Cast:

Emily Browning ~ Babydoll
Vanessa Hudgens ~ Blondie
Abbie Cornish ~ Sweet Pea
Jamie Chung ~ Amber
Jena Malone ~ Rocket
Carla Gugino ~ Madam Gorski
Jon Hamm ~ High Roller
Scott Glenn ~ The Wiseman
Oscar Isaac
Ryan Robbins
Gerard Plunkett ~ The Stepfather / Father O’Rourke
Michael Jai White
Godfrey Pascual

Plot:

Set in the 1950s, it tells the story of Baby Doll (Browning), who is trying to hide from the pain caused by her evil stepfather and lobotomy. She ends up in mental institution in Brattleboro, Vermont and while there she starts to imagine an alternate reality. She plans to escape from that imaginary world but to do that she needs to steal five objects before she is captured by an unknown adversary. She has 5 days to escape before being lobotomized. In order to cope with the situation, she enters the hyper-real world of her imagination, and the lines between reality and dream begin to blur. She is joined with friends who are inmates from the institution. Lessons learned in the said fantasy world could help the girls escape their real-world fate.

Training:

Prior to filming, the cast had trainings and fight evaluations. Training lasted for 12 weeks. It started last June 2009 in Los Angeles and continued through filming. The main girls in the film were told to lift 210 pounds weight for their roles. The stunt coordinators in 300, Snyder’s previous film were also hired for the stunts in the movie. The other cast members started training without Hudgens while she was filming another film, Beastly. Snyder tells that when the girls are fighting, “[like] they’re on their way to kill a baby dragon, they’ve killed all of these orc-like creatures and they’re entering a door [and] it’s this classic, real Navy SEAL style room clearing. They have machine guns but they’re fighting mythic creatures, impossible creatures. The hand to hand stuff is all brutal, because Damon [Caro] did all the [fights] in Bourne and it has that vibe to it.” In the characters’ imaginations, Snyder remarks that “they can do anything.”

Abbie Cornish reveals that the rest of them are doing trainings, prior to filming, five days a week in six hours a day, and were oriented with martial fighting, swords and choreography. And in the afternoon, they conduct their training sessions. 87eleven, famous for choreographing stunts from films like 300 and the Bourne film series, have worked with Snyder again for Sucker Punch as they previously worked on Snyder’s past films.