Film Excess - Free Ukraine - Stop Putin - End the war NOW!!: Sex and the City (2008) - Parker & Co. return with delightful gusto in King's great debut

10/26/2019

Sex and the City (2008) - Parker & Co. return with delightful gusto in King's great debut

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In giant, glittering pink types, this simple poster for Michael Patrick King's Sex and the City promises more of the unabashed feminine escapism that was the TV-series' trademark

Carrie and Big, the New York society writer's long-time on/off handsome boyfriend, negotiates their way to a wedding, which is prepared by Carrie; but something goes wrong, and both of them and friend couple Miranda and Steve break up.

Sex and the City is written and directed by feature-debuting Michael Patrick King (Good Advice (1994, TV-series)) and is the movie continuation of the same-titled 1998-04 hit TV-series, which King also wrote for and executive produced.
Yes, this is fluff and totally ridiculous in many ways, but if you stick with the film past its first twenty minutes, I bet you won't want to leave it for its following two hours.
The four regular stars are all back in enthusiastic top shape in a fine, rousing, ultimately touching story, which seems to round off two of the most important relationships from the series perfectly.
Kim Cattrall (City Limits (1984)) is fabulous and delivers several of the film's funniest moments as Samantha, who also seems to move on somehow as a character, although whereto is unclear. Sarah Jessica Parker (Miami Rhapsody (1995)) is simply wonderful as Carrie and acts every moment real and to-the-bone.
The production is fittingly flamboyant and delicious to behold in terms of cinematography, design and locations. - But it is especially the costume department that deserves praise, headed by Patricia Field (He's My Girl (1987)), because the outfits contribute in making Sex and the City extra exciting, wild, funny and worth seeing.

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2008 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED II]

Mr. Big proposes to Carrie in this clip from the movie

Cost: 65 mil. $
Box office: 415.2 mil. $
= Huge hit (returned 6.38 times its cost)
[Sex and the City premiered 12 May (London, UK) and runs 145 minutes (a 151 minute extended cut also exists.) Cattrall was critical of a film immediately after the series' conclusion. HBO co-financed the film with Time Warner sister company New Line Cinema. Shooting took place in California, including Los Angeles, and in New York from September 2007 - January 2008. More than 300 outfits were used in the film. It opened #1 to a 57 mil. $ first weekend in North America, where it spent another week in the top 5 (#4) and grossed 152.6 mil. $ (36.8 % of the total gross). The 2nd and 3rd biggest markets were the UK with 52.2 mil. $ (12.6 mil. $) and Germany with 27.1 mil. $ (6.5 %). Roger Ebert gave the film a 2/4 star review, translating to 3 notches harder than this one. King returned with Sex and the City 2 (2010), the hit movie's sequel, which also featured the 4 stars. Parker returned first in Did You Hear about the Morgans? (2009); Cattrall in The Simpsons (2004-09) and theatrically in The Ghost Writer (2010); Cynthia Nixon (Little Manhattan (2005)) in Lymelife (2008); and Kristin Davis (Mann & Machine (1992, TV-series)) in Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends (2004-09)) and theatrically in Couples Retreat (2009). Sex and the City is rotten at 50 % with a 5.55/10 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]

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Donald Sutherland has passed away

Born in Canada, Sutherland battled polio as a child. His first credit was in Suspense (1963, TV-series) and his first film was The Castle of the Living Dead (1964). Later credits in his remarkable career include The Saint (1965-66), The Dirty Dozen (1967), M*A*S*H (1970), Kelly's Heroes (1970), Klute (1971), Don't Look Now (1973), 1900 (1976), Casanova (1976), The Eagle Has Landed (1976), Ordinary People (1980), A Dry White Season (1989), JFK (1991), Outbreak (1995), Fallen (1998), Virus (1999), Fierce People (2005), Pride & Prejudice (2005), Lord of War (2005), The Hunger Games (2012), The Undoing (2020, miniseries) and many more. He passed away at age 88. R.I.P.

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Born in Detroit, Michigan, Corman had a sprawling, intellectually hungry life as a youth and young man before arriving with his first film in 1955, Five Guns West. He would follow that with titles such as Apache Woman, It Conquered the World, Attack of the Crab Monsters, Teenage Cave Man, A Bucket of Blood, House of Usher, The Little Shop of Horrors, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Intruder, The Raven, The Terror, The Masque of Red Death, The Tomb of Ligeia, The Wild Angels, The Trip, Bloody Mama and many more. As a producer he was behind almost 500 films. Arguably among the most important filmmakers of the 20th century, Corman passed away at age 98. R.I.P.

William Friedkin has died

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Louise Fletcher has passed away

Born in Alabama to deaf parents, Fletcher got her first credits in late-1950s TV-series.She took a 10 year-long sabbatical to devote her time to motherhood after the release of A Gathering of Eagles, but then came back and soon saw her career's most important part, as Nurse Ratched in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), for which she won her sole Oscar. Later credits include Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977), The Lucky Star (1980), Brainstorm (1983), Two Moon Junction (1988), Cruel Intentions (1999), A Perfect Man (2013) and many more. Fletcher passed away at age 88. R.I.P.

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Adopted from an orphenage at a young age, Liotta got hooked on acting in high school. He had various TV credits in the late 1970s and early 80s, with his film debut in The Lonely Lady (1983). Later credits include Something Wild (1986), Field of Dreams (1989), Goodfellas (1990), Cop Land (1997), Hannibal (2001), Blow (2001), Narc (2002), John Q (2002), Identity (2003), Observe and Report (2009), Youth in Revolt (2009), The Details (2011), Killing THem Softly (2012), The Place Beyond the Pines (2012), Shades of Blue (2016-18), The Simpsons (2018, TV-series), Marriage Story (2019), The Many Saints of Newark (2021), Black Bird (2022, TV-series) and many more. Liotta passed away at age 67 in his sleep while on production in the Dominican Republic. R.I.P.

Philip Baker Hall has died

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