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Now that March has ended, it’s time to conclude the month of Billy Wilder with his terrific romantic comedy “Sabrina.”

This film follows Sabrina Fairchild (Audrey Hepburn), the daughter of a chauffer for a very wealthy family, the Larrabee’s. Sabrina always had a crush on David Larrabee (William Holden), the younger of the two brothers, who is a womanizer. Sabrina follows him around at a party, to which David blatantly ignores her for another woman. Her father Thomas Fairchild (John Williams) has decided to send Sabrina to an expensive cooking school in Paris, but upon being shut down again by David, Sabrina decides to forgo her education opportunity and plans to kill herself by starting all of the Larrabee’s seven cars in the garage and suffocating.

Luckily for her, Linus Larrabee (Humphrey Bogart) a boring, wealthy businessman, finds and helps her. Sabrina makes up an excuse, so Linus doesn’t know about Sabrina’s true intentions and moves onto cooking school. Upon returning from cooking school, Sabrina has a newfound sense of entitlement and confidence. She cut her hair, enrolls in distinguished education, and buys a dog, aptly named David. Linus and David Larrabee don’t even recognize her anymore, setting both of them up to try and win her heart.

The reason this movie is significant is what it does for the genre of romantic comedy. For our generation, romantic comedies are movies with a bad plot, two people who are extremely good looking but can’t act, and the cheesy happy ending. When you watch a movie like Sabrina, this is not the case. The score is elegant, not filled with popular pop music that has nothing to do with the plot, but an instrumental symphony that guides you through the movie while you watch it. While the narrative isn’t complex, like most romantic comedies, the plot is without holes and doesn’t have scenes where you scratch your head and ask, “Why does Matthew McConaughey have his shirt off again?”

All in all, this film is great for someone who is down on his or her luck or just had a bad breakup. The acting is superb with Bogart assuming a role that isn’t a hardened detective, but as a man who is a workaholic and is looking for love. Hepburn plays the lovable Sabrina who becomes an independent woman after being stepped on and ignored for all of her life. Holden channels his role form “Sunset Blvd.” as the lovable, ignorant playboy womanizer and plays it perfectly as the man Sabrina initially loves. If you are a Wilder fan, this is a must-see and, after that, a must-have.