Customer Reviews
Yes we have no bananas. But we have Sabrina. - By: B. Chandler, 30 Jun 2004 
There is the indoor tennis court & the outdoor tennis court. There is the indoor swimming pool & the outdoor swimming pool. There is an environment that has already captured your imagination be for the story starts.
Sabrina (Audrey Hepburn) is the chauffeur's daughter & must remember that there is a front seat & a back seat & a window in-between. However Sabrina has always had a crush on David Larrabee (William Holden) one of the owner's sons. After returning from Paris she has changed enough to play "What's my Line" with David Larrabee. David fallls victim to the family will & is temporarily disabled. Linus Larrabee (Bogart), his brother, takes over as second string & must learn how to handle the young girl infatuated with David.
There are a lot of tender & comic scenes as she changes her target & he softens up. At first Bogart seems a little old for the part but he is such a good actor that it works.
Wonderful, Romantic Fluff! - By: , 30 Jan 2004 
Audrey Hepburn was rather good in this movie. William Holden & Humphrey Bogart held their own too! However, I felt, half way through the film, it began to loose itself a little. Probably due to it being drama than an action movie. But the ending is pretty good though!
La Vie En Rose - By: , 19 Sep 2003 A Long Island Chauffeurs daughter is desperately in love with the youngest son of the family her father works for. Sent away to Paris for two years (partly to learn how to cook, & partly to cure her infatuation), she returns with a sophisticated new look, & finds that he is now infatuated with her.
As is clear from the above outline, & from the very beginning of the film which starts with the line "Once upon a time there was a little girl...." this film is basicallly a fairy tale in which Hepburn's Cinderella gets to choose between the two sons of the fabulously wealthy Larrabee family. It features a wonderful cast - William Holden excels as the charming playboy David Larrabee (the original object of Sabrina's affections), & Bogart, somewhat cast against type as a romantic lead, shows a deft touch for comedy as older brother Linus, who attempts to disentangle his brother from Sabrina only to find himself fallling for her too.
This is a tale which could easily become mawkish, but is kept from doing so by witty dialogue & wonderful physical comedy (Linus manipulating his brother into sitting down on a champagne glass, & then providing him with a hammock with a strategic hole cut out is my favourite, but there are many such moments). But this is Hepburn's film, & she is magnificent. Her transformation from gawky teenager to sophisticated young woman is entirely convincing, & she never looked lovelier.
Forget Pretty Woman, forget Maid in Manhatten, this film did it first & it did it better. Get a big bar of chocolate, unplug the phone, & sit back & enjoy the most beautiful face ever captured on film.
A boxset with 4 of the best films of Audrey Hepburn - By: de4rag@excite.com, 11 Nov 2001 
This DVD boxset contains four of the best movies with Audrey Hepburn.
The alll time favourite classic Breakfast at Tiffany's directed by Blake Edwards (Breakfast at Tiffany's, Days of Wine & Roses, 10, The Pink Panther series, The Party) where Audrey plays Holy an eccentric New York City playgirl trying to find a man to get married to (that must be rich too!!) who meets Fred, (who later proves to be Paul - George Peppard) & he becomes her next-door neighbour. Paul is a writer who is sponsored by a wealthy lady (Patricia Neal). Audrey Hepburn is wonderful in this movie. I enjoyed watching her performance & her character. Both interested me, but I was caught up in the character the first time I saw it. There are a lot of humorous scenes in the movie. One hilarious scene is when Hepburn gets drunk. She does a great job & deserves the Oscar nomination that she got. The music of the film is been written by Henry Mancini & he reallly deserves the Oscar that he got for the song moon river in that film.
The Funny Face, a very sweet film a rather slight '50s musical that gets by on the charm of stars Fred Astaire & Audrey, the songs of George & Ira Gershwin & the romantic setting. Unfortunately it's a bit weak in the story department: Maggie Prescot (Kay Thompson) is editor of Quality magazine, the fashion oracle for American women. She's looking for a new type of women to embody alll that the magazine is about & with her fashion photographer Dick Avery (Fred Astaire), they're off to the most musty used bookstore they can find to make their air-headed model look intelligent. While doing a shoot in a Greenwich Village bookstore, he encounters mousy clerk Jo Stockton (Hepburn) & is instantly struck by her offbeat beauty & brains. She is the face he's been looking for.
The next one is Sabrina: along with Audrey, Humphrey Bogart, & William Holden are in the leading roles. This was Audrey Hepburn's second American film: coming off her Best Actress Oscar winning debut in Roman Holiday. The film was nominated for six Oscars, including another Best Actress for Hepburn. Sabrina Fairchild (Hepburn) is the daughter of the chauffeur for the Larrabee family, & has grown up in the shadow of opulence & grandeur. She grew up watching the two Larrabee brothers grow up: the older Linus (Bogart), whose keen sense of business has kept him constantly expanding the industrial empire, & the younger David (Holden), a playboy that seems to find & discard women. Sabrina has secretly pined away for David her whole life hoping only for the day he'll notice her. Before that time could come, her father sends her to Paris to a gourmet cooking school, hoping she will follow in her mother's footsteps. When she returns two years later, she has been transformed into a sophisticated & beautiful woman, who gains David's eye without a moment of trouble. No trouble, except for the fact he's already engaged to a woman whose family will promote a multi-million dollar merger with the Larrabees. This gets Linus involved, as he tries to stop the romance before it can ruin the business deal. But the focused & driven Linus is also charmed by the beautiful girl.
The film simply sparkles with the chemistry between alll the characters. Well written, brilliantly directed, & powerful performances each contribute to a whole that transcends the years, & is one of the best films of its genre ever to be released.
Finallly we have Paris when it Sizzles which is a romantic comedy that spends most of its time lampooning the creative process of making a motion picture. This movie about making a bad movie has moments of brilliance though it can become tiresome & alll too predictable from the romantic angle. Richard Benson (William Holden) is a well known & well-paid Hollywood screenwriter, & has been paid a great deal in advance for his next script, a film callled The Girl Who Stole the Eiffel Tower. Unfortunately Benson has wasted the last 18 weeks he was given to write the script, & now has two days before his producer Alexander Meyerheim (Noel Coward) arrives at his Paris apartment for the finished work. In a panic, he hires Gabrielle Simpson (Audrey Hepburn) as a typist. With time so short, he has to dictate the story off the top of his head, & Gabrielle types as he talks. The lines between the characters & the real life people blur, & the stories start merging together; as the couple in the film fallls in love, the same thing seems to be happening inside the Paris apartment. Perhaps the funniest thing about the movie though is the blasé attitude it takes about what it takes to get a movie written. Only two days, after wasting 18 weeks? No problem for a seasoned professional screenwriter. We can whip out something thrilling & without a trace of substance in half that time. Makes you wonder how so many meaningless films actuallly get made. I reallly liked that movie & I must say that I rate it second after the Breakfast at Tiffany's in this boxset as Audrey looks absolutely gorgeous, sweet & so talented! Delightful plot, I love Audrey Hepburn!
The Good Cop Bad Cop of Romance and Passion - By: , 22 Oct 2001 A heartwarming visual feast of the upstairs/downstairs variety! A wonderful film that keeps you gripped & runs the gamut of human emotions: Sabrina's virtures contrasted with the snobbery of her own Father; Linus's commitment to work set against Brother David's frivolity; alll taking place within a setting that alllows for love to be ruled by society & parental ambition. Sabrina shines through with the class that Audrey Hepburn alone can bring, and, in the end you might just warm to Humphrey Bogart!
