The playboy son who barely knew her name takes notice, but she also catches the eye of his serious and surly older brother. Eventually she grows up, moves to Paris, becomes stylish and sophisticated, then moves back home.
She pines for the playboy son of her father’s employer, and stares longingly at a world where she’ll never belong. Sabrina, the daughter of a chauffeur to a wealthy family on Long Island, is the quintessential ugly duckling. The romantic plot of Sabrina is truly timeless. Before you shriek and clutch your pearls, let me explain. I’d even go as far as to say I like it better than the original Billy Wilder version. The list is short, but at the top I would have to put Sydney Pollack’s 1995 version of Sabrina ( DVD/ Download). In thinking about all these reboots currently in the works, I started wondering if I have ever seen a remake of a film that I actually liked. 25th, but when it’s 105 outside and I want to sit in an air conditioned movie theater, I’d rather not have to suffer through yet another tired superhero flick. I know, I know, studios save all the good movies for the fall or Dec. Does nobody in Hollywood have an original idea anymore? Sure, I enjoyed Jurassic World as much as the next person, in an “oh my God this is so bad that it may be the best comedy I’ve seen in years” kind of way, but still I yearn for more films like Love & Mercy, or Tangerine. It seemed like everything was a remake or a sequel. Confronted with the summer box office marquee recently, I had to take a pause and just shudder.
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