By Michelle Nichols
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Do Carrie and Mr. Big marry or don't
they? That is the question "Sex and the City" fans hope is
answered when the long-awaited film about love and friendship
in New York City hits theaters worldwide this week.
Writer Carrie's relationship with a financier known as Big,
the love lives, and fashion choices, of her friends --
publicist Samantha, curator Charlotte and lawyer Miranda --
enthralled millions of television viewers during six seasons.
And now four years after the series ended they are back
with fans desperate to know the fate of Carrie and Mr. Big.
"Those people who like the show will expect the joy and the
good times and the whimsy and the clothes and the cocktails and
the salty language," said actress Sarah Jessica Parker, who
plays Carrie and also produced the movie and TV series.
"But what they might not expect is that the shank of the
movie is pretty sad," she said.
Based on Candace Bushnell's autobiographical columns in The
New York Observer newspaper, the TV series won eight Golden
Globes and seven Emmys and made Manolo Blahnik shoes and the
Cosmopolitan cocktail household names.
The movie picks up where the series ended -- Carrie and Big
are together, Samantha is in Los Angeles with her boy toy,
Charlotte and her husband are raising their adopted Chinese
daughter and Miranda is in Brooklyn with her husband and son.
"I always knew the big story left untold was literally the
'Big' story -- would Carrie and Big get married? What would
that be if they did or what wouldn't it be?" said Michael
Patrick King, writer and director of the film.
