Sex and the City

Plot synopsis:
=== Season 1 (1998) ===
Carrie Bradshaw lives in Manhattan and writes a column called "Sex and the City". At a birthday party for Miranda, Carrie and her friends decide to start having sex "like men", meaning without emotional attachment. However, she realizes she cannot after getting brushed off by a man she has sex with one time later.
Carrie has many chance encounters with a handsome businessman whom Samantha refers to as "Mr. Big". They begin to date, but Carrie is dismayed to find out he is still seeing other people. Although he eventually agrees to exclusivity, he doesn't introduce Carrie to his mother and won't refer to her as "the one", so rather than going on a planned vacation with him, Carrie breaks it off.
Carrie sets up Miranda with her friend Skipper. Miranda and he date on and off; he is more laid back while Miranda is more forceful. After they break up, Miranda sees him with another woman and feels compelled to resume their relationship, but they again break up when he wants exclusivity and she does not.
Charlotte dates a marriage-minded man but they clash over china patterns. She declines to have anal sex with another boyfriend and also consents to pose nude for a famous painter.
Samantha sleeps with an artist who likes to videotape his encounters, with Charlotte's doorman, with a married couple, and with others. When she meets James, who seems utterly perfect for her, she's heartbroken to discover that he has an extremely small penis.
=== Season 2 (1999) ===
Carrie dates a baseball player while on the rebound but breaks it off when she realizes she's not over Big. She then dates a sell-out filmmaker, a shoplifter, and a nice guy she scares away by snooping, and then takes up with Big again. She at first keeps this from her friends. Her and Big's relationship is rocky, and when he announces that he might have to move to Paris for a year but doesn't overtly invite Carrie to come with him, they break up a second time. Carrie then tries without success to convert a friend-with-benefits to something more, dates a writer with a great family but who is always "early" in bed, and then a recovering alcoholic who uses Carrie to replace his old addiction. She then runs into Big, returned from Paris, and his new 20-something fiancee, Natasha (played by Bridget Moynahan).
Miranda dates a dirty talker, fakes it with an ophthalmologist, and tries to adjust to a guy who likes to watch porn during sex. By the time she meets Steve, the bartender, she's unwilling to believe he is as nice as he seems. They start dating but the differences in their schedules and their finances lead to a breakup. She winds up back in bed with Steve, but not before dating a guy who wants to get caught, a Peeping Tom in the next building, and a divorced dad.
Charlotte encounters a legendary purveyor of cunnilingus, a handy actor next door, a widower on the make, a man who undergoes adult circumcision, a famous actor, a too-effeminate pastry chef, a shoe salesman with a foot fetish, and a 20-something guy who gives her crabs.
Despite a brief attempt at couples therapy, Samantha breaks up with James. She then sleeps with a litigator, a salsa dancer, her personal trainer, a sports fan who can only rally when his team does well, and Charlotte's brother. She then meets a man whose penis is too big even for her.
The end of Season two also marks the end of characters' talking directly to the camera.
=== Season 3 (2000) ===
Carrie starts off dating a politician, followed by a bisexual. Big marries Natasha, and Carrie meets Aidan, a furniture maker. They have a virtually flaw-free relationship until Carrie and Big begin an affair. When Natasha catches Carrie in Natasha and Big's apartment, Carrie and Big's affair ends as do eventually both Big's marriage and Carrie's relationship with Aidan.
Miranda and Steve move in together. He tells Miranda he'd like them to have a baby, but a puppy purchase instead alerts Miranda to the fact that they're very different when it comes to maturity. Steve moves out and Miranda makes partner at her law firm. She also goes on to date a phone sex guy, a fake ER doctor, a guy who doesn't swallow his food, and a police detective.
