Sabrina movie storyline. While she was growing up, Sabrina Fairchild spent more time perched in a tree watching the Larrabee family than she ever did on solid ground. As the chauffeur’s daughter on their lavish Long Island estate, Sabrina was invisible behind the branches, but she knew them all below…
There is Maude Larrabee, the modern matriarch of the Larrabee Corporation; Linus Larrabee, the serious older son who expanded a successful family business into the world’s largest communications company; and David, the handsome, fun-loving Larrabee, who was the center of Sabrina’s world until she was shipped off to Paris. After two years on the staff of Vogue magazine, Sabrina has returned to the Larrabee estate but now she has blossomed into a beautiful and sophisticated woman. And she’s standing in the way of a billion dollar deal.
Sabrina is a 1995 German-American romantic comedy-drama film adapted by Barbara Benedek and David Rayfiel. It is a remake of the 1954 film Sabrina co-written and directed by Billy Wilder that starred Humphrey Bogart, Audrey Hepburn, and William Holden, which in turn was based upon a play titled Sabrina Fair.
It was directed by Sydney Pollack, and stars Harrison Ford as Linus Larrabee, Julia Ormond as Sabrina and Greg Kinnear (in his first starring film role) as David Larrabee. It also features Angie Dickinson, Richard Crenna, Nancy Marchand, Lauren Holly, John Wood, Dana Ivey, and French actress Fanny Ardant.
Filming Locations
The mansion of brothers Linus and David Larrabee (Harrison Ford and Greg Kinnear) in this enjoyable, but unnecessary, remake of Billy Wilder’s 1954 original, is a private home built in 1929 for financier Junius Spencer Morgan, and not open to the public, Salutations, Salutation Road, off Danas Highway on West Island, Glen Cove.
Linus Larrabee whisks Sabrina (Julia Ormond) away to the family’s summer home on exclusive island resort Martha’s Vineyard, off the coast of Massachusetts (famous as the location for Steven Spielberg’s Jaws).
Sabrina movie storyline. The cottage itself (which belonged to singer Billy Joel) overlooks the fishing port of Chilmark on the island’s southwestern coast. The town to which they cycle is Vineyard Haven, over on the island’s northeastern coast.
Sabrina’s stay in Paris takes in the usual touristy locations of the elaborate Pont Alexandre III; the Place du Trocadero at the foot of the Eiffel Tower; the Louvre’s stunning glass pyramid (since featured in The Da Vinci Code); and Montmartre and the Sacre Coeur.
The final clinch is on the narrow, wooden Pont des Arts, just south of the Louvre, a location famously used in 1932’s Boudu Sauvé Des Eaux (remade by Hollywood as Down and Out in Beverly Hills), and more recently seen in The Bourne Identity.
Sabrina (1995)
Directed by: Sydney Pollack
Starring: Harrison Ford, Julia Ormond, Greg Kinnear, John Wood, Nancy Marchand, Richard Crenna, Angie Dickinson, Lauren Holly, Dana Ivey, Elizabeth Franz, Valérie Lemercier
Screenplay by: Barbara Benedek, David Rayfiel
Production Design by: Brian Morris
Cinematography by: Giuseppe Rotunno
Film Editing by: Fredric Steinkamp
Costume Design by: Gary Jones, Ann Roth
Set Decoration by: George DeTitta Jr., Amy Marshall
Art Direction by: John Kasarda, Jeremy Conway
Music by: John Williams
MPAA Rating: PG for some mild language.
Distributed by: Paramount Pictures
Release Date: December 15, 1995
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