Sabrina (1995) (1995)
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65% of critics liked it
(46 reviews) -
61% of users liked it
(51,493 ratings)
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… More 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 Sabrina returns from a sojourn in Paris transformed into a remarkably poised and attractive young woman, she at long last catches David's eye. In a calculated effort to manipulate David away from her and into a more financially advantageous marriage, older brother Linus (Harrison Ford) pretends to woo Sabrina himself, but finds himself unintentionally falling in love. ~ Karl Williams, Rovi
- Directed By
- Sydney Pollack
- Genres
- Drama, Romance, Comedy
- In Theaters
- Dec 15, 1995 Wide
- Studio
- Paramount
Critic Reviews
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Richard Schickel, TIME Magazine
We remain outside the fourth wall looking in but are never drawn in; bemused perhaps, even agreeably complaisant, but never entirely amused.
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Todd McCarthy, Variety
This new Sabrina is more fizzle than fizz.
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Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
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.
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Derek Adams, Time Out
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.
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Janet Maslin, New York Times
Blossoming into radiant color, this film has picture-postcard charms that the black-and-white earlier version could only hint at.
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Cast
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Harrison Ford
as Linus Larrabee
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Julia Ormond
as Sabrina Fairchild
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Greg Kinnear
as David Larrabee
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John Wood
as Fairchild
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Nancy Marchand
as Maude Larrabee
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Richard Crenna
as Patrick Tyson
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Fanny Ardant
as Irene
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Becky Ann Baker
as Linda
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Susan Browning
as Secretary
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Patrick Bruel
as Louis
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Gregory Chase
as Ron
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Miriam Colon
as Rosa
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Angie Dickinson
as Mrs. Tyson
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Elizabeth Franz
as Joanna
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Paul Giamatti
as Scott
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Lauren Holly
as Elizabeth Tyson
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Dana Ivey
as Mack
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Valérie Lemercier
as Martine
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Margo Martindale
as Nurse
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J. Smith-Cameron
as Carol
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Ira Wheeler
as Bartender
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Ronald L. Schwary
as Sheik
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Inés Sastre
as Model
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Randy Becker
as Trainer
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Carmen Chaplin
as Paris Friend


