Themes: Femmes Fatales, Cons and Scams, Assumed Identities
Main Cast: Antonio Banderas, Angelina Jolie, Thomas Jane, Jack Thompson, Gregory Itzin
Release Year: 2001
Country: US
Run Time: 112 minutes
MPAA Rating: R
Plot
A lonely man's search for companionship soon takes him to dangerous and unexpected places in this erotically charged drama. Luis Antonio Vargas (Antonio Banderas) is a successful coffee salesman living in Cuba in the 1880s. Luis has had little luck finding love among the women of his native island, and he sends away to America for a mail-order bride. To his pleasant surprise, his fiancée from the United States, Julia Russell (Angelina Jolie), turns out to be not only beautiful but passionate and devoted. But Luis' happiness proves to be short-lived when he learns that Julia is not the person he imagined her to be, and detective Walter Downs (Thomas Jane) appears, trying to get to the bottom of Julia's mysterious past and possibly deadly secrets. Original Sin is based on the novel Waltz Into Darkness by Cornell Woolrich, which Francois Truffaut previously adapted for the screen as La Sirene du Mississippi. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
Allison Mackie - Augusta Jordan; John Pringle - Sara; Cordelia Richards - Emily Russell; James Haven - Faust (Stage); Pedro Armendariz, Jr. - Jorge Cortés; M. Martinez - Cuban Priest; Harry Porter - Stage Manager; Fernando Torre Lapham - Wedding Priest; Shaula Vega - Dressmaker Girl; Lisa Owen - Margareta (Stage); Daniel Martinez - Rafael; Farnesio DeBernal - Bank Clerk; Nitzi Arellano - Prostitute; Roger Cudney - Ship's Captain; Adrián Makala - Ship's Waiter; Francis Laboriel - Ship's Stewardess; Patricio Castilla - French Dining Steward; Derek Rojo - Bell Boy; Abraham Stavans - Mr. Gutiérrez; Roberto Medina - Card Player; Julian Sedgwick - Card Player; Alejandro Corp - Card Player; Alejandro Reza - Train Station Man; Guy de Saint Cyr - Chief Jailer; Julio Bracho - Guard; George Belanger - Gentlemen in Morocco; Osami Kawano - Gentlemen in Morocco
Credit
Jorge Sainz - Art Director, Junie Lowry-Johnson - Casting, Libby Goldstein - Casting, Edward L. McDonnell - Co-producer, Donna Zakowska - Costume Designer, Mary Ellen Woods - First Assistant Director, Michael Cristofer - Director, Eric Sears - Editor, Ashok Amritraj - Executive Producer, David Hoberman - Executive Producer, Sheldon Abend - Executive Producer, Terence Blanchard - Composer (Music Score), David James Bomba - Production Designer, Rodrigo Prieto - Cinematographer, Denise Di Novi - Producer, Kate Guinzburg - Producer, Antonio Betancourt - Sound/Sound Designer, Michael Cristofer - Screenwriter, Cornell Woolrich - Book Author, Howard A. Anderson Company - Title Design
