"Illeana Douglas's well-written and highly readable book about the state of Connecticut in the movies, from the silent era to modern times is sparked by her wit and warmth, her deep knowledge of movie history, the originality of her ideas, and her impeccable research. --Jeanine Basinger, author of Hollywood: The Oral History and A Woman's View, chair of Film Studies, Wesleyan University "In Connecticut in the Movies, Illeana Douglas puts on her historian's hat and takes readers on a compelling tour of her adopted state's surprising, colorful, and sometimes dark history in cinema. Her adoration of the state, and the movies, leaps off of these pages--and it's infectious."--Ronan Farrow, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist and New York Times best-selling author of Catch and Kill"What connects my favorite Barbara Stanwyck film to Sarah Jessica Parker's most underrated movie, The Family Stone? The answer, I've discovered, is the Nutmeg State. Connecticut, it turns out, has a rich, engrossing cinematic history, brought to life by the best person for the job, Illeana Douglas. She left Hollywood during the pandemic and returned to Connecticut, where she grew up, bought a fixer-upper, much as Cary Grant and Myrna Loy--as Jim and Muriel Blandings--did in Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House. Turns out, she also wrote her Dream Book.

"--Ben Mankiewicz, host, Turner Classic Movies, correspondent, CBS Sunday Morning"The best sort of movie book feels like a well-curated time trip. Illeana Douglas is the ideal guide here: She loves movies, and she loves Connecticut. One of the great pleasures of Connecticut in the Movies is the way the author both recaps the film story and gives us the inside location lore with equal ease. Connecticut's role in the history of the movies reaches back beyond Griffith, and Douglas--with roots in Hollywood as well as the Nutmeg State--is the perfect docent." --Michael McKean, actor, Better Call Saul, The Mighty Wind, screenwriter, and musician"As an aspiring New Englander who wound up in Los Angeles, I greatly enjoyed going through this lively, fact-filled, well-written book. Douglas illustrates why and how Connecticut becomes a character in so many movies, from Bringing Up Baby to The Last House on the Left". --Leonard Maltin, film critic, author, and historian"This book should come with a warning: Highly Addictive." --Sydney Stern, author, The Brothers Mankiewicz "Connecticut in the Movies is Illeana Douglas's brilliant deep dive into the Constitution State's heretofore overlooked but voluminous role in American films".

--Alan K. Rode, film historian and author, Michael Curtiz: A Life in Film.