Sex and the City- Detailed Summary
Detailed Summary
‘Sex and the City‘ is a romantic comedy filled with wit, drama and of course, plenty of sex. The movie opens four years after the events of series’ finale. The four friends have moved on with time though they continue to search for the best way to juggle their jobs, relationships and friendships. Carrie, the narrator in the film, is looking for an apartment with Mr. Big so that they can move in. In the course of their search she falls for a penthouse suite far above their price range. But Mr. Big, gallantly, agrees to pay for it. However, Carrie has serious doubts about the practicality of such arrangement since they are not married and she would have no legal rights in case they decide to go separate ways. To quell her fears, Mr. Big suggest that they should get married.
Samantha has moved with Smith Jerrod into a beach house in Los Angles. Smith is a successful TV actor now. Samantha shuttles between LA and New York, dividing her time between Smith and her friends, rarely finding time for herself. She is giving monogamy her best shot but apparently even her best is not good enough. She is constantly grappling with her desire to have sex with other men especially her striking and sexually active next door neighbor Dante (Gillies Marini). Charlotte is leading a happy and contented life with her husband Harry and her adopted Chinese daughter Lily. Life could be perfect but for her one unfulfilled desire of having her own child. Miranda has her hands full with a career as lawyer, a home and a child. She is trying her best to juggle it but confesses to her girl friends that she and Steve did not have sex for almost six months. The last straw comes when Steve confesses to his one night stand which leaves her devastated and she leaves him immediately.
Carrie plans her wedding so meticulously that soon her plans get escalated into a lavish event. Mr. Big begins to have second thoughts about the whole idea. Things take a ugly turn at the rehearsal dinner. Miranda, still upset over Steve’s indiscretion, after an argument with him, tells Mr. Big brusquely that Carrie and he must be crazy to get married as marriage ruins everything. On the appointed day Mr. Big develop cold feet and to Carrie’s utter disbelief and horror, he refuses to go through with the wedding. Devastated and humiliated over the betrayal she flees from New York Public Library where ceremony was supposed to take place. Mr. Big subsequently has a change of heart and he intercepts Carrie’s limousine but she attacks him with her bouquet and screams her dismay at him. Miranda and Charlotte give her furious looks but to no avail. However, four friends take the Honeymoon Carrie had booked to Mexico and make use of that time to de-stress and rejuvenate. While they were in Mexico, Charlotte discovers that she is pregnant.
After returning home, Carrie hires an assistant Louise (Jennifer Hudson) to assist her in managing her day to day affairs and with her help moves back to her old apartment. Miranda subsequently discloses the conversation which had taken place between her and Mr. Big at the rehearsal dinner to Carrie, leading to a temporary rift between the two friends. Miranda later reflects on that particular conversation with Carrie and agrees to go for couple counseling with Steve. Things take turn for better when they are able to sort out their problems and issues eventually leading to their reconciliation
Samantha resorts to overeating to keep herself from cheating on Steve with Dante. She finally realizes that her relationship with Steve is taking a toll on her and she needs to put herself first. They break up and she moves back to New York.
A chanced encounter with Mr. Big makes Charlotte so agitated that she goes into the labor. Mr. Big takes Charlotte to the hospital and waits there till baby Rose is born hoping to run into Carrie. His hopes are dashed to the grounds but Harry understands what’s going on in his mind and delivers the message to Carrie that Big would like to talk to her. He also informs her that he has been writing to her regularly despite of not receiving any reply from her. Carrie searches her correspondence for his mails before it dawns on her that Louise must have kept his mails password protected from her. Actually, Carrie had once proclaimed that she wanted to severe all ties with him and Louise had taken her words quite literally.
Going through his mails, she realizes that he had sent her dozens of letters copied from a book named Love Letters of Great Men Vol. 1 that she had shown him weeks before their proposed wedding. The last letter was written by him where he had shown remorse over his thoughtlessness and apologized for screwing up the wedding. He had ended the letter by promising to love her forever. An hour before the locks of their shared penthouse are scheduled to be changed, Carrie goes there to collect her mint condition Manolo Blahnik shoes she had left there. She finds Mr. Big in the walk in closet he had got made for her. Her anger and resentment dissipates the moment she sets her eyes on him. They both fall into each other’s arms and kiss passionately. They spend rest of that hour talking and apologizing to each other. Mr. Big proposes Carrie again using her diamond encrusted shoe instead of a ring. They marry alone this time in New York City Hall. A simple wedding where Carrie wears her original wedding dress she had bought from a vintage shop, is followed by a get together with friends at a local diner.
The film closes on four friends celebrating Samantha’s 50th birthday while sipping Cosmopolitan sitting around a table in a restaurant.