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Mar 25, 2011 · Sucker Punch: Directed by Zack Snyder. With Emily Browning, Abbie Cornish, Jena Malone, Vanessa Hudgens. A young girl institutionalized by her abusive stepfather retreats to an alternative reality as a coping strategy and envisions a plan to help her escape.
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- Action, Adventure, Fantasy
- Zack Snyder
- 2011-03-25
Zack Snyder’s 2011 film Sucker Punch was pretty divisive among critics and fans, but it did give a big career boost to actress Emily Browning, who played the character only known as...
FILM DESCRIPTION:In the 1960s, a young woman nicknamed Babydoll is framed for killing her younger sister, who was actually murdered by their abusive stepfath...
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A young woman named Babydoll accidentally shoots her sister in a struggle with their abusive stepfather. The stepfather had murdered their mother and discovered that she left everything to her daughters in her will; he commits her to a hospital for the mentally insane and bribes orderly Blue Jones to forge psychiatrist Vera Gorski's signature, to h...
Development
Sucker Punch is described by Snyder as "Alice in Wonderland with machine guns". The film first gained attention in March 2007. Snyder put the project aside to work on Watchmen first. The film was co-written with Steve Shibuya, who authored the original script on which the story is based. Snyder directed and produced with his wife and producing partner, Deborah Snyder, through their Cruel and Unusual Filmsbanner. Wesley Coller served as executive producer. Warner Bros. announced in early 2009...
Casting
Before casting started in March 2009, Snyder revealed his ideal cast for the feature film. He chose to go with an all-female cast in this film saying that "I already did the all-male cast with 300, so I'm doing the opposite end of the spectrum." Snyder had tapped Amanda Seyfried first for the lead role, Babydoll. When asked if Seyfried was up for the role, Snyder said, "We'll see. We're trying to, so ... She's great. It would be great if it worked out". Snyder had also offered roles to Abbie...
Training
Prior to filming, the cast had twelve weeks of training and fight evaluations, beginning in June 2009 in Los Angeles and continuing through filming. The leads in the film were trained to deadlift up to 250 pounds (110 kg) for their roles. Damon Caro, the stunt coordinator and fight choreographer from 300 and Watchmen, Snyder's previous films, was hired for the action design, stunt training and fight choreography for the movie. The other cast members started training without Hudgens while she...
Marketing
Sucker Punch participated in the Comic-Con 2010 and showed the first footage of the film, featuring the songs "Prologue" by Immediate Music and "The Crablouse" by Lords of Acid. The trailer was released on July 27 on Apple Trailers. The second official trailer was released on November 3 and was attached to Due Date, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1, and Black Swan. On February 15, Titan Books released the official Art of the Filmbook full of pictures, to mark the film's release i...
Home media
Sucker Punch was released on DVD and in a Blu-ray combo pack on June 28, 2011. The film reached #1 best-selling DVD for four weeks in a row, selling over a million copies in America on its premiere day. An R-rated extended cut was included on the Blu-ray release, which adds 18 minutes to the film.The bonus features include four animated shorts based on the four fantasy scenarios.
Unreleased director's cut
Snyder has stated that the extended cut of Sucker Punch isn't his desired version of the film, but complications over film rights make it uncertain as to whether or not his director's cut could ever be released.He still plans to release it as of 2024.
Box office
Sucker Punch grossed $19,058,199 in its first weekend, an opening that placed it second behind Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules. It also opened in 23 markets that weekend, standing at sixth in the overseas box office with $6.5 million. The following weekend, it dropped to seventh place in North America with $6 million, but fared better overseas, where an expansion to 16 more countries led to a $11.5 million gross which topped the international ranking. Sucker Puncheventually grossed $36,39...
Critical response
Review aggregate website Rotten Tomatoes reports that 22% of 218 critics have given Sucker Punch a positive review, with an average rating of 4.2/10. The site's critics consensus reads: "It's technically impressive and loaded with eye-catching images, but without characters or a plot to support them, all of Sucker Punch's visual thrills are for naught." Metacritic assigned the film a weighted average score of 33 out of 100, based on 29 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews". Audi...
Depiction of women
Sucker Punch also drew criticism for its depiction of women. Several critics described the film as misogynistic and others expressed concern over its treatment of sexual violence. Monika Bartyzel of Moviefone writes: "The women of Zack Snyder's Sucker Punch are not empowered. Though they are given vicious snarls, swords and guns, the leading ladies of Snyder's latest are nothing more than cinematic figures of enslavement given only the most minimal fight. Their rebellion is one of imaginative...
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Mar 24, 2011 · "Sucker Punch" star Emily Browning, who plays Baby Doll in director Zack Snyder's upcoming film, is not a happy camper. She got to do what almost every woman in the world would kill to do:...
78 Videos. 99+ Photos. Australian actress Emily Browning was born in 1988 in Melbourne, Australia, to Shelley and Andrew Browning. She has two younger brothers. Her start in acting came after a classmate's father, involved in the acting business, noticed her "acting all ditsy" in a school play.
