![]() ![]() Deer Lake Park in Burnaby, B.C., to recover. Then Cahill finally drops the big, incredibly obvious reveal that Charles’ 1903 fiancee, Eliza, married his big bad business rival (scandal!) and Charles has to go for a walk in Evergreen (holy shared universe, Batman), a.k.a. Oh, Hallmark, you can even make a time travel romance seem rote. Either Kenny is the worst museum director ever, or a whole slew of Charles Whitley Mansion cleaning staff need to be let go immediately.Ĭahill’s character repeatedly tells Charles how much the world has changed…All while they proceed to fall in love in a way that would have seemed chaste even for 1903, like decorating a Christmas tree at her parent’s house, and going Christmas shopping. I mean, seriously, no one has moved that (brand-new looking) rug in over a hundred years? Because that cut out is super obvious. The way Charles convinces Cahill’s character, who did her dissertation on Whitley, he’s the real guy, is via a secret scar on his hand, and a much less secret space beneath the floorboards where Charles hid a journal in 1903. Though not quickly enough for Paevey, who asks her at about minute 10 of the movie, “You still don’t believe me, do you?” I mean, dude, you just popped into the present about 20 minutes ago, maybe give her a night to sleep on it? ![]() Paevey plays Charles Whitley, an early 1900s inventor, who buys his fiancee a Christmas clock, then after repairing and winding it on Christmas Eve, wakes up to find strangers in his house, now a museum, filming him with iPhones.ĭespite how jarring all this would be, Paevey’s Charles seems pretty non-plussed at all the future tech, laughing at a joke about Internet cat pictures, and figuring out what a cell phone does in seconds flat, despite also being scandalized anyone would wear “dungarees” on a public street.Įrin Cahill’s museum docent/Charles Whitley-maid cosplayer also is pretty quick to accept the whole, he’s-a-time-traveler bit. Sorry, every-other-Christmas-movie, your director is definitely not this awesome. From the movie-spanning mythology that is “Kenny Kwon,” to just being the gosh darn best, Ron Oliver elevates every project he touches, including A Timeless Christmas, based on the (Hallmark) book by Alexis Stanton. Sure, he’s behind the camera, not in front of it, and I guess people like that Ryan Paevey guy, who also made Christmas at the Plaza with Oliver last season, but, seriously, Oliver is a treasure, and I hope Hallmark knows that. If you don’t know who director Ron Oliver is, you’re missing out on one of Hallmark’s most delightful stars. This magical holiday romance includes a free Hallmark original recipe for Stuffed Crust Italian Pizza.Where to Watch?: Hallmark will replay it multiple times this season, and for every season in perpetuity Could it be that, somewhere in time, they belong together? But as Megan introduces him to the wonders of smartphones, pizza, and modern holiday traditions, they both feel a once-in-a-lifetime connection. But when he repairs a mysterious clock he bought on his travels, he’s transported to the twenty-first century, with his home decorated for Christmas and overrun by strangers.Ĭharles is determined to find a way back to his own era, especially when he learns about what happened after he left. An inventor and businessman in the early 1900s, he rose from poverty to wealth…only to disappear without a trace.Ĭharles was always intrigued by the future. As a tour guide at a beautiful historic mansion, she tells visitors about its original owner, Charles Whitley.
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