Hallmark's Next Stop, Christmas

On this episode of Pour The Wine, It’s Rom-Com Time, Garry and Amy unpack Hallmark’s Next Stop, Christmas! In 2021, Angie (Lyndsy Fonseca), a successful surgeon with no plans to go home for the holidays, boards a commuter train after a mysterious conductor (Christopher Lloyd) hands her a ticket. But, when she wakes up in 2011, she gets a front row seat to her own past and realizes how just much she’s missed. Tune in for a heartfelt story about family, traditions, slowing down, and second chances. 

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Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:07

Welcome to Pour the Wine. It's rom com time, where we'll sip some wine and review all things rom com on the Hallmark Channel. I'm Amy.

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And I'm Gary.

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And today we're going to be reviewing Next Stop Christmas. It originally aired on the Hallmark Channel on Saturday, November 6th, 2021. And stars Lindsay Fonseca as Angie Reynolds and Chandler Massey as Ben Lee. Now we last saw Lindsay in single on the 25th, which we loved.

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Loved it.

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Love her. Love you, Lindsay. You can check out our podcast review of that movie in our repertoire.

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In our repertoire.

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She will be in the upcoming summer nights movie, The Love Heist, which is set to appear next month, June 20th, 2026.

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Yeah is flying by.

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It is. I know. I can't believe it. Chandler last appeared in a 90s Christmas in 2024. And you know, we haven't seen that one.

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No. No. We'll have to put that on our list.

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Yeah, I think we should, because a lot of people, I believe, enjoyed that one as well.

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Yep.

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I need to also mention a few of the supporting cast members in this one. Erica Sleezak plays Aunt Myrtle or Aunt Mert, as they called her. Call her. And what's interesting about Erica is I was a huge soap opera fan of All My Children. Now she was not in All My Children, but she was in One Life to Live, which I watched frequently after All My Children. She was on One Life to Live for like 40 years. Wow. She played Victoria Lord and had lots of other last names. Yeah, what a what a stint. But so loved seeing her in this. Eric Freeman plays Tyler, Angie's ex-fiance, current fiance, depending on where we are in the timeline. Leah Thompson plays Angie's mom, Evelyn, and Christopher Lloyd, of course, shows up as the train conductor.

SPEAKER_01 2:07

Train conductor, say.

SPEAKER_00 2:09

Yeah, we have that back to the future connection between Christopher and Lloyd and Leah.

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Yes, we do. Yes, we do. Well, next up, Christmas was directed by Dustin Riker. Dustin has directed andor produced several of our Hallmark favorites. He last directed 2025's Lost in Paradise, which we love.

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Yes, we did.

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And has directed the upcoming a grand Biltmore Christmas, which we are looking forward to.

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Very much looking forward to, and very much looking forward to heading to the Biltmore.

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That's right. Because we're going, baby.

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Yes, we are. Yes, we are.

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And next up, Christmas was written by Carrie Drake and Dwayne Poole. This is Carrie's Hallmark debut. I love it when they have these debuts.

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I know. I know. It's pretty exciting.

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Just go for your drink. Yes, I know. If you're gonna have a debut, this is a good one. This is a good one. Uh Dwayne wrote several Hallmark movies with his last credit being Holiday Hotline in 2023. But unfortunately, he's sadly passed away that same year. So here's to you. I'm gonna do a little cheers. Here's too cheers.

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Oh you can send us an email to pour the wine. It's romcomtime at gmail.com. And please do send us an email. Let us know what you think about the podcast, what you think about Hallmark Christmas movies or anything Hallmark related. We're almost half, well, we're not quite halfway through the year of 2026 so far, but let us shoot us an email and let us know what you think about the movie so far.

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Yeah.

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Uh in 2026 on the Hallmark channel.

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Yeah, I think Hallmark's doing a great job.

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It's been pretty, pretty strong. I mean, we're revisiting, of course, you know, older Christmas movies, but that's okay.

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That's okay. It's our tinsel Tuesday. We'll do what we're gonna do.

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It's our tinsel Tuesday that we like to drop. Yes.

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Don't miss anything.

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So let's drop the synopsis.

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Alrighty. Angie is determined to spend Christmas alone, but her usual commuter ride turns into a Christmas train that drops her off in her hometown in 2011. Ten years previously.

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And this is the part of the podcast where we tell you we dropped spoilers. So if you haven't seen the movie yet, which would be amazing if you haven't.

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Well, there might be some people we're discovering.

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Yeah, that's true. Um, turn us off or pause us, go watch the movie, come back, and let us know what you think in the comments down below.

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Or listen to the podcast and then go watch and then come back and let us know your thoughts.

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That one too.

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About the movie. All right, let's get into our review. Let's dive in.

SPEAKER_01 5:22

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 5:23

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 5:24

Do you want to go first? Do you?

SPEAKER_00 5:27

I, you know, we've seen this several times by this point. Yeah. And this is on our radar. We love Lindsay Fonseca. We really enjoyed this movie when it first came out. We weren't doing the podcast then, but we, you know, we've seen it many times since. It's just an adorable film that's heartfelt, but also, you know, has some fun along the way. You know, like I said, we love Lindsay, and she's so perfect for the role of Angie in this because, you know, she just plays the role so perfectly. Like she shocked at first, and once she gets over it, she dives right in to trying to figure out what's going to get her back to the future, so to speak. Right. No pun. See what I did there? It's just, and it's just also there's so many good nuggets in the this film. It's just such a good reminder that life moves fast, things aren't always as they seem. And memories have a funny way of becoming distorted over time.

SPEAKER_01 6:24

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 6:24

Or what you think was one way. Actually, there were things that were happening in the background that you didn't know about, you didn't realize, and it's different than what you thought. I mean, you know, I just really enjoyed this one. Despite the quirky music, which we're gonna get into a little bit later, I forgave the quirky music in this one.

SPEAKER_01 6:48

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 6:48

What about you? What'd you think?

SPEAKER_01 6:51

Um, first of all, kudos for the shout-outs to you know, Back to the Future with Christopher Lloyd. Yeah. I loved him as a train conductor on this.

SPEAKER_00 7:01

Yes, yes.

SPEAKER_01 7:02

And it kind of also for me. And Leah Thompson, she's just kind of reminded me a little bit of Polar Express, you know. Yes. Um, I just, you know, I loved the, like you said, the way she adapted, you know, and it took her a minute, but then she dove right into the being in the past and and getting things done.

SPEAKER_00 7:26

And wouldn't it take us all a minute? Because you'd be like, wait, what?

SPEAKER_01 7:29

I know. But back in the past. Yeah. Hey, can you give me those lottery numbers?

SPEAKER_00 7:34

Yeah, right.

SPEAKER_01 7:35

I love the second chances. I love the family traditions.

SPEAKER_02 7:40

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 7:40

Definitely love the Christmas decoration, especially the Reynolds house because it was decorated to the nines. I mean, wreaths and every window. I mean, so, so well done. And it wasn't a cheesy, you know, it no just every scene was was perfect. Um, and one of the things perfectly decorated, you mean?

SPEAKER_00 8:04

Perfectly decorated. Oh, yes, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 8:06

And you know, the way that it was shot and everything, but yeah, and the chemistry between her and uh Ben, it was it was pretty good. I I enjoyed it. So you want to get into some favorite scenes? Because I don't think we have a meat cute in this because they already knew each other.

SPEAKER_00 8:23

Yeah, there's no meat cute, unfortunately, because we're ready to rate it, but we can't because she already she's already met and broken up with her fiance, ex-fiance, you know, and then yeah, so there's really not an official meet cute. There's sort of like a re-meet cute, yeah, where she meets Ben in present day. I mean, I guess there was that one where he kind of runs into her in a bar and he didn't tell her they're childhood friends, and he didn't tell her he was in town, and he's been in town for what, a couple weeks or something.

SPEAKER_01 8:56

Yeah. And he didn't Yeah, and he didn't tell her.

SPEAKER_00 9:00

Yeah, and he didn't tell her. So it's sort of like a re-meet cute.

SPEAKER_01 9:04

Which was decent for a re-meet cute.

