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Article: Sabrina.
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- National Review
- Article date:
- January 29, 1996
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There was no compelling need to remake Sabrina, the 1954 Billy Wilder movie with Audrey Hepburn. I am far from a Sabrina or Hepburn fanatic, but I do believe in leaving well enough alone, and this was a powerful case of well enough. The new screenplay by Barbara Benedek and David Rayfiel adds a few up-to-date touches to the Wilder/Samuel Taylor/Ernest Lehman version: mostly, we get color, Paris, and a lot of fashion-photography sequences. But all this is only window dressing, amiably directed by Sydney Pollack, and with songs by John Williams and Alan and Marilyn Bergman inferior to Frederick Hollander's score for the original.
Harrison Ford may be an improvement ...