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MPAA Rating: R Content Advisory: Violence, Nudity, Strong Sexual Content, Not For Children Movie Release: 2001 DVD Release: 03/26/2002 Format: DVD - Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV,Pan and Scan Audio Tracks: English, French, Spanish Subtitles: English, French, Spanish SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 56 mins Studio: MGM Total Copies: 35 Genres: Drama, Period Film, Erotic Drama, Crime Drama, Romantic Mystery See Also: Original Sin [Unrated Edition]

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 François Truffaut previously adapted for the screen as La Sirene du Mississippi. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

Antonio Banderas - Luis Antonio Vargas
Angelina Jolie - Julia Russell
Thomas Jane - Walter Downs
Jack Thompson - Alan Jordan
Gregory Itzin - Colonel Worth

Antonio Banderas and Angelina Jolie steam up the screen in Michael Cristofer's Original Sin, which comes to DVD with a pair of transfers. The widescreen anamorphic transfer preserves the original theatrical aspect ratio of 2.35:1 and is preferable to the standard full-frame transfer. A closed-captioned English soundtrack is rendered in Dolby Digital 5.1, while French and Spanish soundtracks have been recorded in Dolby Digital Surround. Subtitles are accessible in all three of those languages. There are no supplemental materials of any consequence. This is a solid release from MGM/UA. It should be noted that an unrated version of the film with a handful of extra materials is available, but anyone looking for just the film will be happy with this title. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide