Time For You to Come Home for Christmas premiered on Hallmark Movies and Mysteries' Miracles of Christmas on December 8th and stars Alison Sweeney (Katherine/Kat) and Lucas Bryant (Jack). Britt Irvin (love her!) appears in a supporting role as Kat's sister.
RATING (out of 5): 🎄🎄🎄🎄 It may be a bit lower on rewatching but this one definitely pulled at my heartstrings.
General Movie Details: Kat lives in Boston and works at a bank and is traveling home for Christmas for the first time since her husband (Tyler) passed away (2 years before). Jack is a part-time musician and veteran who works for the USO and is filling in for a band/trio reunion in Provincetown, VA.
Meet Cute Moment: Kat while walking through the train station puts a "tip" in Jack's coffee cup because he's playing his guitar in a public place. Oops! And of course if turns out that they are seated across from each other on the train to Virginia.
Giant Christmas Decoration Sighting: There are both giant Nutcrackers and a giant Mouse King at a shop/location in Provincetown, VA. I love the addition of a Mouse King to the giant Christmas decoration options!
Obligatory moment of snark/personal rant: There is not much to say here, probably because I was really drawn into the story. The Jack mystery storyline really got to me because I was trying to figure it out and then figure out who is was looking to meet. I am glad that they didn't spell everything out for the audience at the beginning but let the story unravel. I really enjoyed the there of people coming into your life for a reason. It is a great outlook to take in your own life and works with the idea of mindfulness that many people are trying to incorporate into their lives. I also liked seeing Kat come to her realization of where and what she should be doing in the future. The seed of her future was planted in the flash back scene at the beginning of the movie and was part of the plot throughout so that her revelation at the end made sense.
I do admit that assigned seats on the train to Virginia is a bit of a stretch. I've taken Amtrak from NYC to Washington DC before and also in the Pacific Northwest and I've never seen assigned seats. There are assigned cars such as Business Class/First Class, the Quiet car and the Cafe car. I think that if you are on a sleeping car, then you may be assigned a cabin but on open cars this seems to go a bit too far. They could have gotten around it with a packed train car, which makes sense at the holidays, with a strategically placed empty seat. Besides then it adds to the fate aspect of the plot.
Hallmark Movie Connection: Alison is a Hallmark mystery mainstay with her Murder She Baked series and her new Chronicle Mysteries series (2019) which co-stars Benjamin Ayres. Lucas was previously seen in Summer Love (2016) with Rachel Leigh Cook.
Feel free to share your thoughts regarding the use of a mystery storyline as part of the movie.
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