When her father is delayed from picking her up at the station, flirtatious david, passing by, offers her a lift without recognizing her. Sabrina fairchild is the young, shy, and awkward daughter of the household chauffeur, who has been infatuated with david all her life, but whom david hardly notices till she goes away to paris for two years and returns an elegant, sophisticated, beautiful woman. It is a remake of billy wilder 's 1954 film of the same name, which in turn was based upon the 1953 play sabrina fair. With harrison ford, julia ormond, greg kinnear, nancy marchand An ugly duckling having undergone a remarkable change, still harbors feelings for her crush Musing about “sabrina,” i formed some notions about why the plot is so powerful
It gives us the myths of cinderella and the ugly duckling, inserts some powerfully murky freudian impulses, and wraps them up in a romantic comedy If it’s halfway well done, it can hardly fail. Sabrina fairchild, a chauffeur's daughter, grew up at the long island estate of the wealthy larrabee family enchanted with their sparkling world of privilege and wealth, but she's especially enamored of younger son david, a charming playboy.
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