In 1985, with the acclaimed , and then in 1990 with the exhilarating , David Thomson delivered unprecedented fictions in which the characters were figures from film noir and the Western. Now a trilogy is completed with . Why Connecticut? Because that lovely, liberal state has been set aside as the resting place for every disturbed person in the nation! At first, this seems like an opportunity for meeting up with the merry ghosts of Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, Carole Lombard, William Powell and Margaret Sullavan. We get glimpses of , and . But then the wild comedy darkens as we realize that Connecticut itself is on the edge of a demented and cruel war that challenges all its inmates to keep seeing the comic side of mishap and madness.