Starring: Humphrey Bogart {Linus Larrabee}, Audrey Hepburn {Sabrina Fairchild}, William Holden {David Larrabee}, Walter Hampden {Oliver Larrabee}, Martha Hyer {Elizabeth Tyson}, Nella Walker {Maude Larrabee}, and John Williams {Thomas Fairchild}.
Year of Release: 1954.
Gene: Black-and-White, Classic, Romance, Comedy.
Plot: Sabrina Fairchild, the daughter of a chauffeur who works for the wealthy Larrabee family, falls madly in love with the rather wild younger Larrabee brother David. Despairing of being noticed by the distracted young man who's been married three times already, Sabrina tries to commit suicide by locking herself in the garage with all the cars running. Her plans are ruined, however, when the hard working older Larrabee brother Linus unexpectedly walks into the garage, calmly shuts off all the engines, and, after quizzing her about the engines, carries the fainting Sabrina up to her room near her father's. Sabrina is sent to Paris where she takes cooking lessons, writes long letters to her father, and tries to get over her crush on David. Meeting a friendly old baron distracts her somewhat and her new companion buys her a whole new fashionable wardrobe.
Two years after leaving, Sabrina returns home as an educated, fashionable, and sophisticated young woman. David, now engaged to be married to the heiress of a business associate of Linus', picks her up at the station, completely unaware of who she is till they pull into the courtyard of his grand mansion and she hooks the horn to get everyone's attention. Shocked that the girl he barely noticed has blossomed into such a beautiful young woman, David seems to fall head over heels for Sabrina who soaks up every minute of his attention. Linus, keen on David's marriage, conveniently gets his brother bedridden and then distracts Sabrina by courting her himself. At first, this cold blooded business man is simply trying to prevent a social scandal but eventually he begins to fall in love with Sabrina, and starts mentally panicking over what to do about his newfound feelings for a girl twenty years younger than himself.
It is David, who realizes that Sabrina has also fallen in love with Linus, who saves the day in the most unexpectedly yet predictable manner in the end.
Likes/Dislikes: It is an old Hollywood trend to have younger girls and older men fall in love and get married in many of its movies, and if done well then this isn't such a bad trend. Sabrina, in one of her letters home, writes that she "has learned to be in the world and of the world" which goes against what Jesus taught us. Linus and David call each other names {"He thinks I'm an idiot" says David to Sabrina when he's explaining something to her} but these family interactions are quite amusing to my family and I.
Rating: Being an old movie, it's officially unrated: my personal rating is PG.
Date Report Written: February 21, 2011.
Note: I tried to post this yesterday but apparently it didn't go through. :) Oh well. I shall hopefully have a review on The Tiphereth Trilogy next week if all goes well.
2 comments:
I saw this in theaters! (No, I'm not that old, I saw it last year :P ) I liked it, it was pretty comical.
Yes it was. ;) It's a classic. I'm glad you enjoyed it; my brothers even like it which is something because they usually don't like most of the movies I put on. Especially if there's a romantic plot involved! ;)
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