Sabrina

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Summary: A great movie for hopeless romantics.
Review: Even though it is a remake of an older movie every time you watch it seems like the first. The story is magnificent and inspiring. It lets you know that everyone, no matter how many things go wrong for you, can make it in the world today. Just on a side note it also made me want to visit Paris.

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Summary: A must see for anyone!
Review: I love this movie! I like it when Harrison Ford takes the Concorde and beats Sabrina (who is already on a regular airplane, bound for Paris) to Paris where they meet and the movie ends.

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Summary: A Mesmerizing Original
Review: I've seen both versions and the 1995 version by far is better than the 1950's version. Julia Ormand is mesmerizing as Sabrina Fairchild. I really love this movie. I prefer to watch the widescreen version on laser disc. Greg Kinnear does a very good job as David (probably his best role). It is unbelievable how much Julia Ormand changes from the time she leaves to go to Paris and then returns home, she's like a different person. This movie should be seen by every movie lover.

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Summary: An awesome story of a business deal turned love affair
Review: I love this movie! Julia Ormond is beautiful and talented, and her metamorphis from the shy daughter of a chauffer into a lovely young women is truly fun to watch. Harrison Ford is great in the role of Linus Larrabee, who fakes being in love with Ormond for business purposes and then unwillingly finds himself involved in the real thing. He is the character that all the audience starts out hating and ends up rooting for. Greg Kinnear does a good job of the playboy younger brother, and adds some comedy to this romance. The movie has some unexpected twists and the ending is everything you hope for but not what you expect. The scenery and filming is beautiful- especially the views of Paris and the Larrabee estate. Julia Ormond has the perfect voice for the beginning narration. All in all, this movie is my favorite!

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Summary: nice try--but i prefer the original
Review: this movie is a remake of the original classic sabrina starring audrey hepburn --humphrey bogart--and bill holden---this movie has julia ormand in the title role of sabrina ---ormand is a good actress and does a nice job but audrey hepburn was magical--harrison ford does a nice job potraying the humphrey bogart character of linus larrabee--the elder larrabee brother who plots to separate sabrina from his younger brother portrayed by david kinnear---he does an outstanding job with his role of the younger larrabee brother david originally portrayed by william holden---this was not a bad movie but as soon as it was over i went and pulled out my copy of the original sabrina movie and watched it--to me sabrina will always be audrey hepburn---

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Summary: This version of "Sabrina" was superbly done.
Review: The rendition of 1954's "Sabrina" was magnificently done! Sydney Pollack is an obviously superb director because the entire movie was wonderful--the enhanced script, the locations, and especially, the cast. Julia Ormond gave an outstanding encore to Hepburn's performance. She graced the character with such a serene and open-hearted presence that made her an absolute pleasure to watch. Harrison Ford was simply phenomenal as Linus Larrabee. He enhanced his character with what I call "Ford Finesse"--refined charisma and strength. His performance was fluid and his sensuality is always worth watching over and over again! Greg Kinnear also did a magnificent job as David Larrabee. He moved into his character with ease and brought such comic relief throughtout the movie that you'll want to rewind some parts over and over! I thoroughly enjoyed this movie! In fact, if you watch it without comparing it to the original, you want to watch this one over and over again!

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Summary: Great!
Review: I love this movie! dont listen to any other newspaper critic because i think this is the sweetest movie of all time. harrison ford is a fantastic actor and this movie makes him even more great.

