Sucker Punch is a 2011 action
-fantasy
thriller 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 starsEmily Browning
, Abbie Cornish
, Jena Malone
, Vanessa Hudgens
, Jamie Chung
, and Oscar Isaac
. 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
