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
Promotional poster for the Sundance Channel.
Directed by	Oxide Pang
Screenplay by	Oxide 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
Countries	Japan Thailand United Kingdom
Languages	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

External links

• The Tesseract at IMDb
• The Tesseract at Rotten Tomatoes