Next Stop, Christmas

Though there might be some minor plot holes in this time-bending Hallmark holiday romance, they are not enough to derail this imaginative reimagining of the "Groundhog Day" conceit, which begins with a train ride to yesteryear.

Lyndsy Fonseca stars as Angie, a neurosurgeon who finds the Christmas season less than enchanting. Christopher Lloyd plays a mysterious ticket agent who engineers a sidetrack off the path of Angie's life. She gains the opportunity to rework her life, learning lessons about love and family along the way.

The camera loves Lyndsy Fonseca and she projects an energetic authenticity that is winning. In fact, all the cast is enjoyable to watch. And they are given dialogue that feels real, not like some romances where every line feels canned.

This enchanting tale is worthy of watching and appreciating again and again.

Back during 70s, 80s, and 90s and into the early 2000s, ABC, NBC, or CBS used to have a new Christmas movie during the holiday season, usually showing up on a Sunday night somewhere between Thanksgiving weekend and mid December. Sometimes they were Hallmark Hall of Fame Christmas movies, but mostly they were made for TV Christmas movies. For the most part, those movies had more thought and creativity put into them than most of what we see now on the Hallmark networks.

This movie reminded me of those movies much more than those Hallmark networks Christmas movies that we see now. It's a little "Groundhog Day", a little "The Family Man", some "Back to the Future", and a healthy helping of "Eve's Christmas", although there are original twists to this particular story. Lyndsy Fonseca, who just recently co-starred in the Disney Plus series "Turner and Hooch" does a great job as Angie as she travels 10 years into her past and then has to figure out what she needs to do to get back to the present. Along the way she learns things about the people she loves that she should have known if only she had opened her eyes to the world around her. Christopher Lloyd also puts on a nice performance as the ticketmaster/train conductor.

Yes, the last few minutes are predictable, but so what? It's not the destination that makes or breaks this movie, it's the journey that puts this movie quite a few notches above the standard Hallmark Channel Christmas movie and one that makes it well worth watching.

I like it !

I write this very rare about a Hallmark christmas film but Next Stop, Christmas is just...special. The basic motives - first, christopher Lloyd in an enigmatic, providential character skin , offering serious dose of seduction. Second - lovely aunt Myrt proposed by Erika Slezak. Not last - the handsome Chandler Massey and eric Freeman.

Not the last, the story and the beautiful work of Lyndsey Fonseca, real loved by camera. I do not ignore the Frosty box, off course.

But the good spice remains something easy to define as magic realism, good used for a fascinating story about a secret desire animated by many from us and the atmosphere of fairy tale (the memory about Polar Express by Robert Zemeckis was a red line in my memory seeing this movie ).

So, bashful, I admitt - I like this film !

What a great surprise this film was. One of the best hallmark Christmas movies. I enjoyed the story and I enjoyed the actors the most. The chemistry between the leads is great too. It's corny yes but it's a cute Christmas movie.

Very nice time travel movie to find love. Not a cheesy Hallmark Christmas movie, but you might get all the feels anyway. I always enjoy a surprise ending and this one wasn't predictable (maybe a little) until the last 10 minutes.