SPEAKER_00 9:08

A re-meet cute, yeah. Yeah, it was pretty good. It was pretty good.

SPEAKER_01 9:10

But I did love how uh Sabrina, I think she was wearing a red shirt, and um Angie was wearing a uh red shirt or a green shirt. I thought that was pretty cute.

SPEAKER_00 9:23

Yeah, you pointed that out actually. So they're so Angie and Sabrina are in a bar and it's towards the beginning of the movie. It's before Angie has gotten on the train to travel back in time. And um they're having a drink and they have the just like the most festive drinks, and they have cranberries in them, and you said, look, they're wearing red and green, and I hadn't even noticed that. So well done, costumer, right? It was cute. Kudos to them. Yeah, it was cute. It was a cute, and that's the scene that Ben walks in and he sees Angie and he's like, Oh my gosh, you're here. Angie, is that you?

SPEAKER_01 9:58

I know.

SPEAKER_00 9:59

So yeah, that was that was cute. All right, so as far as favorite scenes, um I would say it's after, so Angie gets on the train to go home. She's a surgeon, she's headed home, she falls asleep, she wakes up, she is back in, you know, it's 2021 when the movie was released and maybe filmed, maybe it was filmed in 2020, but um so she wakes up, she has gone, she finds out she has gone back in time.

SPEAKER_02 10:32

Right.

SPEAKER_00 10:32

Right. So I'm trying to figure out where um her dad, you know, has has picked her up and Tyler is with her because she isn't she's not engaged yet, but he is her boyfriend, and they arrive and at the train station, and her dad is picking them up. And then eventually she ends up getting dropped off at Santa's workshop. And this is a little bit later, she decides to tell Ben, who was her childhood friend, what's going on with her that she has traveled back in time.

SPEAKER_01 11:03

Right.

SPEAKER_00 11:04

And she is from the future. And he's like, You're gonna terminate me. And he kind of says it in the Terminator voice, which was so good. So good if you know the terminator. And then, um, and then they go to a diner and she's you know, she's trying to tell him that it's true. And he's kind of rasn her and he's like, you know, let me see your driver's license. Uh, are you a hologram like Princess Leia? You know, he's going into all these, and she's trying to tell him, you know, what's happened.

SPEAKER_01 11:32

He was like, Are you gonna pop up and say, Ben, I need your help, save me.

SPEAKER_00 11:37

Right. And then she tells him, you know what's gonna happen to you? You're gonna choke and I'm gonna save you. And he's kind of like, Yeah, whatever.

SPEAKER_01 11:43

On a gumdrop.

SPEAKER_00 11:44

Yeah, yeah, by a gumdrop. So I thought that was really cute. So the the Santa's workshop that kind of led into them then going, and she's you know, finally confided in somebody at that point, what's really going on. And he kind of believes her, right? Yeah, well, maybe, maybe not until he actually does choke.

SPEAKER_01 12:02

Right. And and the way she acted when it was going down. She's like, Oh, are you choking? Do you need me to help you to save?

SPEAKER_00 12:11

She's like, I'm so shocked that you're joking.

SPEAKER_01 12:15

Like, I told you so.

SPEAKER_00 12:16

Yeah, that was really, really cute, right? Because she knows what's gonna happen because she's been there before. Yeah, it was that's I think that's when he's finally on board. But yeah, that was another great scene. Not him choking, but her kind of being like, she kind of rolls her eyes, you know, he starts joking.

SPEAKER_01 12:33

It's so funny. It's a good thing.

SPEAKER_00 12:35

And then her sisters, her sister says something like, Who could have seen this coming? And Angie's like, right?

SPEAKER_01 12:40

Right, and I love when it did dislodge from his throat, it hit Tyler in the face.

SPEAKER_00 12:48

Oh, did it? I think I missed that on all the times we see it.

SPEAKER_01 12:52

He was like, ooh. So that was that was good. That was a good scene. That was one of my favorite scenes, too.

SPEAKER_00 12:58

What about you?

SPEAKER_01 12:59

Um, I just loved every scene where she fell asleep and woke up on the train with the case.