Charlotte, looking for a husband, dates an investment banker with an anger management problem, a photographer who gets her into menswear, a bad kisser, and a climax name caller. She then meets Trey MacDougal; despite an awkward "proposal", the discovery of his low libido and inability to perform sexually the night before their marriage, and conflict with his domineering mother, the two marry. They begin their marriage with a sexless honeymoon, and as sex remains an ongoing problem in their relationship, the two eventually separate.
Samantha sleeps with a fireman, a short man, her assistant, a black guy with a disapproving sister, a recreational Viagra user, a guy who tastes bad, Trey's Scottish cousin, a dildo model, and a college-aged virgin. She also has a menopause scare, gets tested for HIV, and buys a new apartment in the Meatpacking District, where she has to make peace with the transgender women on her street.
After Carrie's break-ups with Big and Aidan, she dates a guy who still lives at home, teaches a class at the Learning Annex on how to meet men, gets mugged, and tries to apologize to Natasha. She and Big also make an attempt at being friends.
=== Season 4 (2001–02) ===
After a chance meeting with Aidan at the opening of a bar he co-owns, Carrie convinces him to restart their relationship. He moves into her apartment after purchasing it when her building goes co-op and then proposes. Despite her misgivings, Carrie accepts the proposal and then eventually realizes she's not ready for marriage. Despite discussing her concerns and initially agreeing to give her more time, Aidan soon pressures Carrie for marriage. She realizes this is because he does not trust her, given her past affair with Big. They break up and he moves out, and Carrie purchases her apartment after Charlotte lends her the down payment in the form of the engagement ring she received from Trey. At the end of Season Four, Carrie discovers that Big has sold his apartment and is moving to Napa, California.
Charlotte and Trey are living apart but continuing to have marital relations; they eventually reconcile and Charlotte moves back into their shared apartment. They decide to try for a baby but realize Charlotte is reproductively challenged; after fertility treatments and discussing adoption, their marriage breaks apart under the strain and they decide to divorce.
Miranda supports Steve through testicular cancer and surgery. Later, when he feels emasculated by the surgery, they have sex and Miranda gets pregnant. She initially considers an abortion, which is particularly distressing to Charlotte, as she deals with her struggles to get pregnant, but Miranda decides to keep the baby.
Samantha flirts with a priest, has nude photos taken of herself, tries to have a relationship with a lesbian, and sleeps with a baby talker, a wrestling coach, and a farmer. She then lands a big PR account with resolutely single hotel magnate Richard Wright. They begin a relationship that starts out as purely sexual but becomes something more to both of them, and they attempt monogamy. However, she eventually catches him cheating, and they break up.
=== Season 5 (2002) ===
Carrie spends time by herself in Season Five; she fears this means she will be fired from writing her sex column, but instead a publisher wants to turn the columns into a book. A book tour lands her in San Francisco, where she reunites briefly with Big. In New York, she meets Jack Berger, a fellow author with whom she feels sparks, but who is attached.
Samantha tries again with Richard but cannot overcome her lack of trust in him, and she breaks it off for good.
Miranda is now mother to son Brady and finds it difficult to work, date, and carry on her previous lifestyle. Steve is supportive, and she falls into bed with him one afternoon, making her question her feelings for him.
Charlotte has a run-in with her former mother-in-law over the legalities of the apartment she shared with Trey, and she hires Harry Goldenblatt as her divorce attorney. Despite his physical shortcomings she finds herself attracted to him, and they begin a sexual relationship. She soon finds that she is developing real feelings for him. Harry, however, reveals that he must marry within his Jewish faith, causing Charlotte to actually consider conversion.
=== Season 6 (2003–04) ===
Carrie begins dating Jack Berger, who is termed her best 'mental match' of all her relationships. However, his struggles as an author and her success with her upcoming book cause too much conflict between them, and they break up. Big returns to New York for angioplasty, and Carrie realizes she still has feelings for him; she also realizes he still cannot fully commit. After he returns to Napa, she meets Aleksandr, a famous Russian artist. Aleksandr seems to be attentive to her in a way that Big never was, and he asks her to come to Paris with him. She does, briefly, but realizes how inattentive he is when working, and she breaks it off with him just as Big arrives in Paris, looking for her, ready to finally commit to her being "the one".
