Code 46 Movie Review 2003

Stylish, sci-fi noir explores the not-too-distant future where, in order to travel from city to cloistered city, people need "papelles," a combination visa, passport and genetic ID code. Evidently, excessive cloning has led to DNA protected zones that require strict policing. Robbins is William Geld, an investigator who has been infected with an empathy virus that enables him to read minds. Geld is tracking forged papelles, which leads him to Shanghai and the suspect Maria (Morton), a Shanghai factory worker. Geld, however falls for Maria and they enter into an intense love affair. Some provocative ideas and good premise are compromised by lack of chemistry between Robbins and Morton.

Distribution

MGM Home Entertainment, 2500 Broadway, Santa Monica, CA 90404-6061, Phone: (310)449-3000, Fax: (310)449-3100, URL: http://www.mgmhomevideo.com, Remarks: Does not handle retail queries from consumers; contact your local video distributor.

Available on DVD
Running time 92 minutes.
Originally from British.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Romantic Drama, Insurance, Immigration, Sci Fi, Negative Utopia

Screenplay

Frank Cottrell-Boyce

Cast

Tim Robbins, Samantha Morton, Jeanne Balibar, Om Puri, Essie Davis, Shelley King, David Fahm

Cinematography

Alwin Kuchler, Marcel Zyskind

Director

Michael Winterbottom

Music

David Holmes

Other

Joachim Sundstrom, Peter Christelis, Denis Schnegg, Natalie Ward, Mark Tildesley

Producer

Andrew Eaton, Revolution Films, BBC Films, U.K. Film Council, United Artists