Starring: Erin Cahill and Ryan Paevey
Released: 2020

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A Well-Done Time Travel Romance
Wind once at the Christmas moon, true love will find you soon.
Had you ever heard of a Christmas moon? The movie explains, it’s like a blue moon–or two full moons in the same month. When this happens in December, it’s considered a Christmas moon (you learn something new every day).

When Charles awakes, he’s in the year 2020, his house is a museum, and he’s surrounded by strangers. Everyone thinks he’s been sent by the agency that provides performers to the Whitley Mansion to entertain visitors–except, he can’t seem to stop playing the part, even when no one is watching. The sheriff intervenes and takes him to the station.
Before Charles can be committed to the looney bin for claiming his birthday is in 1870, Megan Turner, the museum director and descendent of Rosie the maid, comes to his rescue. Not only did she see the tell-tale horseshow scar on his hand, but he also proved his identity by pointing her to a secret compartment in the floor under the rug in his study. She finds his journal, filled with drawings of his inventions.
Is This Story a Hat Tip to A Christmas Carol?
Hallmark Deviates From the Usual Formula

The Biggest Plot Hole
Times Change, But Not Always For the Better
Is Their Romance Believable?
These days with Hallmark, it seems like there are 60 minutes of commercials for every 60 minutes of movie. Within these time constraints, it’s challenging to make two people falling in love believable with such brief interaction.
When a movie, like A Timeless Christmas, is based on a novel, it’s always a good idea to read it, since the love story has more room for development.
The viewer can assume that since Megan did her college dissertation on Charles Whitley, she was fully immersed into his life for an extended period of time. Equipped with all the knowledge she gleaned from her intense study, she applied what she learned in her job at the museum. Think about it–each day, Megan pretends to live in Charles’s house and time period, and she makes this history come to life for visitors. When Charles appears for real, she would already feel a profound connection to him. It’s like she already knew him.

Charles’s attraction is a little harder to defend. Deep down, he knew he didn’t really love Eliza, but finding out that his arch enemy married her would have been a huge blow to his pride. He worked hard to earn his wealth, so to find out he’d lost it all after he disappeared would have been a bitter pill to swallow. One would think he’d be motivated to return to the past to make changes to impact the future outcome. Megan might take him under her wing and help him navigate the vulnerable situation in which he finds himself, and Charles likely finds comfort in knowing she’s Rosie’s descendant. Still, Megan really doesn’t do anything outstanding that would make Charles want to linger in 2020.
Regardless of how plausible Charles’s attraction to Megan is, A Timeless Christmas is an absolute delight. Even the era-specific vocabulary Charles uses can make the viewer a bit nostalgic.
Does this movie earn a permanent place on the DVR until it’s released to DVD? YES!
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