Movie preview: “Sucker Punch”

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March 24, 2011

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Rated: PG-13 for thematic material involving sexuality, violence and combat sequences, and for language

Running time: 2 hr

Cast: Emily Browning, Abbie Cornish, Vanessa Hudgens, Jena Malone, Carla Gugino, Jon Hamm, Jamie Chung

Plot: The story of Alice in Wonderland receives a hyper-violent makeover in “Watchmen” and “300” director Zack Snyder’s fantastical tale set in the 1950s of a young psychiatric patient who escapes into a vivid world of fantasy after being committed to a mental hospital by her abusive stepfather. Scheduled to receive a lobotomy in five days, the young patient creates a phantasmagorical alternate reality in which she must seek out five items in order to secure her freedom.

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