SUCKER PUNCH

"If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything"

Director : Zack Snyder
Stars : Emily Browning, Vanessa Hudgens, Abbie Cornish
Release : March 2011

In 1955, a 20-year-old girl nicknamed "Baby Doll" (Emily Browning) is institutionalized by her stepfather at the Lennox House for the Mentally Insane after being framed for shooting her sister. At the start of the film, her mother dies leaving the family's wealth to the daughters. The stepfather goes to Baby Doll's room and attempts to rape her, but Baby Doll fights back. He then decides to go to Baby Doll's sister's room, as Baby Doll escapes to get a gun. Her sister hides in a closet and as the stepfather kicks the door down, he sees Baby Doll point a gun at him. Baby Doll fires once, but the bullet ricochets from a light bulb and hits her sister, murdering her. Distraught, Baby Doll runs away from the scene. Her stepfather calls the police and then sends Baby Doll to be institutionalized at the Lennox House for the Mentally Insane. Blue Jones (Oscar Isaac), the asylum's orderly, is bribed by Baby Doll's stepfather into faking the signature of the asylum's main therapist, Dr. Vera Gorski (Carla Gugino) and having Baby Doll lobotomized so she can neither inform the authorities of what really happened nor reclaim her recently deceased mother's fortune.

In the five days that it'll take for the Doctor (Jon Hamm) to arrive, Baby Doll retreats to a fantasy world inside her mind, created to help her cope with the harsh reality, where she is a newly arrived dancer at a brothel owned by the mob, who befriends four other dancers - Amber (Jamie Chung), Blondie (Vanessa Hudgens), Rocket (Jena Malone) and her older sister Sweet Pea (Abbie Cornish) - and is told by her dance instructor, Madam Gorski, that her virginity will be sold to a client know as "The High Roller" by the mobster Blue, and that the man will be arriving in five days.

During one of her dance classes to prepare her for the High Roller, Baby Doll's mind travels to another fantasy world, in Feudal Japan, where she meets the Wise Man (Scott Glenn), who tells her that she can escape if she collects five items - a map, fire, a knife, a key and a fifth, unrevealed item that will require "great sacrifice" - and gives her a sword and a gun, instructing her to fight three demon samurai, which she defeats.

Back in the brothel, Baby Doll discovers that her dance has mesmerized everyone - including Blue - and convinces her friends to help her escape. The first item, the map, is in Blue's office. While he's away watching Baby Doll dancing, Sweet Pea enters his office and makes a copy of the map, but Blue finds evidence of her presence. In Baby Doll's mind, she and her friends are sent to retrieve a map in a bunker protected by Steampunk clockwork German soldiers in the battle-scarred trenches of World War I.

They then have to steal fire. Baby Doll dances for one of the brothel's patrons while Amber steals a lighter from his pocket. In Baby Doll's mind, she and her friends must enter a orc-filled castle being besieged by knights and steal two crystal lodged in the throat of a baby dragon without awakening its mother. However, they fail and are forced to battle the mother dragon in the skies before Baby Doll is able to kill it. Blue realizes that the girls are planning something and later hears Blondie (who began having second thoughts) telling Baby Doll's plan to Madam Gorski.

The girls then have to steal a knife. Baby Doll distracts the brothel's cook with her dance while Sweet Pea steals his butcher knife. While Baby Doll dances, the girls are transported to the distant future, where they have to enter a train filled with robots and disarm a bomb before it detonates and destroys a futuristic city in a distant planet. However, at the brothel, water spills on the radio producing the music that Baby Doll is dancing to and it malfunctions, allowing the cook to snap out of his trance. Back at the distant planet, one of the robots damages Rocket's jetpack and re-activates the bomb. Rocket sacrifices herself to save her sister and dies when the bomb detonates and destroys the entire city. Back at the brothel, the cook accidentally stabs and kills Rocket while trying to beat Sweet Pea.

Blue bursts in and locks Sweet Pea in a utility closet for her attempted stealing. He later takes the girls' backstage, where he shoots Blondie (for being a snitch) and Amber (to set an example). He then tries to rape Baby Doll, but she stabs him with the knife, which Amber had stolen before they left the kitchen, and escapes with his master key, which she uses to free Sweet Pea. They start a fire with the lighter and, as part of the place's anti-fire security system, the doors unlock. However, the gates are surrounded by Blue's men.

Baby Doll realizes that this is Sweet Pea's story (thus she is the fifth item), not hers, and distracts the guards, allowing Sweet Pea to escape. Suddenly, Baby Doll snaps back to the reality, where she is lobotomized by the Doctor. Blue kidnaps her and intents to rape her for stabbing him earlier, but is stopped by Dr. Gorski and the Doctor, who discovered about him faking her signature to have Baby Doll lobotomized and have called the cops. Blue is arrested and agrees to tell the police everything about Baby Doll's stepfather in exchange for a reduced sentence.

Meanwhile, Sweet Pea enters a bus in order to escape, but is approached by two suspicious policemen searching for her. The bus driver - revealed to be the Wise Man - tells them that she has been at the bus the entire day and is, therefore, not who they are looking for. After the two men leave, Sweet Pea says she doesn't have a ticket. The Wise Man says that this is no problem and drives her off into the distance. ( Wikipedia )
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