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Sex and the City is a 2008
American romantic comedy/blue
comedy film adaptation of the HBO comedy series of the same name (itself based on the novel of the same name by Candace Bushnell) about four female friends: Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker), Samantha Jones (Kim
Cattrall), Charlotte York
Goldenblatt (Kristin Davis), and Miranda Hobbes (Cynthia
Nixon), dealing with their lives as 40-something year olds in New
York City. The series often portrayed frank discussions about
romance and sexuality.
The world premiere took place at Leicester Square, London on
May 12, 2008, and premiered on May 28, 2008 in the United Kingdom and
May 30, 2008 in the United States. A sequel was released. Plot
Set four years after the events of the series
finale, the film begins with Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker) and Big (Chris
Noth) viewing apartments with the intention of moving in together.
Carrie falls in love with a penthouse suite far from their price range, which Big
immediately agrees to pay for. However, Carrie experiences doubts over
the wisdom of this arrangement, explaining that they are not married,
and as such she would have no legal rights to their home in the event of
a separation. She offers to sell her own apartment, and quelling her
fears, Big suggests that they get married.
Miranda (Cynthia
Nixon) is finding balancing her home, work, and social life ever
more difficult, and confesses to the girls that she hasn’t had sex with Steve
(David Eigenberg) in six months. She is devastated when
Steve reveals he has slept with another woman, and immediately separates
from him. Samantha (Kim
Cattrall) is living with Smith (Jason Lewis), who has a successful television career
playing a doctor on a prime time soap
opera. They live in a seaside luxury apartment in Malibu
(near Los Angeles), where Samantha is finding it difficult to
take time for herself. She is traveling
frequently between L.A. and New York, and grappling with her
persistent desire for sex with other men; her handsome and sexually
active next-door-neighbor, Dante (Gilles
Marini), in particular. Charlotte (Kristin
Davis) is happy in her marriage to Harry (Evan
Handler), with their adopted daughter, Lily (Alexandra and Parker
Fong).
Carrie is given a Vivienne Westwood wedding gown after modeling it for a
photo shoot in Vogue. Carrie reads to Big from a book of famous love letters she has
borrowed from the New York Public Library. She teases Big for
never having sent her a love
letter. While returning Love Letters of Great Men, Vol. 1
to the library, Carrie sees a wedding being held there and chooses it
for her own venue. Carrie's wedding plans escalate into such a lavish
event that Big begins to experience doubts.
After an argument with Steve at the rehearsal dinner, Miranda, still
upset about Steve's indiscretion, tells Big bluntly that he and Carrie
are crazy to be getting married, as marriage ruins everything. On the
day of the ceremony, Big cannot go through with it, but repeated
attempts to telephone Carrie fail. A devastated Carrie flees the
wedding. Big changes his mind and intercepts Carrie as he sees her
limousine drive away. Carrie, humiliated and betrayed, furiously attacks
Big with her bouquet while he earns scathing looks from Miranda and
Charlotte. The four women subsequently take the honeymoon that Carrie
had booked to Mexico, where they de-stress and collect themselves.
Upon her return to New
York, Carrie hires an assistant,
Louise (Jennifer Hudson), to help her move back into
her old apartment and manage her administration. Charlotte learns she
is pregnant after a visit to her doctor. Miranda eventually confesses to
Carrie about what happened during the night of the rehearsal dinner,
and the two have a brief falling out. After reflecting on the argument
she had with Carrie, Miranda agrees to attend couples counseling with
Steve, and they are eventually able to reconcile. Samantha begins
over-eating to keep from cheating on Smith with Dante, but eventually
realizes that their relationship is simply not working, and that she
needs to put herself first. The two break up, and she moves back to New
York. Charlotte for several months is concerned that something might
happen to the baby, because she feels her life seems to be too perfect.
A surprise encounter with Big at a restaurant leaves Charlotte so
outraged that she goes into labor. Big drives her to the hospital, and
waits until baby Rose is born, hoping to see Carrie. Harry passes on the
message that Big would like her to call him, and that he has written to
her frequently, but never received a reply. Carrie searches her
correspondence, before realizing that Louise has kept his e-mails
password-protected from her, after Carrie earlier announced she wished
to sever all communication with him. She finds that he has sent her
dozens of letters copied from the book she showed him in the weeks
before their wedding, Love Letters of Great Men, Vol. 1,
culminating with one of his own where he apologizes for screwing it up
and promises to love her forever.
One hour before the locks are due to be changed on their shared
penthouse apartment, Carrie travels to the home Big had bought for them
to collect a pair of blue Manolo Blahnik shoes she had left there. She finds Big in
the walk-in closet he had built for her, and the moment she sees him,
her anger at his betrayal dissipates. She runs into his arms and they
share a passionate kiss. After spending the final hour in their
apartment together making up, talking and apologizing to one another,
Big proposes to Carrie properly, using one of her diamond-encrusted
shoes in place of a ring. They later marry alone, in a simple wedding in
New York City Hall, with Carrie dressed in the original dress she had
bought in a vintage shop and the blue Manolos. After Big kisses the
bride, he whispers into her ear "Ever thine. Ever mine. Ever ours.", a
line by Ludwig van Beethoven Carrie read to him
from Love Letters of Great Men, Vol. 1 earlier in the film. They
hold a get-together at a local diner with their friends. The film ends
with the four women around a table in a restaurant, sipping cosmopolitans, and celebrating
Samantha's fiftieth birthday, with Carrie making a toast to the next fifty.
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