Charlotte decides that life with Harry, who accepts her fertility issues, would be worth converting to Judaism. After this process, she presses Harry to "set the date" in an insulting way and he breaks it off with her. However, they run into each other at a mixer and, after her tearful apology, rekindle their relationship and eventually marry. After fertility treatments fail, they decide to adopt, and eventually learn they have been approved to adopt a child from China.
Once Miranda realizes she's still in love with Steve, he begins a serious relationship with someone else (Debbie), and so she does the same with Robert (played by Blair Underwood). However, at their son Brady's first birthday party, they reveal their feelings for each other and renew their relationship. Miranda proposes to Steve and they marry in a community park. Needing more room for their growing family, she consents to moving to Brooklyn, where they buy a brownstone. After Steve's mother Mary (played by Anne Meara) is revealed to have suffered a stroke and subsequent memory loss, she moves in with the couple.
Samantha begins a relationship with a much younger waiter, Jerry Jerrod, who turns out to be a struggling actor. She uses her PR skills to help his career, even changing his name to Smith Jerrod. Despite trying to keep their relationship as casual as her others, she develops true feelings for him. Smith supports her after she is diagnosed with breast cancer, shaving his own head in sympathy after catching her shaving her head when chemotherapy makes her hair fall out. He also insists on waiting for her when her treatment diminishes her sex drive. When he flies home from his movie shoot just to tell her that he loves her, she replies, "You have meant more to me than any man I've ever known."
The season and the series concludes with the four girlfriends reunited in New York City, and with Carrie receiving a phone call from Big (which finally reveals his first name, John), telling her that his Napa house is up for sale and he is headed back to New York. Carrie's final voiceover states: "The most exciting, challenging and significant relationship of all is the one you have with yourself. And if you find someone to love the you you love, well, that's just fabulous."

Tags: romantic, flashback

Review:
Now, writer Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker), and her friends Miranda Hobbes (Cynthia Nixon), Samantha Jones (Kim Cattrall), and Charlotte Goldenblatt (Kristen Davis) walk around New York obsessing over shoes, handbags, and love.
Oh you brought me back to life." LOUISE: "And you gave me, Louise Vuitton." Yes the writer of "The Real Me" and "A Woman's Right To Shoes" actually wrote this garbage.Lawyer Miranda is now a frigid shrew who swats her deadbeat husband away like a fly every time he tries to get near her - and spends the entire 2.5 hours complaining about how marriage changed her, it made her move to Brooklyn.
Even putting aside the wooden and/or exaggerated acting, you fail to recognize the characters who where transformed into caricatures, pathetic versions of themselves.There were very very few lines that gave a glimpse of the old clever dialog, and they all got lost in a mass of cheesy lines about love and friendship that you even rarely anymore encounter in the corniest of Hollywood's chick flicks, and toiler humor that you only expect from movies like Harold and Kumar.
OK, maybe the comparison to Harold and Kumar is a little unfair, but really I had never expected Sex and the City to rely on fart jokes for comic relief.People comment that those who rate this movie badly are either men, or just not fans of the show.
From my perspective the fans of the show should be the ones most disappointed by the travesty that was this film.We grew to love the show because of its honesty towards sexual issues, its shocking but clever dialog, and its characters who, however unreal with their designer obsessions, uncontrollable spending and lack of real jobs, remained true to their personas regarding sex, relationships, commitment, independence.The show was about sex.
Dropping 15 designer names in one sentence, showing bulging men's underpants and orgasming at the sight of huge closets, Sex and the City does not make.As for me, I will keep watching the reruns and pretend this movie never happened..
