The Tesseract (film)

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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 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).