SPEAKER_00 13:05

Yes, I have that in my cheers. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 13:08

Those scenes were just oh man, it just took me back to those days, you know.

SPEAKER_00 13:15

What do you mean?

SPEAKER_01 13:16

Just Christopher Lloyd and Back to the Future. Because he kind of he was kind of the same character almost, not cuckoo crazy scientist, but he was always trying to tell um uh what's his name, uh, about the future and and to be careful and all that stuff. Marty, that's right, thank you. Um, but with her, every scene that she showed up on the train, she was getting closer and closer to figuring out how to get back. And I just thought it was really well done.

SPEAKER_00 13:46

Yeah, and the way she would like so they would transport her back on the train, you know, she would like go to turn off the light by her nightstand, and then all of a sudden she'd be back on the train.

SPEAKER_01 13:56

Right.

SPEAKER_00 13:57

Or it's so there were scenes like that. I thought those were really, really well done. They were what they kind of did to get her back on the train and then back to the past, not to the future, but then back to where she needed to be in the past. So yeah, I I agree.

unknown 14:12

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 14:12

So what was another one of yours?

SPEAKER_00 14:15

Um, I think when Angie, she's out with her dad now. So she's in 2001. No, I'm sorry, 2011. I took her back further than she went. Um she's in 2011, and in 2021, her parents are divorced, her dad lives in a different state, and she's kind of not struggling with, but she hasn't been home for Christmas because it's it hasn't been the same since this 2011 Christmas, right? She views as perfect, like the perfect Christmas. So when she's back in in 2011, she goes out shopping with her dad, and you know, she's kind of she's noticed things since she's been home that she didn't pick up when she was actually living it in 2011 of their distance, and you know, they're kind of bickering a little bit, but she asked her dad, you know, why they've been doing things separately, and she's realizing that she didn't see it before, and you know, she kind of she's coming to this realization of what's going on, and and she gets in the car and she the the door closes and all of a sudden she's back on the train.

SPEAKER_01 15:21

I yeah.

SPEAKER_00 15:21

It's kind of like what we were talking about. So I thought that scene, so she's you know, and then she says to you know, the conductor, Christopher Lloyd, she's like, You gotta stop doing that, you know, because and then she's that's when she's coming around, like, hey, Christmas in 2011 wasn't as perfect as I thought.

unknown 15:40

Right.

SPEAKER_00 15:40

She, as time went by, she's like, What? That was a perfect Christmas, everybody was fine. And then all of a sudden, you know, her parents got divorced and that was it, you know. And you know, things are always so much more than they seem, we all know. But the fact that she's realizing that, then she goes back to the train as like another nugget. I just thought that that was really well done. I I really enjoyed that.

SPEAKER_01 16:00

Yeah. It it it was uh yeah, because she's like, How did I not see that?

SPEAKER_00 16:05

Yeah, you know, and you don't, you don't pay attention when you're well when you're wrapped up in yourself a lot, yeah, and what's going on with your own life, it's hard.

unknown 16:13

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 16:14

Sometimes yeah. Yeah, another one of my favorites was the conversation with her sister.

SPEAKER_00 16:20

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 16:21

When her when Angie kind of overhears her sister about them, you know, not being able to get pregnant.

SPEAKER_00 16:29

And her sister and her sister's husband.

SPEAKER_01 16:32

Right. And so she they end up in the room in Angie's room, and they're talking on the bed, and they're just having that good old conversation about, you know, how come you never told me? And, you know, her sister was like, Well, you were never seemed interested in all that other stuff. So that was another part where she realizes, oh, so it wasn't so perfect back then because she didn't she never talked to her sister about the personal issues that they were going through.

SPEAKER_00 17:00

Well, and I and our sister says, you know, we don't have that kind of sister relationship.

SPEAKER_01 17:05

Right.

SPEAKER_00 17:06

Like we just don't. We don't that was talk all the yeah, that's like a real eye opener.

SPEAKER_01 17:11

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 17:12

Yeah, it was so yeah, I I have that that as well. Uh only one of the future conversations between the two of them.

SPEAKER_01 17:19

Right.

