Code 46

Rating: 6.3 out of 10 (5449) Year: 2003 Copyright: © 2003 Revolutions Films Limited/BBC/UK Film Council (on print)	Actors: Tim Robbins (William Geld) Samantha Morton (Maria Gonzales) Togo Igawa (Driver) Nabil Elouhabi (Vendor) Sarah Backhouse (Weather Girl) Jonathan Ibbotson (Boxer) Natalie Jackson Mendoza (Sphinx Receptionist) Om Puri (Bahkland) Emil Marwa (Mohan) Nina Fog (Wole) Bruno Lastra (Bikku) Christopher Simpson (Paul) Lien Nguyin (Singer in Nightclub) David Fahm (Damian Alekan) Mick Jones (Himself) Directed by: Michael Winterbottom
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Taglines: How do you solve a crime when the last thing you want to know is the truth? Can you miss someone you don't remember? Can a single moment ever disappear completely?
Plot Summary: Code 46 is a love story set in a Brave New World-type near-future where cities are heavily controlled and only accessible through checkpoints. People cannot travel unless they have "papelles," a special travel permit issued by the totalitarianistic government, the "Sphinx". Outside these cities, the desert has taken over and shanty towns are jammed with non-citizens - people without papelles forced to live primitive lives. William is a family man who works as a government investigator. When he is sent to Shanghai to solve a case of fake papelles, he meets a woman named Maria. Although he realizes she is behind the forgeries, he cannot help but fall completely in love with her. He hides her crime and they have a wild, passionate affair that can only last as long as his papelles: 24 hours. Back home, William is obessed with the memory of Maria. When the original investigation is inevitably re-opened a week later and William is sent back to finish the work he started, he tracks her down, only to discover she has been accused of a Code 46 violation and any further relationship is impossible.