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Release, runtime and language
1969 · 98 mins · English
Directed by
Daniel Petrie
Starring
Jeff Bridges, Cloris Leachman, Woodrow Parfrey, Lloyd Bridges, Carrie Snodgress, Stefan Arngrim

During the Christmas holidays in a quiet New England college town, a man and a woman find themselves sharing a fleeting connection. He has traveled to see his wife, who is a mental‑patient at the university, while she is visiting her son, a student, after learning of her husband’s infidelity. Their brief interlude unfolds amid the season’s melancholy.

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