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''Original Sin'' is a 2001 [[EroticFilm erotic thriller film]] directed by Michael Cristofer and starring Creator/AntonioBanderas and Creator/AngelinaJolie. It is a remake of the 1969 Creator/FrancoisTruffaut film ''Film/MississippiMermaid'', which starred Creator/CatherineDeneuve and Creator/JeanPaulBelmondo.

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''Original Sin'' is a 2001 [[EroticFilm erotic thriller film]] directed by Michael Cristofer Creator/MichaelCristofer and starring Creator/AntonioBanderas and Creator/AngelinaJolie. It is a remake of the 1969 Creator/FrancoisTruffaut film ''Film/MississippiMermaid'', which starred Creator/CatherineDeneuve and Creator/JeanPaulBelmondo.
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''Original Sin'' is a 2001 [[EroticFilm erotic thriller film]] directed by Michael Cristofer and starring Creator/AntonioBanderas and Creator/AngelinaJolie. It is a remake of the 1969 Creator/FrancoisTruffaut film ''Mississippi Mermaid'', which starred Creator/CatherineDeneuve and Creator/JeanPaulBelmondo.

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''Original Sin'' is a 2001 [[EroticFilm erotic thriller film]] directed by Michael Cristofer and starring Creator/AntonioBanderas and Creator/AngelinaJolie. It is a remake of the 1969 Creator/FrancoisTruffaut film ''Mississippi Mermaid'', ''Film/MississippiMermaid'', which starred Creator/CatherineDeneuve and Creator/JeanPaulBelmondo.
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''Original Sin'' is a 2001 [[EroticFilm erotic thriller film]] directed by Michael Cristofer and starring Creator/AntonioBanderas and Creator/AngelinaJolie. It is a remake of the 1969 Creator/FrancoisTruffaut film ''Mississippi Mermaid'', that starred Creator/CatherineDeneuve and Creator/JeanPaulBelmondo.

In the late 19th century Cuba during the Spanish rule, Luis Vargas (Banderas), a wealthy Cuban businessman, invites American Julia Russell (Jolie) to sail to his country to be his bride. When Julia arrives, she looks nothing like the photos she's sent prior to her voyage. Her justification is that she wants more than a man who is interested in a pretty face, and that's why she's sent pictures of a plain-looking woman in place of her own picture. Given that Luis had also been misleading her into believing he's a poor working man instead of the rich owner of a coffee company, he accepts her explanation, and they wed within hours of her setting foot in Cuba. Luis falls passionately in love with his new wife. However, when Luis discovers Julia has run off with nearly all of his fortune, his fears of her being an impostor seem to become true, and he teams up with a detective, Walter Downs (Creator/ThomasJane), to find her. But there seems to be more than meets the eye...

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''Original Sin'' is a 2001 [[EroticFilm erotic thriller film]] directed by Michael Cristofer and starring Creator/AntonioBanderas and Creator/AngelinaJolie. It is a remake of the 1969 Creator/FrancoisTruffaut film ''Mississippi Mermaid'', that which starred Creator/CatherineDeneuve and Creator/JeanPaulBelmondo.

In the late 19th century late-19th-century Cuba during the Spanish rule, Luis Vargas (Banderas), a wealthy Cuban businessman, invites American Julia Russell (Jolie) to sail to his country to be his bride. When Julia arrives, she looks nothing like the photos she's sent prior to her voyage. Her justification is that she wants more than a man who is interested in a pretty face, and that's why she's sent pictures of a plain-looking woman in place of her own picture. Given that Luis had also been misleading her into believing he's a poor working man instead of the rich owner of a coffee company, he accepts her explanation, and they wed within hours of her setting foot in Cuba. Luis falls passionately in love with his new wife. However, when Luis discovers Julia has run off with nearly all of his fortune, his fears of her being an impostor seem to become true, and he teams up with a detective, Walter Downs (Creator/ThomasJane), to find her. But there seems to be more than meets the eye...eye...
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''Original Sin'' is a 2001 [[EroticFilm erotic thriller film]] directed by Michael Cristofer and starring Creator/AntonioBanderas and Creator/AngelinaJolie. It is a remake of the 1969 Creator/FrancoisTruffaut film ''Mississippi Mermaid'', that starred Creator/CatherineDeneuve and Creator/JeanPaulBelmondo.

In the late 19th century Cuba during the Spanish rule, Luis Vargas (Banderas), a wealthy Cuban businessman, invites American Julia Russell (Jolie) to sail to his country to be his bride. When Julia arrives, she looks nothing like the photos she's sent prior to her voyage. Her justification is that she wants more than a man who is interested in a pretty face, and that's why she's sent pictures of a plain-looking woman in place of her own picture. Given that Luis had also been misleading her into believing he's a poor working man instead of the rich owner of a coffee company, he accepts her explanation, and they wed within hours of her setting foot in Cuba. Luis falls passionately in love with his new wife. However, when Luis discovers Julia has run off with nearly all of his fortune, his fears of her being an impostor seem to become true, and he teams up with a detective, Walter Downs (Creator/ThomasJane), to find her. But there seems to be more than meets the eye...
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!!This film contains examples of:
* CallBack: [[spoiler: When Luis first discovers that Julia is working for Walter, a fight breaks out and Luis shoots him, but the minute he leaves, Walter gets to his feet; he had loaded the gun with blanks. At the climax, they have a similar encounter, but this time the bullets are very real]].
* DetectiveMole: [[spoiler: Walter Downs, the detective who investigated Julia, told Luis that she may be working with someone. He was said someone all along]].
* DisguisedInDrag: [[spoiler: At the end, Julia escapes from prison (and her scheduled execution) by convincing the priest to whom she told the story of the movie to dress up in her clothing]].
* FourthDateMarriage: Luis and Julia wed within hours of her setting foot in Cuba, having known each other only through correspondence beforehand.
* HowWeGotHere: The movie opens with Julia awaiting her execution by garrote while telling the events of the movie to a priest.
* InLoveWithTheMark: A variation. Julia was sent by [[spoiler: Walter]] to take Luis' fortune, but ended up falling in love for real with him.
* ManipulativeBastard: [[spoiler: After they're revealed to be working together, it becomes pretty clear that Walter has too much control over Julia, and that he takes a sadistic pleasure in forcing himself on her]].
* MrFanservice: Antonio Banderas gets naked. There's even some Thomas Jane action.
* MsFanservice: And of course, Angelina Jolie gets to be without clothes.
* {{Mouthscreen}}: The first shot in the film is of Julia's lips.
* PoisonedChaliceSwitcheroo: Played for drama. [[spoiler: Luis doesn't care that Julia put poison in his drink, reveals he knows of the plan, confesses his love for her once more and swallows the poisoned drink. He gets better, though]].
* SecretlyWealthy: Luis told Julia that he's a poor working man, instead of the rich owner of a coffee company, as a SecretTestOfCharacter. It's the reason why he believes Julia when she tells him that her looking nothing like the photos he got was part of a Secret Test of Character of her own, [[spoiler: which actually wasn't]].
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