Man did the 1995 remake stink up Billy Wilders 1954 original with Audrey Hepburn, Humphrey Bogart, and William Holden. Sabrina‘s plot is pure Broadway hokum (rich bachelor brothers vie for their chauffeurs daughter, now all grown up and babe-a-licious), but Wilder gives the material enough spin to save it from saccharine sweetness. Because, as with her prior Roman Holiday (and subsequent Love in the Afternoon), theres always just something faintly smuttywhich Wilder, of course, adoresabout the tacit subject of a virgins imminent deflowering. Holden asks, Ive been trying to write her a poem. What rhymes with glass? Bogie deadpans back, Glass…hmm…I know, alas. Hepburn more than holds her own against these older men, and theres something touchingly comic and off-balance about Bogies cranky businessman falling for a woman half his age. Never mind the real-life subtext of Lauren Bacall; here he makes you share his surprise at finding a fresh start when he didnt even know one was required. (NR) BRIAN MILLER
June 25-July 1, 6:30 & 8:45 p.m.; Sat., June 26, 4 p.m.; Sun., June 27, 4 p.m., 2010