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| Paramount Pictures | Release Date: December 15, 1995 |
Starring:
Angie Dickinson, Dana Ivey, Greg Kinnear, Harrison Ford, John Wood, Julia Ormond, Lauren Holly, Miriam Colón, Nancy Marchand, Richard Crenna
Summary:
An ugly duckling (Julia Ormond0 having undergone a remarkable change, still harbors feelings for her crush: a carefree playboy (Greg Kinnear), but not before his business-focused brother (Harrison Ford) has something to say about it.
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Ford plays Linus as a consummate actor so good at feigning emotions that he fools even himself. It is a nuanced performance, astonishing in an otherwise innocuous film. Though Ormond's Sabrina doesn't exactly generate the heat to melt Ford's glacial CEO, his transformation from polar ice cap to volcano is heartstopping. Who'da thunk we were watching Cinderfella? [15 Dec 1995, p.03]
Julia Ormond, the British beauty from "Legends of the Fall," has enough class and intelligence to carry it off. She's not a terrific actress, but her cool, patrician looks and her gorgeous voice -- more similar to Grace Kelly's than Hepburn's -- are well matched to the part of a gawky tomboy-turned-Cinderella.
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Though some of the choicest talent in Hollywood is involved, including stars Harrison Ford and Julia Ormond and director Sydney Pollack, "Sabrina" plays like a standard brand. A mild romantic comedy, undemanding and unobjectionable, it fits the definition of product, a film made not for love but because it was a package that could be sold.
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Don't blame Ormond, who is being vigorously groomed to be the next Julia Roberts in the days before Lyle Lovett. On screen, the poised Brit already has broken the hearts of some of the biggest hunks in Hollywood, from Brad Pitt (Legends of the Fall ) to Sean Connery and Richard Gere (First Knight ). Sabrina probably won't be her breakout film -- it's just not good enough -- though she's charming enough as a beguiling ingenue. [15 Dec 1995, p.6G]
I am really sick of people going easy on this dud remake...Instead of the luminous Audrey Hepburn as Sabrina, the awkward chauffeur's daughter who goes to Paris and comes back a swan, we have Julia Ormond, a decent actress without an ounce of the movie-star glamour the part demands. Instead of Humphrey Bogart as Linus, the elder boss-man brother on the Long Island, N.Y., estate where Sabrina's father works, we have Harrison Ford at his most dour.
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Jun 25, 2020
Strengthened superbly from its considerable cast. Sabrina sprouts it’s romantically emotional touch with such spectacular splendor.
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Jan 4, 2023
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Apr 13, 2019
Ford is good but the tedium in this film is extreme. The odd laugh but too few.
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