This looks really interesting, and it's available at amazon.co.uk.

Romance & Cigarettes

http://www.filmbrain.com/filmbrain/2007/01/queens_the_musi.html

A movie with James Gandolfini, Steve Buscemi, Kate Winslet, Susan Sarandon, Christopher Walken, Eddie Izzard, Elaine Stritch, Mary-Louise Parker, Mandy Moore, Barbara Sukowa and Kumar.

A musical.

Written by John Turturro.

Set in blue-collar Queens, in the flight path of Kennedy Airport, and described as "Mike Leigh meets Dennis Potter."

And for various reasons it looks like it'll never been released, much less available on DVD, in the US.

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I need to be independently wealthy. I'm uncovering too many things that I'd have to buy to see right now.

Actually, it sounds like you get it pretty well. And I'd suggest a lot of brides are obsessed about other things (how wonderful things will look, how expensive the wedding will be, what kind of dress they can wear) than the union with a man to a life devoted to God and their mutual salvation, which is exactly what a Christian marriage is supposed to be.

I was watching Giant, but had to cry uncle somewhere in the second hour. Apart from Jimmy Dean's terrific physical characterization of resentful roughneck Jett Rink, and George Stevens trying desperately to make like this is some great work of art, there's no earthly reason to watch this film. Bland, plastic characterizations matched by bland, plastic performances by Elizabeth Taylor and Rock Hudson, who, initially, lends a disarming gentleness to his western macho icon, but quickly discards this for a nauseating pomposity. A major problem is I don't know who I'm supposed to root for. Sure, Jett's violent and uncouth, but I still sympathise more with his desperate attempts to mak something of himself than with the Benedict's American-Aristocrat self-satisfaction which, the plot arc implies, would be entirely okay if they could just learn to be a touch less racist.