SPEAKER_00 17:20

As another favorite scene. But yeah, but that's sort of leading up to uh Angie's realizations about what was really going on in 2011.

SPEAKER_01 17:29

So and the the the part that I enjoyed the most was when she said, There's a little girl waiting for you in a couple of years.

SPEAKER_00 17:37

And I guess that's the future one I'm talking about.

SPEAKER_01 17:40

Yeah, so so that was yeah.

SPEAKER_00 17:42

So you fast forward towards the end of the movie and you have Angie and Kristen are I think they're are they on the bed again? They're laying on the bed and they're just kind of having a heart to heart like sisters usually do, and you know, and Kristen thinks Angie's favorite part was getting engaged, right? Right. And she she's like, no, the best part of Christmas is us getting closer. Right. You know, like she's you know, Angie's realizing that she's missed out on a lot of her sister. And I think, and it's always interesting to me when one person has one memory and another person has a different memory, right? So here Angie thinks, Oh, we're fine, we have a great relationship. You know, she's gone all these years, and then when she gets put back in the situation, she's just realizing what she missed. She was like for whatever reason, not for a bad reason, but just you know, oh gosh, I really didn't ask you questions about what was going on, you know. Right. I didn't see it. I wasn't look I was looking at you, but I wasn't seeing it, right? You know, so yeah, I agree.

SPEAKER_01 18:45

So you have any more?

SPEAKER_00 18:46

Um, I have a couple more. You talked about the one I love the fact that this is just a general thing. So her so Angie's working to try to get her parents, um, she's trying to recreate the party that her parents met at.

SPEAKER_01 19:04

Right.

SPEAKER_00 19:04

Which is Aunt Myrtle's, you know, annual Christmas Eve. Yearly, yeah, annual party that she has for Christmas on Christmas. It's on Christmas Eve, right? Christmas Eve. It's on Christmas Eve. And so she's recreating it by having the same carolers there if they're still alive, you know, because it was like a long time ago. But so Angie sets it up so that her mother has to wear the same dress that she wore 30 years prior to that party. Now I'm like, that's damn impressive if you could wear a dress from 30 years ago, because I cannot write this second. Uh that's so 30 years ago, there's no way. And I was like, that's a pretty good little I'm impressed. She's I know some people can, I get it, but you know, in 30 years, usually things have changed a little bit.

SPEAKER_01 19:51

But you know, I agree.

SPEAKER_00 19:53

I thought that was impressive, but I just had to throw that out there. Um the last fave scene that I'll mention is when it's towards the end, it's sort of like it's a reveal in a way. Kristen has given, she has excuse me, she has found a box, the frosty box.

SPEAKER_01 20:17

Yes. That's mentioned a couple of times in the movie.

SPEAKER_00 20:20

Right. Kristen has found a box that was given to Angie by Ben when they were kids. And Kristen has already given it to Angie, but she took out a letter that was in it because she didn't want it to ruin Angie's current relationship with Tyler.

SPEAKER_01 20:37

Yep.

SPEAKER_00 20:37

But towards the end, Kristen gives her the letter, you know, and she's like Angie reads the note, and I I don't think I wrote down what it said, but it's from Ben, and it's basically like Do you did you write down what it said?

SPEAKER_01 20:53

No, but it was pretty much like nowhere, no matter where you are or you know, how far we're apart, just know that I'll I'll you're always the one for me, or something like that.

SPEAKER_00 21:04

Right. And that's when that's her, that's Angie's realization when she reads it that you know, because she's been trying to find out, she's been trying to get back to the present. She has a train ticket, it's been faded. Hello back to the future. Um, and she's trying to get it to become unfaded. I don't know how to say it for the words to get back on her ticket.

SPEAKER_01 21:26

The the ticket said round trip, but the only thing that was on the ticket was just round.

SPEAKER_00 21:30

Right. So she's waiting for the word trip to come back so she can go back. So she can go back. And so at that moment when she gets the letter and she reads it, she realizes it was all of it. Her family, her mom, her dad, her sister.