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Summary: Not Worthy of the Original...
Review: Now, please don't get me wrong, the movie does have its strengths- Harrison Ford as Linus Larrabee was a delicious treat and a believable role for one of my favorite actors and Greg Kinnear as David was the coup of the century-perfectly cast! However, my biggest regretable point is Julia Ormond (who I immensely enjoyed in Legends of the Fall). She is, sorry, too old not only bioliogically, but in her whole demeanor, for the part and seems like a strange choice to play the part of an innocent and sheltered daughter of the Larrabee's chauffer, even of the plot has been updated for the 90's (working at French Vogue instead of attending cooking school). I guess she was the It Girl at the time.Personally, I would have loved to have seen Darcy Bussell, prima ballerina with the Royal Ballet in the part of Sabrina. Or perhaps Christy Turlington. (Based on all the supermodels popping up in every other film, I do not believe it would have been a stretch.)Understandably, anyone in a remake of an Audrey Hepburn part would have a tough going at it, but I could not get past that one mis-cast, though I did overall like the film. But the title is Sabrina- not that foxy Harrison Ford!

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Summary: In my opinion... THE BEST MOVIE EVER!!!
Review: Out of all the romantic comidies I have ever seen this is the best one. It is a classic Cinderella story, with out it being obvious. It is full of comidy, emotion, and romance. The acting is exquisite. I could never get sick of this movie. I love it to death!!!

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Summary: Good Romantic Comedy; tough remake
Review: "Sabrina" is a nice remake of a classic film (just invoking the names involved in the original -- Humphrey Bogart, Audrey Hepburn, William Holden, and Billy Wilder -- makes you wonder why anyone dared to remake it) . . . a nice romance filled with good, not great performances. "Sabrina" is a great example of what major Hollywood studios can do when things generally click -- it's a good little movie that (fortunately) doesn't seem to be trying too hard.

Essentially a retelling of the classic "ugly duckling" story, "Sabrina" focuses on the maturation of the title character (Julia Ormond, when Hollywood was still in love with her). Sabrina, the daughter of the chauffeur for the fabulously wealthy Larrabee clan, starts the movie as a dumpy little girl, watching the fantastic Larrabee Long Island parties from up in her tree through the world's most god-awful spectacles. Completely infatuated with the Larrabee's younger son David (Greg Kinnear, in a perfect role for him), Sabrina mistakenly confesses her feelings to the older brother Linus (Harrison Ford) before heading off to Paris for her education.

While in Paris, Sabrina works at one of those dream internships that people get in the movies - assisting photographers shoot models for magazine ads. Surrounded by beautiful, artistic people in a beautiful, artistic city, Sabrina finds herself and emerges as a gorgeous, sophisticated woman.

Sabrina returns to Long Island and promptly runs into David, who doesn't recognize her as the daughter of his chauffeur and shamelessly flirts with her even though he is engaged to another gorgeous woman, Dr. Elizabeth Tyson (Lauren Holly), who is just about too perfect for words. Linus, of course, being the businessminded drone that he is, instantly recognizes both Sabrina and David's infatuation with her.

This poses a problem -- Linus wants David to stay with Dr. Tyson, both for David's happiness (as he points out to David in a fun scene, "she won't be a burden") and because Elizabeth's dad Patrick (Richard Crenna) is in tense negotiations with Linus and the negotiations would go better if they are family. So Linus sets out to seduce Sabrina to keep her away from David -- after neutralizing David in a most creative fashion involving a champagne flute.

Of course, during his efforts to seduce Sabrina, the hard-hearted Linus, who has always been a tyrant of a businessman, even as a child, falls for Sabrina, too.

As you can see, a fairly predictable march through the numbers of romantic comedy. The movie's charm is in its execution. Director Sydney Pollack brings the best out of his talented cast, particularly Harrision Ford, who returns to the comic form he demonstrated in "Working Girl" but has been lacking in so many of his other efforts.

The only jarring note in the movie is Sabrina's over-insistence of bringing up Paris in every conversation. When looking at an old building on Martha's Vineyard, Sabrina inexplicably snots, "In Paris, they would consider that brand-new." While it's not surprising that she would return from Paris quite affected by the experience, at times in the movie it comes across as snobby rather than charming.

But this is a minor quibble. "Sabrina" is what it is -- an attractive comedy about attractive people falling in love in attractive settings by doing and saying attractive things. Not great, not inventive, not surprising, but pretty darn good.