While Big gets nervous, Carrie goes planning crazy, Miranda sows the seeds of problems in her own marriage, Charlotte plays happy families and Samantha has it all except one thing.This plot setup creates the focus of the film  less on the free-wheeling sex and modern relationships of the series and more on the pitfalls of a mature relationship.
Put aside any thought you might have about not caring a great deal about what happens to a group of rich, superficial white women who (you are told) are actually very smart and talented but who (you are shown) are silly twits (not to use a different vowel) whose exclusive joy in life comes from sex and shopping, and not in that order.
Saying that "Sex and the City: The Movie" is just for the fans is unnecessary (like it was made for another audience, right?).
So I just figured it would be a funny, romantic movie to go to and also to appease my wife...she isn't a big Indian Jones fan.20 minutes into this piece of garbage, I realized that this might have been a mistake...although you wouldn't have guessed it by my wife's reaction...she seemed to be thoroughly enjoying it.
And that any woman who watched this and thinks that their life can end up like this is in for a sad, demoralizing surprise.Needless to say, I ended up sleeping on the pull out bed that night.Men, please do yourself a favor...stay away from this piece a crap..
The film jumps ahead 3 years in the characters' lives, and then intertwines the stories of the four women throughout the course of a year, as they each come to terms with the ending they found at the series' completion.
The movie doesn't spend as much time on them as they do the trials of the female characters, naturally, and no relationship is depicted as closely as Carrie and Big's.
A gaggle of successful late thirty something women bitch, moan, and in general treat men like dirt as they wear designer clothes, try on shoes, live in overpriced apartment in gentrified neighborhoods,, advance their careers, attend fashion shows , go shopping ,and in general do the same thing they did in the late-and unlamented series.
The thing is it's so all over the place, and at over two hours long the film most definitely outstays its welcome, that it's everything before ending on a note that reeks of some kind of false, circular journey we're supposed to think the lead characters have been through.The gist of the bizarre clash of ideas is best illustrated during the opening half an hour or so during which we get a lot of fluff and a lot of sugary establishment of characters and the world in which they live before, at random intervals, cutting to explicit sex scenes between people we've spent all of about ten minutes with.
The women are Carrie Bradshaw (Parker); Samantha Jones (Cattrall); Charlotte York (Davies) and Miranda Hobbes (Nixon), whom during the film will indulge in a variety of activities and exchange a number of dialogue tidbits to one another to do with how often one must shave below the waist and how shops and fashion labels are really great things to live by.The film is about four women and how they live their life but it is directed by a male named Michael Patrick King.
The film shifted focus between like seven different plot-lines (most of them better than the main story), The character's actions had NO motivation at all other than for convenient scenes and it was two and a half tedious hours of middle age women spending money frivolously and doing things that made no sense!
In fact I want to hug you b/c if this makes you feel this bad still after 5 months I realize how much you actually care about me." I could go on and on with endless examples, like at the end when the women say they love cosmopolitans and wonder aloud why they stopped drinking them (Carrie says, "Because everyone else started").
I was frightening to see, that some people in the cinema found something funny in this movie...All the male characters are retarded losers, they are all gay, wimpy, infantile, or just big-d*ck f*ck machines.The movie suggests, that as a women, the meaning of life is gathering bags, shoes, and other useless sh*t, to the extent where you need a separate room - actually the biggest room of your apartment - to store all these sh*t.
Says Kim Catrall (who plays Carrie's friend Samantha), "It was about women joining together as the new family, girlfriends sticking together through thick and thin." As a girl-bonding movie, it certainly works.
And then, there's Carrie, the indefinable one." Their TV personas are already developed and, unlike many TV-shows-made-into-movies, Sex and the City doesn't try to go overboard but develops existing characters and situations.Although everything in the film is well-signposted, I don't want to give anything away.
Carrie is a successful author yet, when contemplating a new flat with her man, she lets him pick up the bill, "like he was picking up the check for coffee." The romantic dénouement is based on what would, without the happy Hollywood coincidences, be deemed stalking in real life.The best part for me was seeing Jennifer Hudson, who plays Carrie's assistant Louise.
