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6.9/10   57 votes
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Director:
Daniel Petrie
Writers:
Robert Anderson (play)
John Vlahos (writer)
Contact:
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Release Date:
16 December 1969 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama more
Plot:
Over the Christmas holidays in a small New England college town, a man and a woman share a brief interlude... more | full synopsis
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Awards:
Nominated for Primetime Emmy. Another 1 nomination more
User Comments:
Charming, although so very little actually happens more

Cast

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Lloyd Bridges ... John Sparrow
Shirley Jones ... Katherine Johnson
Lynn Carlin ... Jennifer Sparrow
Carrie Snodgress ... Janet

Cloris Leachman ... Ginny

Robert Lipton ... Philip
Richard Eastham ... Paul Johnson
Stefan Arngrim ... Jerry Johnson
Nydia Westman ... Mae

Woodrow Parfrey ... Dr. Hyatt
Edward R. Leadbetter ... Mac the cab driver
Walter Boughton ... Walter, the desk clerk
Amzie Strickland ... Saleswoman
Marjie Short ... Young Ginny (as Marjorie Anne Short)

Jeff Bridges ... Young John (as Jeffrey Bridges)
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Additional Details

Runtime:
98 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.33 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Filming Locations:
Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
Company:
Universal TV more

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Trivia:
Many buildings on and near the Amherst College campus were used in the filming of this movie. more
Soundtrack:
Let It Be Me more

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5 out of 5 people found the following comment useful:-
Charming, although so very little actually happens, 28 December 2000
Author: billteas from Washington, DC

The film is watchable, especially if you have a soft spot for homey New England countryside in wintertime, or for Lloyd Bridges or Shirley Jones in fairly small roles. They circle each other, she: self-depriving and disciplined by principle, stunted socially; he: rougish in a restrained and admirable sort of way, but refusing to divulge a lie to her.

There is a hilarious scene in which John Sparrow (Lloyd Bridges) takes an afternoon jaunt on a Ski-Doo snowmobile, tearing around, laughing out loud and bailing out. This fad must have been in full swing in 1969 but looks bizarre and forced as an 'amusement' activity now! Later they take a picture perfect sleighride through Robert Frost country and you wish you were along.

Post-Airplane, it's indeed hard to see Lloyd Bridges open a bottle of scotch whiskey without saying aloud "Looks like I picked the wrong week to give up drinking!" Seeing son Jeff Bridges play Lloyd in a flashback to his college days (scene is shot inside the old Amherst College "Cage" basketball gymnasium) is fun. Carrie Snodgress appears as a student with her boyfriend, who admonish John and Katherine as the "establishment types" for their old tired ethics, and all share in the merriment of the season....

Cloris Leachman is wonderful in a cameo as the townie whom John may or may not recall from his past.

Nice film to watch at Christmastime -- the action all unfolds in the day or two before Christmas, and resolves on Christmas morning.

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