ORIGINAL SIN

Year: 2001
USA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
UK: Twentieth Century Fox
Cast: Antonio Banderas, Angelina Jolie, Thomas Jane, Joan Pringle, Allison Mackie, Pedro Armendariz Jr, James Haven, Gregory Itzin, Cordelia Richards, Julian Sedgwick, Jack Thompson
Director: Michael Cristofer
Country: USA
USA & UK: 116 mins
USA Rated: R for strong sexual content and some violence
UK Certificate: 18 contains infrequent strong sex and moderate violence
USA Release Date: 3 August 2001
UK Release Date: 5 October 2001


Synopsis

ORIGINAL SIN is the story about the dangerous and sometimes lethal, obsessional power of love and lust. A period mystery set in the late 1800s on the island of Cuba, Luis Antonio Vargas (Antonio Banderas) is a wealthy, successful coffee merchant. He arranges to be married through the post and goes to meet his bride Julia Russell (Angelina Jolie) at the docks. She is anything but the simple woman he was expecting but becomes happier beyond all of his expectations until he discovers that she is an impostor with her eye firmly fixed on his fortune.