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Sabrina

Sabrina

Movie · 1995 · 15 people

A young woman caught between two very different brothers is at the centre of Sabrina, which Paramount Pictures released on 15 December 1995. Sydney Pollack directed this American romantic comedy-drama as a remake of Billy Wilder's 1954 film of the same name, with Humphrey Bogart, Audrey Hepburn and William Holden, itself drawn from Samuel A. Taylor's 1953 play Sabrina Fair; the new screenplay was by Barbara Benedek and David Rayfiel.

Julia Ormond plays Sabrina, daughter of the chauffeur of the wealthy Larrabee family. Harrison Ford is the work-obsessed brother Linus Larrabee and Greg Kinnear, in his first film role, the irresponsible playboy David. The cast includes Angie Dickinson, Richard Crenna, Nancy Marchand, Lauren Holly, Fanny Ardant and Valérie Lemercier. Unlike the original, where Sabrina studies cooking in Paris, here she studies fashion production and becomes a photographer.

Filming took place in New York, Massachusetts and Paris. The Larrabee mansion is the Salutation estate in Glen Cove, Long Island, built around 1929. John Williams's score and Sting's song "Moonlight" brought two Oscar nominations in 1996, alongside three Golden Globe nominations. The film underperformed, earning about 53 million dollars domestically and 87 million worldwide. Reviews were mixed, with praise for the cast.

DirectorSydney Pollack
Production companyParamount Pictures Corporation

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Fanny Ardant Fanny Ardant Actor · 77 years old Valérie Lemercier Valérie Lemercier Actor · 62 years old Harrison Ford Julia Ormond Greg Kinnear Nancy Marchand Richard Crenna Angie Dickinson Lauren Holly Becky Ann Baker John Wood Míriam Colón Patrick Bruel Dana Ivey Paul Giamatti

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Cinephile Looks at script, editing and directing choices; keeps a distance from formula films.

Remaking Billy Wilder's 1954 film means inviting comparison from the start, and Pollack's version was weighed down by exactly that burden in the reviews. In craft terms it is careful: the sense of place built across New York, Massachusetts and Paris, the use of a real mansion on Long Island and John Williams's Oscar-nominated score give it a classic Hollywood polish. In my view, though, the problem lies in that very polish: Pollack restores the story respectfully rather than reinterpreting it. The lightness and speed a romantic comedy needs at times give way to a stately dramatic pace, and the result is a remake that looks flawless but rarely finds a voice of its own.

History & Society Lens Asks about the period, the social background and what the work reflects.

At its heart Sabrina is about the class distance between a chauffeur's daughter and the sons of a wealthy family; the gap between the mansion and the world of the staff is the story's real axis. The 1995 version's most meaningful update is that Sabrina studies fashion production in Paris instead of cooking and returns as a photographer: a woman who gains a profession and a way of seeing, not a domestic skill. Yet the story still ties her fate to which of two brothers she will choose, so although the heroine changes, the frame remains the fairy tale of forty years earlier. That tension shows well how 1990s romantic comedy swung between female independence and the classic fairy tale.

Family Viewer Asks whether the whole household can watch it; cares about humour and heart.

A calm romantic comedy built on feelings and flirtation rather than violence or harsh scenes, which makes it an easy choice for a family evening. Older relatives, especially fans of old Hollywood, may recognise the story. Young children, on the other hand, may find the talk of love triangles and business dull. In my view it is best as a Sunday-evening film for teens and grandparents together.

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