Butterfly Man

Butterfly Man
	Thai film poster.
Directed by	Kaprice Kea
Produced by	Tom Waller
Written by	Kaprice Kea
Starring	Stuart Laing; Napakpapha Nakprasitte
Music by	Steve Bentley-Klein
Cinematography	Mark Duffield
Edited by	Atisthan Sangawut; William Watts
Distributed by	De Warenne Pictures; GMM Grammy
Release date	6 December 2002 (Thailand)
Running time	95 minutes
Country	Thailand/UK
Language	English

Butterfly Man (Thai: ผีเสื้อร้อนรัก) is a 2002 Thai-British adventure-romantic drama film directed and written by Kaprice Kea and starring Stuart Laing and Napakpapha Nakprasitte.[1]

Plot

Napakpapha Nakprasitte as Em.

Adam, an English backpacker, breaks up with his girlfriend immediately after arriving with her in Thailand. He then strikes out on his own, leaving Bangkok for Ko Samui. There, he meets Em, a young masseuse. At first, their relationship is innocent, but Adam soon grows frustrated and starts hitting the bars and becoming a sex tourist, or "butterfly man", flirting from woman to woman. Meanwhile, the ugly side of Samui starts to reveal itself, with a human trafficking, slavery, and prostitution ring, run by British mafia exposed. Adam gets in trouble with the British mafia. Em helps him get away, so the British mafia beats her severely. Adam manages to escape via small boat, taking Em with him. They get married on the boat but then Em dies. He keeps his promise to take her body to her home village and ends up staying in Thailand.

Cast

Stuart Laing as Adam
Napakpapha Nakprasitte as Em
Francis Magee as Joey
Carl Henry Exantus as Michael
Gavan O'Herlihy as Bill Kincaid
Abigail Good as No Name
Vasa Vatcharayon as Noi
Kirsty Mitchell as Kate

gollark: Some people somehow wrote something like six pages and I don't know how.

gollark: We had to do two essays in two hours for an English mock exam, which was very unpleasant.

gollark: When I have to write essays, I generally just end up procrastinating for ages, then slowly getting at least vaguely sensible stuff written until I get something vaguely near the word count.

gollark: Oh, you mean coming up with actual text to write, not handwriting.

gollark: Even non-cursive is annoying.

References

Smith, Neil (20 November 2002). "Butterfly Man (2002)". BBC.

External links

Butterfly Man on IMDb
Butterfly Man at AllMovie

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[1] Smith, Neil (20 November 2002). "Butterfly Man (2002)". BBC.