Sex and the City has been released nationally.

When it comes to screen size, bigger is definitely better! Sex and the City promises to answer all of the lingering questions – will Carrie and Big finally tie the knot? Can Samantha really be satisfied with just one man? Will Charlotte ever fall pregnant? Can Miranda and Steve actually live happily ever after?

Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker), successful author and everyone’s favourite fashion icon-next-door, is back, her sardonic wit intact and sharper than ever, as she continues to narrate her own story about sex, love and the fashion-obsessed single woman in New York City.

Sex and the City finds Carrie, Samantha (Kim Cattrall), Charlotte (Kristin Davis) and Miranda (Cynthia Nixon) four years after the hit HBO series ended, as our favourite fashionable femmes continue to juggle jobs, friendships and relationships while they start navigating motherhood, marriage and Manhattan real estate. Some of them may even – brace yourself – brave other boroughs outside Manhattan.

The cast includes Chris Noth reprising his iconic role of Carrie’s handsome, yet elusive, Mr Big; David Eigenberg as Miranda’s down-to-earth and sweet, yet simple, husband Steve Brady; Evan Handler as Harry, Charlotte’s dependable and loving husband; and Jason Lewis as Smith Jerrod, an actor and client of Samantha’s, as well as her devoted lover.

By the time Sex and the City ended its run on HBO, its audience had grown exponentially with new fans discovering the series on DVD and in syndication. In 2004, the series aired its last original episode, preceded by a media blitz befitting its huge following and place in the cultural lexicon.

Even those with only a passing knowledge of the show knew it featured independent, smart, sophisticated, single women with a taste for Manolo strappy sandals, Magnolia Bakery cupcakes and the crispest Cosmopolitans that the newest Big Apple hot spots had to offer.

Reuniting the creators and cast in a feature film seemed a natural next step in the story of the four women. For Sex and the City star and producer Sarah Jessica Parker, there was no question that anyone other than Michael Patrick King would write the story for the film.

"Of course, there would be nobody else to tell it, I knew he could do it," she says. "He’s a really gifted romantic comedy writer and I just felt like I couldn’t do it without him.

"I got to fall in love with four women for many, many years and hold them in my heart, even when we weren’t doing the series," King said.

Sex and the City is rated MA15+ and is screening at Birch Carroll & Coyle.

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