The Tesseract (film)

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The Tesseract
Promotional poster for the Sundance Channel.
Directed by	Oxide Pang
Produced by	Takashi Kusube Naoki Kai Soo-Jun Bae Jun Hara Koichi Shibuya
Written by	Alex Garland (novel) Oxide Pang Patrick Neate
Starring	Jonathan Rhys-Meyers Saskia Reeves
Cinematography	Deecha Seemanta
Editing by	Oxide Pang Piyapan Chooppetch
Distributed by	Momentum Pictures
Running time	92 mins
Country	Japan/Thailand/UK
Language	English/Thai
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The Tesseract, is a 2003 drama film starring Jonathan Rhys-Meyers. Based on a novel by Alex Garland, it is directed by Oxide Pang.

The film examines four seemingly unconnected lives brought together through a theft in a Bangkok hotel room. The interactions of an English drug dealer, a British 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 (ie the butterfly effect).

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Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Sean, a runner for a drug gang, has checked in 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. In the room below Rosa 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.