A Grand Ole Opry Christmas

Are those heartstrings on Gigi? Gentry travels back in time to write a song with her Daddy who passed away before she could in her timeline. Does that pic those heartstrings? It does for me.

Add to that her longtime friend, Mac, going with her. He's been crushing her for a long time.

The Grand Old Opry is a special place and country musicians are special too. I think it is well known that they treat their fans special. They understand Respect. The movie includes several short cuts of country singing and a full song to close the show. I'm not a knowledgeable fan, but I assume many of them are real stars. Also I never knew before about The Circle.

The story progresses in a way that kept me bound to the screen. Great story.

Kris Polaha and Nikki Deloach have great chemistry although their story splits screen time with Jett and Gentry's story.

I'm sure others have noted that Polaha did another similar time travel movie 2 years earlier. And a few years before that there was a movie about Nashville music with a Christmas Carol flavor. All on Hallmark.

For me this is unquestionably the best Hallmark Christmas movie of 2025, so far. Best of any new one on any network, so far. I will definitely watch this again.

Hallmark should cast Nikki DeLoach and Kristoffer Polaha in more movies together! Their "good people" chemistry together was magical, but that's not the main focus of this movie. I won't give much away but the story is a fantastic fantasy that is both sentimental and very uplifting. And there is lots of good country music and cameos by lots of Opry stars!! I loved it.

Besides the fact that movies with time travel or magic are more interesting than the usual "girl from big city comes home to small town for christmas to work at the christmas tree farm" theme, anything with Kristoffer Polaha makes me happy. Nikki DeLoach was perfect as always. This was fun, touching and different. Loved it!