The cult TV series hit the big screen in 2008 with more of the same – love, heartbreak, fun and lots of shopping and glamorous frocks for Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker).
Format for the feature remained unchanged – four women, best of friends supporting each other through thick and thin. And when Big (Chris Noth – TV’s The Good Wife), the on-off-on-off relationship with Carrie, finally pops the question, it looks only good. But as Big literally jilts Carrie at the (New York Public Library ballroom) altar she spirals into depression. Her frame of mind mirrors the friends’ lives as the independent women come to terms with getting older and the associated responsibilities.
New York – the city of dreams. Director Michael Patrick King pays homage to the city as much as the friendships of the four women. It’s slight, entertaining, glamorous – and moreorless forgettable, a shadow of the earlier TV series.
Rating: 52%
Director: Michael Patrick King (TV’s A.J. & the Queen, 2 Broke Girls)
Writer: Michael Patrick King (TV’s A.J. & the Queen, 2 Broke Girls) – based on the book by Candace Bushnell
Main cast: Sarah Jessica Parker (The Family Stone, Failure to Launch), Kim Cattrall (The Ghost Writer, The Bonfire of the Vanities), Cynthia Nixon (The Only Living Boy in New York, A Quiet Passion), Kristin Davis (Holiday in the Wild, Deck the Halls)
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