn. After she expresses her desire to escape, the Wise Man presents Babydoll with weapons and tells her that she would need to collect five items a map, fire, a knife, a key, and a fifth, unrevealed item that would require a deep sacrifice but bring a perfect victory. She then fights three samurai giants. As her fantasy ends, she finds herself back in the brothel, her dance having impressed Blue and other onlookers. ........

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