![]() ![]() She also seems too smart to let herself be jerked around by the Larrabee boys. Ormond is a promising actress, but even in a plunging party dress she's too remote to dazzle the way Sabrina should. Come on, Harrison, you learned this stuff in "Regarding Henry." He and Sabrina (Julia Ormond) have zero chemistry - they fall in love during a musical montage, a dead give - away and the message is pat. He should have dashed Linus off, playing up his wicked streak and oozing the charm he used in "Working Girl." But Linus is a grim, ashen man who knows he's wasted his life. Harrison Ford (Linus) thought too hard about his role. Let's look at the Bermuda Triangle and see why this cruise ship goes down. But Pollack's three stars are more problematic. ![]() Today, the Larrabees' black-tie life - the Lear-jet, the clamoring servants, the lawn parties with a swing band - sticks in your throat. (Wilder had wanted Cary Grant.) Pollack sticks to the plot, though he turns the Paris sequence into a weird homage to "Funny Face." Most of the ancient troubles return from the dead. How bad could a movie with that east be? Pretty bad. So David's joyless, workaholic brother, Linus (Humphrey Bogart), decided to dispose of Sabrina. Alas, David was engaged to an heiress and his family was cooking up a business merger with hers. Sabrina longed for the playboy David Larrabee (William Holden), but it was only after she had a Paris make-over that his eye roved her way. Billy Wilder's 1954 movie concerned a chauffeur's daughter (Audrey Hepburn). If you've been pining for faithful remakes, you're going to love Sydney Pollack's Sabrina: it's every bit as dull as the original. ![]()
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