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Sabrina
1995
**½
Director: Sydney Pollack
Cast: Harrison Ford, Julia Ormond, Greg Kinnear, Nancy Marchand, Lauren Holly, Angie Dickinson, Richard Crenna

Her father is the chaffeur for the wealthy Larrabees, and Sabrina herself is madly in love with the family's youngest son David. But is he the right man for her? This story about love over social classes and age differences is a remake of Billy Wilder's 1954 romantic comedy. It's impossible to screw up a perfectly good premise like this, but Pollack's film is oddly sombre all the way to the end. Even the happy ending feels like an ordeal for the characters.