Sabrina (1995)
Average Rating: 6/10
Reviews Counted: 46
Fresh: 30 | Rotten: 16
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Average Rating: 5.7/10
Critic Reviews: 19
Fresh: 12 | Rotten: 7
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Average Rating: 3.1/5
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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
Dec 15, 1995 Wide
Jan 15, 2002
Paramount
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Cast
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Harrison Ford
Linus Larrabee -
Julia Ormond
Sabrina Fairchild -
Greg Kinnear
David Larrabee -
John Wood
Fairchild -
Nancy Marchand
Maude Larrabee -
Richard Crenna
Patrick Tyson -
Fanny Ardant
Irene -
Becky Ann Baker
Linda -
Susan Browning
Secretary -
Patrick Bruel
Louis -
Gregory Chase
Ron -
Miriam Colon
Rosa -
Angie Dickinson
Mrs. Tyson -
Elizabeth Franz
Joanna -
Paul Giamatti
Scott -
Lauren Holly
Elizabeth Tyson -
Dana Ivey
Mack -
Valérie Lemercier
Martine -
Margo Martindale
Nurse -
J. Smith-Cameron
Carol -
Ira Wheeler
Bartender -
Ronald L. Schwary
Sheik -
Inés Sastre
Model -
Randy Becker
Trainer -
Carmen Chaplin
Paris Friend
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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.
Top CriticThis new Sabrina is more fizzle than fizz.
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.
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.
Blossoming into radiant color, this film has picture-postcard charms that the black-and-white earlier version could only hint at.
Ford looks as stiff and old hat as his homburg.
Uneven remake, still a sweet story.
Ormand and Ford, who are actually okay, have the impossible tasks of following Wilder's perfect players, Audrey Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart.
Ugly-duckling-into-swan stories are fun, but the lead characters here lack the charisma to make this romantic comedy sufficiently believable or engaging.
Not, as some reviewers claimed, a mediocre reworking of a Hollywood classic, but a truly lousy reworking of a Billy Wilder misfire.
A flaccid remake of the classic 1954 romantic comedy.
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.
A lovely, underrated update...
See the original.
Pleasing remake with a strong cast and a classy script
Retains all the wit and charm that made the original such a winner.
watchable but clunky
Not quite up to the original.
Not a bad remake.
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.
Go rent the Billy Wilder version and see how this should be done!
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