A Timeless Christmas

I really enjoyed this Christmas movie. The time travel storyline along with some quality acting made this one (which is my 15th) my favorite thus far this 2020 Hallmark Christmas movie season. The script was pretty good too. Some nice heartwarming dialogue, which I liked (Charles Whitley speech, e.g., at the Christmas party). The acting was good. Erin Cahill had a strong performance; I have always thought she performed well in such roles. Ryan Paevey, the other lead, also had a good performance on the screen. And the chemistry between the two was fairly good, though I think we could have gotten a bit more from the male lead (Ryan) here. The props, dress, scenery and sets were beautiful. It was well done. I also enjoyed the Christmas atmosphere and feel of the movie, which is one of the things I like about Hallmark films. Overall, a very good Christmas movie by Hallmark this year. It is worth a watch.

Kudos to Hallmark for reaching beyond the usual holiday-romance formula and adding an element of science fiction. This film includes time travel and the dialogue even mentions H.G. Wells' classic "The Time Machine".

Industrialist Charles Whitley (Ryan Paevey) awakens one morning to find he has been transported more than a century into the future. He meets a beautiful twenty-first century woman, Megan Turner (Erin Cahill), who decides to help him return to his own time.

The first part of this story is very similar to "Time After Time", which is an excellent film from 1979 (not to be confused with "Somewhere in Time").

The two leads are excellent in their roles. Paevey is fairly convincing as the human anachronism, balancing mild bewilderment with romantic interest.

In the spirit of the holiday season, I sat down to watch the 2020 Hallmark Christmas movie titled "A Timeless Christmas", believing it to going to be just another super cheesy and sappy romantic Christmas movie that Hallmark spews out by the dozens. And with Ryan Paevey on the cast list, I must admit that I definitely believed it was going to be one of those archetypical Hallmark movies.

But still, as I hadn't already seen "A Timeless Christmas" from writers Duane Poole and Ron Oliver, I sat down to watch it and give it a fair chance.

And I have to say that since December 1st, I have sat through more than twenty Christmas movies and "A Timeless Christmas" definitely ranks among the top three of most enjoyable and entertaining of Christmas movies thus far.

I really liked the storyline in "A Timeless Christmas", so writers Duane Poole and Ron Oliver definitely managed to put together a very wholesome and entertaining story.

They had cast some nice talents for the movie, and it was refreshing to see Ryan Paevey (playing Charles Whitley) to rise up and shed the mantle of a dime a dozen Hallmark Christmas movies, because he was so well-cast for this movie and carried the movie quite nicely along with his co-star Erin Cahill (playing Megan).

"A Timeless Christmas" was so much more than the archetypical romantic sap and cheese that Hallmark tends to push out there during the holiday seasons. And if you enjoy Christmas movies, then you must certainly should take the time to sit down and watch "A Timeless Christmas" from director Ron Oliver.

My rating of "A Timeless Christmas" lands on a well-deserved seven out of ten stars.

A different story for the Hallmark universe. The directing was nearly flawless.... The " family" feel of the cast as it seamlessly blended to tell a story both imagined and real. Paevey is lead and as should be, steals it , makes it believable with Cahill's support. Excellent, subtle, and totally interactive chemistry-between the two and the cast, and director himself make this movie real. Loved every bit of it... please more of this total package.

This was a beautiful Christmas film by Hallmark. The premise is about a wealthy business man who disappears a week before Christmas one hundred and fifty years ago and wakes up at his desk in contemporary times. His home has been turned in to a museum, his factory torn down, his fiancé married having married his rival who became great benefactors to the town, and his maid-Rosie's great granddaughter running the museum that is his house offering tours.

Rosie's granddaughter, Megan, initially doesn't believe that he is who he says he is...although the resemblance to the painted portrait in the front hall is striking. Could he be Charles Whitley? Megan actually did her college thesis on Charles Whitley, so no one knows more about him than her. When she notices the horseshoe shaped scar on his hand and Charles is able to direct her to a secret compartment under the floorboards...Megan becomes a believer. Megan decides to help Charles get back to his time.

Together they piece together the events of his last night, he was repairing a Christmas clock for his fiancé and he winds it on the second full moon in December, called the Christmas moon. Megan finds the clock and they are ready for the next Christmas moon. Meanwhile, Megan shares with Charles all of the Christmas traditions that he was always to busy to participate in...and learns that he was afraid to get close to anyone afraid he might loose them. During the process Charles learns what he has been missing and starts to fall in love with Megan. Will he return to his time in the end?

Will Megan leave the museum and become a history professor at the local college?

Ryan Paevey was wonderful in this film...as was Erin Cahill playing our two leads. They had wonderful chemistry and really made these characters come to life. It was a magical story, just what Christmas is all about.

I loved the emphasis on old fashioned manners...something really lacking in today's day and age. It just went to show how good manners are always appreciated and never go out of style!

Romantic, magical and filled with love and Christmas. Loved the film and think that if you are a fan of Hallmark that you will love it too.