Opening

73% World War Z Jun 21
79% Monsters University Jun 21
62% The Bling Ring Jun 21
58% Maniac Jun 21
100% A Hijacking Jun 21
68% Unfinished Song Jun 21
100% The Attack Jun 21
—— The Haunting of Helena Jun 21

Top Box Office

56% Man of Steel $116.6M
85% This Is the End $20.7M
50% Now You See Me $11.0M
71% Fast & Furious 6 $9.6M
38% The Purge $8.3M
34% The Internship $7.1M
62% Epic $6.3M
87% Star Trek Into Darkness $6.3M
11% After Earth $4.1M
78% Iron Man 3 $3.0M

Coming Soon

—— How To Make Money Selling Drugs Jun 26
—— White House Down Jun 28
—— The Heat Jun 28
56% I'm So Excited! Jun 28

Sabrina (1995)

tomatometer

63

Average Rating: 5.7/10
Critic Reviews: 19
Fresh: 12 | Rotten: 7

No consensus yet.

audience

61

liked it
Average Rating: 3.1/5
User Ratings: 51,518

My Rating

Movie Info

A remake of a 1954 Billy Wilder romance, this updated version of the play Sabrina Fair was directed by Sydney Pollack. Julia Ormond stars as Sabrina Fairchild, the daughter of a kindly chauffeur (John Wood) at the Long Island estate of the upper-crust Larrabee family. Sabrina has grown up enchanted from afar with the Larrabees' sparkling world of privilege and wealth, but she's especially enamored of younger Larrabee brother David (Greg Kinnear), a charming womanizer. After the once-plain

PG,

Drama, Romance, Comedy

Jan 15, 2002

Paramount

Watch It Now

Cast

ADVERTISEMENT

All Critics (46) | Top Critics (19) | Fresh (30) | Rotten (16) | DVD (14)

We remain outside the fourth wall looking in but are never drawn in; bemused perhaps, even agreeably complaisant, but never entirely amused.

February 3, 2009 Full Review Source: TIME Magazine
TIME Magazine
Top Critic IconTop Critic

This new Sabrina is more fizzle than fizz.

February 3, 2009 Full Review Source: Variety
Variety
Top Critic IconTop Critic

Sydney Pollack directs with the sort of polish that was easy to take for granted two decades ago but almost looked like classicism in 1995.

February 3, 2009 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader
Chicago Reader
Top Critic IconTop Critic

Ormond's face is certainly not hard to gaze at, but she looks so often ill at ease that her 'confident' gay smiles suggest, inappropriately, some masked pyschological distress.

June 24, 2006 Full Review Source: Time Out
Time Out
Top Critic IconTop Critic

Blossoming into radiant color, this film has picture-postcard charms that the black-and-white earlier version could only hint at.

May 20, 2003 Full Review Source: New York Times
New York Times
Top Critic IconTop Critic

Ford looks as stiff and old hat as his homburg.

May 12, 2001
Rolling Stone
Top Critic IconTop Critic

Uneven remake, still a sweet story.

January 1, 2011 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media

Ormand and Ford, who are actually okay, have the impossible tasks of following Wilder's perfect players, Audrey Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart.

October 18, 2008 Full Review Source: Philadelphia City Paper
Philadelphia City Paper

Ugly-duckling-into-swan stories are fun, but the lead characters here lack the charisma to make this romantic comedy sufficiently believable or engaging.

October 18, 2008 Full Review Source: Boxoffice Magazine
Boxoffice Magazine

Not, as some reviewers claimed, a mediocre reworking of a Hollywood classic, but a truly lousy reworking of a Billy Wilder misfire.

May 27, 2008 Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide
TV Guide's Movie Guide

A flaccid remake of the classic 1954 romantic comedy.

May 27, 2008 Full Review Source: Film4
Film4

It's hard to imagine any actress today reprising Audrey Hepburn's graceful charm, but British newcomer Julia Ormond is a particularly bad choice and Harrison Ford ain't Bogey, either. Add the film to long list of unnecessary remakes.

September 18, 2007 Full Review Source: EmanuelLevy.Com
EmanuelLevy.Com

A lovely, underrated update...

December 6, 2005 Full Review Source: Film Threat
Film Threat

See the original.

May 7, 2005
Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies

Pleasing remake with a strong cast and a classy script

March 11, 2005
Kalamazoo Gazette

Retains all the wit and charm that made the original such a winner.

August 7, 2004 Full Review Source: TheMovieReport.com
TheMovieReport.com

watchable but clunky

July 11, 2004
Shadows on the Wall

Not quite up to the original.

January 2, 2004
MovieCrypt.com

Not a bad remake.

December 1, 2003
Juicy Cerebellum

A very effective updating of an old rags-to-riches tale, being careful not to suggest that a woman needs to find a rich man in order to be happy.

March 27, 2003 Full Review Source: Laramie Movie Scope
Laramie Movie Scope

Go rent the Billy Wilder version and see how this should be done!

February 2, 2003
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

Audience Reviews for Sabrina

Sydney Pollack's homage pales in comparison to, well c'mon, Bogie and Hepburn and Wilder ... how can you beat that? But after taking that monumental fact into account, its not so bad on its own merits. Ford and Ormond have their own charm, yah, but the writing fails the scintillation somewhat. Otherwise the fantasy of the ugly duckling turned elegant swan remains intact.
September 8, 2007
UniversalDreamer

Super Reviewer

An almost word for word remake but Harrison Ford is great. Full review later.
April 9, 2010
TomBowler
Thomas Bowler

Super Reviewer

No quotes approved yet for Sabrina. Logged in users can submit quotes.

Discussion Forum

There are no discussion threads for Sabrina yet.

What's Hot On RT

24 Frames
24 Frames

Pictures from a zombie nation

Blue Jasmine
Blue Jasmine

Woody Allen in San Francisco

Diana Trailer
Diana Trailer

Naomi Watts stars as Princess Di

Summer Scorecard
Summer Scorecard

Where does This Is the End rank?

Help | About | Jobs | Critics Submission | API | Licensing | Mobile