Although the clip from Meet Me in St Louis rather reminded me of what a really good movie looks like, Sex and the City, however enjoyable, isn't one.
It provides the dual fantasy of apparently liberated woman while retaining the old penchant for ball and chain."I want people leaving the movie theater feeling, 'all right, great, that was a lot!'" King says.
Ya like a guy said, "Honey why don't you go stuff yourself"Because Sarah J Parker's character had so little self respect that a break up by a dude who even acted too old to be fun, (and was clearly unstable himself) destroyed her and degraded her into the "why-does-life-suck-only-for-me" friend we love to babysit .
Be advised: if you have the slightest amount of intelligence, you WILL feel like this movie is just an attempt to squeeze a few more pennies out of the TV series, making no efforts whatsoever to deliver quality film time to fans or first-timers.
Miranda and Steve's storyline was the only one actually worth watching and credit is due to Cynthia Nixon and David Eigenberg for pulling something decent out this.Overall it just doesn't live up to the standard of the series and at times you just want to slap Carrie Bradshaw with her Manolo and tell her to get over herself (that quote came from a female friend of mine who used to idolise all the SATC girls).
Well, believe it or not, I'm a fan of the series (let's face it, it's pretty lewd and often features Kim Catrall in the buff, going at it like a woman possessed!), and so I thought I'd check out the film to see how well it made the transition to the big screen.Not very well, I'm afraid to report!Instead of sexy, smart, and sassy, Sex and the City: The Movie is saccharine sweet, slow, silly, and superficial.
Rather than seizing the bull by the horns and allowing the girls to be even more outrageous and daring than usual, the film's creators have sucked the format dry of everything that made the show so much fun, and delivered an overlong piece of manipulative and schmaltzy pap that feels reserved in comparison with the series.Gone are the risqué sex scenes featuring the four stars (only Miranda is seen getting a good seeing to; the rest of the girls keep it under wraps); gone is the witty banter about taboo subjects such as masturbation, the taste of semen, and anal sex (even the word 'sex' is considered too strong for one scene!); and gone is all the charm, wit and insight that made the original programme so irresistible: all that is left is a predictable love storyand that ain't what the title promised!.
There wouldn't seem to be much room for any new characters, but we are presented with Louise, a vivacious girl from St. Louis who gets hired as Carrie's personal assistant.If the film does disappoint, it's probably during the middle which sags a bit, probably because King's approach to the story lines still retains the episodic nature of the series.
One reason: Movies and TV shows like Sex and the City, People magazine, America's Next Top Model, All things MTV, Celebrities, etc.
"SATC, the movie" does top the series in the number of haute couture dresses and the sheer size of the format that we see in those all too long two hours, but in every other conceivable way almost any fan is in for a big letdown.What was a show filled with snappy wits and sex appeal is now a tear filled drama of four forty-something year olds trying desperately to find the way back to their fastpased Manhattan days of old.
I loved miss Hudson in Dreamgirls, but she was totally under-utilized here and served no function as any of Carrie's friends could have been used to serve the purpose of this role.All in all, the movie felt like an extra-extended TV episode, and I mean that in a good way, as everything felt totally in-synch with the TV show, the sets, the lighting, the performances all working in perfect unison.
The television show transitioned seamlessly onto the big screen, never missing a cord or ever leaving the audience bored.The clothes are better and the friendship is stronger than ever.It was a beautiful ending to the story of the 4 women in NYC who found one another while in search for that special something that lead them here...and in the end, they did all while never compromising their friendship.I love-love-loved it, and I plan on seeing it again.If you are not a fan of the show, I still recommend the film, it will surprise you..
I will most likely be buying it for my other half so I could end up watching it again in a few months when it comes out on DVD.Seriously what can I say more, I am a guy that went to the cinema with his other half because she wanted to watch the film so much and I actually enjoyed it.
