Desc: Silent Night, Lonely Night: Directed by Daniel Petrie. With Lloyd Bridges, Shirley Jones, Lynn Carlin, Carrie Snodgress. Over the Christmas holidays in a small New England college town, a man and a woman share a brief interlude. He is there to visit his wife, who is a mental patient at the university, and she is there visiting her son, who is a student, after discovering her husband's infidelity.