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A young man falls obsessively in love with a mysterious woman who is as obsessed with his fortune as she is with him.
Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: R
Release Date: 30-JUL-2002
Media Type: DVD
Original Sin belongs in the "so bad it's good" category of languid potboilers, offering enough nudity, sexual chemistry, and far-fetched plotting to make it an enjoyable lazy-day diversion. Based on Cornell Woolrich's novel Waltz into Darkness (previous filmed by François Truffaut as Mississippi Mermaid) and set in turn-of-the-century Cuba, the film traces a tailspin of amorous obsession when coffee plantation owner Luis (A
A young man falls obsessively in love with a mysterious woman who is as obsessed with his fortune as she is with him.
Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: R
Release Date: 30-JUL-2002
Media Type: DVD
Original Sin belongs in the "so bad it's good" category of languid potboilers, offering enough nudity, sexual chemistry, and far-fetched plotting to make it an enjoyable lazy-day diversion. Based on Cornell Woolrich's novel Waltz into Darkness (previous filmed by François Truffaut as Mississippi Mermaid) and set in turn-of-the-century Cuba, the film traces a tailspin of amorous obsession when coffee plantation owner Luis (Antonio Banderas) discovers that his American mail-order bride (Angelina Jolie) is not the plain wife he'd expected, but a beautiful, scheming thief who's after his fortune. The movie asserts that love is truly blind, but absurd twists of plot make Luis appear more stupid than passionate. Writer-director Michael Cristofer fared better with Jolie in Gia; here, he's made another good-looking film about beautiful people, but its plot just can't be taken seriously. --Jeff Shannon
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Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Release date: 26 March 2002
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 9780792851493 UPC: 027616861498
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