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'Sex and the City' movie may lack wide appeal

For a film aimed primarily at 'older' women of 30 and up, box-office watchers wonder if it'll have the oomph for a hit.

Hollywood worships so-called four-quadrant films: movies that draw males and females both young and old. "Sex and the City" might appeal to only a single audience slice, but its following among older women already is so robust that the film could soon prove its doubters wrong.

Few films have polarized audiences more than May 30's long-awaited cinematic adaptation of the influential HBO show....

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