Sabrina is a 1995 film adapted by Barbara Benedek and David Rayfiel, based on the 1954 screenplay, which in turn was based upon a play entitled Sabrina Fair. It was directed by Sydney Pollack, and stars Harrison Ford as Linus Larrabee, Julia Ormond as Sabrina and Greg Kinnear as David Larrabee. It also features Angie Dickinson, Richard Crenna, Nancy Marchand, Lauren Holly, John Wood, Dana Ivey and French actress Fanny Ardant. In the 1995 version, the protagonist, Linus Larrabee, is described by Sabrina (quoting what she has heard from others) as "the world's only living heart donor. He thinks that morals are paintings on walls and scruples are money in Russia." Contrary to the original movie, in this picture Sabrina attends a fashion design training course in Paris, not a culinary course as in the original film. The music was composed by John Williams and includes a song performed by Sting. The film was one of Ford's few financial flops (domestic box-office result was US$53 million), primarily because it suffered from inevitable comparisons to the 1954 version with its high-voltage trio of stars, Audrey Hepburn, Humphrey Bogart, and William Holden. However, the majority of critics enjoyed the movie as seen from the fresh Rotten Tomatoes score of 64%. |