I'm not a massively huge fan like my friend is or my mum for that matter, but I found it quite touching(brought tears to my eyes about 4 times) and a touch of reality to the way female friendships and relationships were portrayed.Acting: Cynthia Nixon was probably the standout in this to me, cause the hurt in her eyes during a particular scene in the film did move me.
Unlike a lot of users on this site, I don't spend the time, trying to find fault or checking for continuity etc, I just lose myself if the UNreality of it all and the fantasy.If your a fan of Sex and the City you'll love this, if you've never seen the series I think you can still enjoy the film as you would any other rom com or chick flick..
I love this movie so much i am going to see it on it's actual release date in the UK tomorrow, just to see the other audiences reactions, unfortunately I have to keep the plot secret because it is what makes the film even more amazing, the anticipation of what will happen!
As a fan, I wanted to follow the stories of four women in Manhattan in search for "the two L's: Labels and Love." The 148 minutes long movie tried to cram the stories of four friends after we said goodbye to them four years ago but it did not exactly succeed and it lacks humor and wit of the show.
The film picks up where the show left off but four years have now passed, Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker) is in a relationship with her long-term love interest Mr Big (Chris Noth), Miranda (Cynthia Nixon) is balancing family life with a full-time job, Charlotte (Kristin Davis) is still married and has adopted a Chinese daughter whilst Samantha (Kim Cattrall) is enjoying a successful career in Los Angeles.
The girls literally go in, watch it, then leave and go back to the story.Sex and the City certainly isn't a good film, but similarly isn't the fiasco it easily could have been had King decided to introduce a number of new characters and focus less on the awesome foursome.
So this is a straight guy's perspective and not a gay one who went to see the "fabulous" designs!As a SATC fan, I really loved the movie, and I thought it DELIVERED!
I admit it, I'm a girl, I have never seen one episode of Sex and the City, it never sparked my interest and when I heard about the movie coming out, I was sure that I wouldn't wanna see it, but I was invited by some friends of mine today and I got to see it for free, so what would I have to loose?
Now maybe it's a good thing I haven't seen the show because I don't have to compare it, but I think, oh, my god, I can't believe I'm say this, but I may just start watching the series.Carrie just got everything she's ever wanted along with her friends: Miranda, Samantha, and Charolette, they are just living the highs of life, love, and really big closets with name brands.
But in the mean time Carrie is just trying to get back to life with her friends.Sex and the City, no, it's by no means a guy's movie, in fact I think that's the reason for the low rating here on IMDb, a lot of guys do resent this film.
And as a HUGE, GIANT fan of Sex & the City, I believe Michael Patrick King pulled it off.You can guess, by the trailers, about certain events that happen, and I kind of wish they didn't give out so much, but they ARE promoting a movie, and have to, but in general, I was glued to my seat the entire time.I cried from sadness, I cried from laughter, but mostly, I was just so happy to see my girls again!
First of all i want to say that I am a guy.I was not a huge fan of the show as I only watched some of the seasons of with my girlfriend,and all i can say is that the movie is far better than the shows, like it should be.I found this movie really entertaining, it was really funny, way depressing, watchable, and it makes you feel like you're in their world like a good movie should.This movie is not just about 4 girls, its about 4 relationships that anyone can relate to.
I think they made a great movie to finish the Sex and the City story..
if you don't enjoy this film you are not a true sex and the city fan, it has everything you want, it ends how you know everything should be.
Not only that, this is a movie for chicks who loved the series, because, if you did, you have a background of several years to understand the characters, how they act and what drives them.
I do not think a man would really enjoy this and it is unfair for men to give it a bad review.It would be like me going to a Jean Claude Van Dam film - sorry I do not know anything more up to date - it would just be a waste of time.So if you love fashion, romance and escapism set against the wonderful backdrop of NYC this is the movie for you.Regards, Gill..