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 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).

The Tesseract (film)

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.

The Tesseract (film)

Cast

Jonathan Rhys Meyers as Sean

Saskia Reeves as Rosa

Alexander Rendell as Wit

Carlo Nanni as Roy

Lena Christenchen as Lita

External links

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

The Tesseract (film)