The Tesseract (film)

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The Tesseract
The Tesseract movie poster.jpg
Promotional poster for the Sundance Channel.
Directed by Oxide Pang
Screenplay byOxide Pang
Patrick Neate
Based on The Tesseract
by Alex Garland
Produced by Takashi Kusube
Naoki Kai Soo-Jun Bae
Jun Hara Koichi Shibuya
Starring Jonathan Rhys-Meyers
Saskia Reeves
Cinematography Decha Srimantra
Edited by Oxide Pang
Piyapan Chooppetch
Music by James Iha
Distributed by Momentum Pictures
Running time
92 minutes
CountriesJapan
Thailand
United Kingdom
LanguagesEnglish
Thai

The Tesseract is a 2003 thriller film directed by Oxide Pang and starring Jonathan Rhys-Meyers. [1] It is based on the 1998 novel of the same name by Alex Garland.

Contents

The film examines four seemingly unconnected lives brought together through a theft in a Bangkok hotel room (unlike the novel which is set in Manila). The interactions of an English drug dealer, an English psychologist, a Thai assassin, and an abused 13-year-old boy demonstrate that life is so complex that even the smallest events can have enormous, even fatal consequences (i.e. the butterfly effect).

Plot

Sean, a runner for a drug gang, has checked into room 303 at the seedy, rundown Heaven Hotel in Bangkok, to await arrival of a package of heroin. Another guest is Rosa, psychologist who is researching slum children, on the floor below (room 202). In the next room, 203, is Lita, a female assassin who is waiting to intercept the package Sean is waiting for. Tying them all together, is the 13-year-old bellboy, Wit, a streetwise, light-fingered kid.

Cast


  1. Rooney, David (23 September 2003). "The Tesseract". Variety . Retrieved 5 February 2024.

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