The Tesseract (film)
The Tesseract, is a 2003 thriller film directed by Oxide Pang and starring Jonathan Rhys-Meyers. It is based on the 1998 novel of the same name by Alex Garland.
| The Tesseract | |
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 Promotional poster for the Sundance Channel. | |
| Directed by | Oxide Pang |
| Produced by | Takashi Kusube Naoki Kai Soo-Jun Bae Jun Hara Koichi Shibuya |
| Screenplay by | Oxide Pang Patrick Neate |
| Based on | The Tesseract by Alex Garland |
| Starring | Jonathan Rhys-Meyers Saskia Reeves |
| Music by | James Iha |
| Cinematography | Decha Srimantra |
| Edited by | Oxide Pang Piyapan Chooppetch |
| Distributed by | Momentum Pictures |
Running time | 92 minutes |
| Country | Japan Thailand United Kingdom |
| Language | English Thai |
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
- Jonathan Rhys Meyers as Sean
- Saskia Reeves as Rosa
- Alexander Rendell as Wit
- Carlo Nanni as Roy
- Lena Christenchen as Lita