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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: HEPBURN,AUDREY
EAN: 9780792172109
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 0792172108
Label: Paramount
Manufacturer: Paramount
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Pan & Scan
Publisher: Paramount
Region Code: 1
Release Date: April 10, 2001
Running Time: 112 minutes
Sales Rank: 1607
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: 1954
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Product Description:
Modern-day Cinderella story in which the daughter of a wealthy family's chauffeur is transformed into a graceful woman, capturing the attention of the sons of the family.
Genre: Feature Film-Comedy
Rating: NR
Release Date: 29-DEC-2004
Media Type: DVD
Amazon.com essential video:
Audrey Hepburn is the delightful young Sabrina, the daughter of a chauffeur who is hopelessly in love with David Larrabee (William Holden), the playboy younger son in the rich Long Island household her father works for. In order to help her forget her woes, Sabrina is shipped off to cooking school in Paris. While there, she befriends a baron who provides a bit of culture--and the encouragement to snip off her childlike ponytail. Upon her return to New York, Sabrina is transformed into a sophisticated woman, and David is entranced by her. However, his older brother Linus (Humphrey Bogart) has arranged David's marriage to Elizabeth Tyson in order to seal a business merger and thus must steer David away from Sabrina. To do this, Linus takes on the task of wooing her for himself. Full of great dialogue ('A woman happy in love, she burns the soufflé; a woman unhappy in love, she forgets to turn on the oven') and wonderful performances, this film is a romantic masterpiece. Also enjoyable is the 1995 remake, starring Julia Ormond and Harrison Ford. --Jenny Brown
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Rating:  - Sabrina
Really enjoyed this movie; watched it four times! Happy to have it as a part of my permanant collection.
Rating:  - Can understand its appeal
*** spoilers ***
Sure, it's sentimatental, predictable, sappy, and you name it. Yes, it is a piece of fluff, but a very well executed piece of fluff. The actors are well defined, as Sabrina tries to woo her childhood crush as Linus makes tries to wean her away so as to make a political marriage happen for the sake of his business. Of course, guess who falls in love with her also, and guess who Sabrina swoons for at the end? I know, real difficult.
What makes this movie excellent in the incredibly witty dialogue, especaially Linus. Though It's unrealistic Sabrina would fall for Linus given his age, the amount of time together, and the extent of her crush on his brother, one doesn't really care because it's so well done.
Rating: - A Classic
While it is a bit of a stretch to see Hepburn and Bogart together, this film is a MUCH better version than the modern film with Harrison Ford. Stick to the original.
Rating: - Delightful, easy to watch romance
Sabrina (Audrey Hepburn) is the daughter of the chauffeur to the wealthy Larrabee family and is in love with the David Larrabee (William Holden) youngest of the two Larrabee sons, Linus (Bogie!) and David. The two sons couldn't be more different, David the playboy and Linus the stoic, rational business man. To help Sabrina get over her schoolgirl crush on David, her father sends her away to Paris to culinary school. Sabrina leaves Long Island as an awkward waif, and returns a beautiful, elegant Parisian woman still smitten with David. It is the stoic Linus who has fallen head over heals though, but will he recognize it before it is too late? Throw in the complications of a big business deal, family expectations, Edith Piaf songs, and a bit of French joie de vivre (when Americans loved all things Parisian before Freedom Fries became popular!), and you have a great romantic story. This film probably doesn't merit a five star rating, but it is just an easy to watch, light-hearted romance that I never get tired of. There are definitely some plot holes, and Bogie looks like an old man next to Audrey Hepburn, but who cares. Hollywood will be making boy-gets-girl and girl-gets-boy films for the next 1000 years, almost all of them dull, cliched, and forgettable. This film was a hit when it came out and judging from the other Amazon reviews, just as popular today. Highly recommended.
Rating:  - Flawed Fairy-Tale
I'm probably the only human being in the world who remains immune to the charms of this well-executed piece of fluff from Billy Wilder, whose efforts usually place him among my very favorite directors/writers.
Perhaps I've just gotten too old for this kind of "fairy-tale". But it's one thing to see through a fairy-tale after the lights come up, it's another to see through it while the lights are down. Certainly, realism is not a prerequisite for a fairy-tale (quite the contrary!). But in the case of "Sabrina", to this reviewer it is blindingly evident that absent the unique charm of Audrey Hepburn, whose youthful screen persona could take the pants off a leprechaun with a smile, no one would buy this package. Because Bogart, as Linus Larrabee, is so unpleasant, cold, and physically unappealing, that only his character's enormous wealth makes a relationship between him and the exquisite young Sabrina imaginable, let alone palatable. I suspect most audiences aren't even aware of this , but if you turn Linus into the Larrabee's gardener, or the local traffic cop, or the mailman, or even old man Larrabee's stockbroker, no one would accept the relationship. Linus's wealth is the elephant in the room that was only obliquely acknowledged by murmurs of how "miscast" Bogart was. No one is crass enough to sugggest that without all that money behind him, Sabrina, who is written as not having a venal bone in her body even after growing up on the Larrabee estate, might not have responded to the ... Read More
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