The Tesseract (film)
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The Tesseract | |
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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 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.
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
[edit]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
[edit]- Jonathan Rhys Meyers as Sean
- Saskia Reeves as Rosa
- Alexander Rendell as Wit
- Carlo Nanni as Roy
- Lena Christenchen as Lita
References
[edit]- ^ Rooney, David (23 September 2003). "The Tesseract". Variety. Retrieved 5 February 2024.
External links
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- 2003 films
- 2003 crime thriller films
- 2003 psychological thriller films
- Films based on British novels
- Films directed by Oxide Pang
- Japanese thriller films
- Thai thriller films
- British thriller films
- Thai-language films
- Films set in Bangkok
- 2000s English-language films
- 2000s British films
- 2000s Japanese films
- 2000s Thai films
- Thai film stubs
- Crime thriller film stubs