| | | You are cordially invited to the most surprising merger of the year.
Features: DVD, Dolby, Digital Audio, English, Dolby Digital (5.1), Dolby Surround Sound
Love is a funny thing. Especially when Harrison Ford, Julia Ormond and Greg Kinnear form the warmest, winningest romantic triangle ever. Directed by Sydney Pollack (Tootsie), Sabrina shimmers like a fairy tale come true. Ford plays Linus Larrabee, a busy tycoon who has no room for love in his appointment book. But when a romance between his playboy brother (Kinnear) and Sabrina (Ormond), daughter of the family chauffeur, threatens one of Linus' business deals, the CEO clears his schedule for some ruthlessness. He courts Sabrina, intending to drop her when the deal closes. Will "the world's only living heart donor" discover his heart? Of course! But, like the best journeys, the fun isn't just the destination, it's the getting there.
"A 10! And one of the 10 best of the year!" Susan Granger, CNN International & American Movie Classics
Editor's Note
Sydney Pollack directs Harrison Ford and Julia Ormond in this remake of the 1954 Billy Wilder romantic comedy. Ford and Greg Kinnear portray a pair of brothers who are both potential heirs to the Larrabee family fortune. David, a dashing playboy, and Linus, a sensible stodgy businessman, both end up vying for the affections of Sabrina (Ormond), the chauffeur's daughter, after she returns elegantly transformed from a sojourn in Paris. Pollack presents an effortless contemporary telling of this classic Cinderella story.
Plot Summary
Sydney Pollack directs this whimsical remake of the 1954 romantic comedy by Billy Wilder. Greg Kinnear and Harrison Ford deftly portray the two wealthy Larrabee brothers, who end up fighting over the affections of their chauffeur's daughter. When Sabrina (Julia Ormond) originally attempts to win over David Larrabee (Greg Kinnear), the younger of the two brothers, and the notorious playboy whom her father works for, he barely even knows she's alive. To help get her mind off David, Sabrina's dad sends her on a trip to Paris, where she trains to become a fashion photographer. In Europe, the mousy young girl blossoms into a beautiful woman before returning to the Larrabee estate on Long Island. At first David doesn't recognize the altered Sabrina. Once he does, however, he falls hard, which jeopardizes his impending marriage to Elizabeth, a wealthy doctor. This turn of events greatly concerns his older, more serious brother, Linus (Harrison Ford), who's counting on the marriage to cement a merger between his company and a business owned by Elizabeth's rich father. So Linus decides to woo Sabrina, hoping she'll fall for him and forget his brother. However, the scheme backfires when Linus himself begins to find the charming Sabrina irresistible.
| Features | Widescreen Version, Enhanced For 16X9 TVs | | Audio: English 5.1 Dolby Digital, Dolby Surround; French Stereo | | Subtitles: English |
| Technical Info
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Release Information
| | Studio: Paramount |
| Release Date: 1/25/2005 |
| Running Time: 127 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1995 | | Catalog ID: 330434 | | UPC: 00097363304340 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English, French Dubbed | | Available Subtitles: English | | Video: Color |
| Cast & Crew
| Awards |
Oscar (1996) | | | John Williams, Nominee, Best Music, Original Score | |
Golden Globe (1996) | | | Harrison Ford, Nominee, Best Actor-Comedy/Musical |
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| | Professional Reviews | Rolling Stone
"...Lushly decorative..." 01/29/1996 p.66-7Sight and Sound
"...A fairly classy number..." 02/01/1996 p.53 Entertainment Weekly
"...In keeping with Ford's canny miniature work, [SABRINA] comes into its own on the small screen..." -- Rating: B 06/14/1996 pp.66-7 Variety
"...Visually appealing..." 12/11/1995 Leonard Maltin's Movie and Video Guide 8 of 10
...sure-handed direction and a very funny script by Barbara Benedek and David Rayfiel. The Paris scenes are especially lovely... - Leonard Maltin
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