SPEAKER_01 21:41

Her sister, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 21:42

You know, and and Ben. She realizes it wasn't just one because she was looking for one thing. Maybe if I do this one thing, maybe if I say yes to the engagement, maybe if I make it right with my sister, you know, but it was really all of it that she needed to look at and take another look at that made the difference. And then And that's what gets her back on the train to go back to the present.

unknown 22:05

Right.

SPEAKER_00 22:05

Right to the future.

SPEAKER_01 22:06

Right.

SPEAKER_00 22:07

Yeah. So I just I I really enjoyed that. And that's when she tells Ben, you know, hey, meet me in 10 years. And he's trying to get to the train before she leaves. And yeah, I just love that. And the music in that scene was great. Finally, they brought some good music. So Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 22:23

And that whole special effect with the wormhole or whatever you want to call it was really well done.

SPEAKER_00 22:28

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 22:29

With the train going through it. I mean, I I'm telling you, that that was just as good as back to the future type special effects.

SPEAKER_00 22:36

So I know we keep saying back to the future. And I I wonder if I I wonder if Dustin Reichert is a big back to the future fan.

SPEAKER_01 22:43

Probably.

SPEAKER_00 22:44

Because there were some nods to it. Yeah, for sure. For sure.

SPEAKER_01 22:47

Well, you had two of the actors on there, so well, yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 22:50

So but you know, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 22:54

Well, my last one, if you're if you're done, are you done?

SPEAKER_00 22:57

Yeah, yeah. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 22:58

No, it's was it you know, the the frosty box was mentioned a couple of times, and at one scene um Angie had asked him, if you had a chance to go back, you know, what would you do or what would you say? And he said, Well, that's between me and Frosty.

SPEAKER_00 23:16

So who Ben says that, right? So Angie had asked Ben.

SPEAKER_01 23:20

Right. If you could go back, what would you do, or what would you say? Right.

SPEAKER_00 23:23

Right.

SPEAKER_01 23:24

And he told her, Well, that's between me and Frosty.

SPEAKER_00 23:27

That's right.

SPEAKER_01 23:28

And he was referencing the box and the letter in the box, but she didn't know that because the letter was removed from her sister. But the the my best scene was when she finally gets back to the present and she's at the hospital and she realizes, oh my god, I'm late. I'm supposed to meet Ben because I told him in 2011 to meet me in this restaurant at this time. And she runs, she gets there, and she seems she feels like she's late or she thinks she's late, but then Ben calls her on the phone. And that whole scene that unfolded with her sitting down with him for dinner, and the waiter brings over this thing, and she goes, he goes, Well, she tells him something, and he goes, Oh my god, that that's that's like topped what is about to come. And she's like, What do you mean? And oh yeah, the the waiter puts down the the meal that's covered, and she goes, Is it my favorite spaghetti?

SPEAKER_00 24:26

You know, yeah, that one's funny. The way she says it, she's just the way she delivers it, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 24:32

It's so effortlessly or natural. But when when they lift it, when he she's talking and then the music builds up and he lifts it up real quick, right? And it's the box, and she's kind of like, Oh, the frosty box. And then she's talking, and then the music starts building again, and he opens it up and it's the ring.

SPEAKER_02 24:50

He used the frosty box for the ring as the ring for the ring holder.

SPEAKER_01 24:55

I thought that was so good.

SPEAKER_00 24:58

It was so good, good, it really was.

SPEAKER_01 25:00

It really, really was, and the look on her face, oh my goodness. Yes, so that was my last favorite scene.

SPEAKER_00 25:09

I I agree, and the music just builds up, it's so cinematic in that moment, and almost I I was trying to think of what movie the music reminded me of. Like almost, I don't even I don't even want to say any other movies because I someone you know will go, that's not right, but you know, yeah, no, it was very cinematic, Christmassy cinematic, right? You know, so but yeah, that that is a great the they really really shot that well, they played it, they acted it well, it was really well done.

SPEAKER_01 25:39

I I agree 100%. Yeah, so yeah, um let's move on to jeers or cheers. Cheers. How do I say jeers first? Cheers.

SPEAKER_00 25:49

Um, so for me, what I mentioned earlier, it really showcases how life moves fast. We're all so caught up in the busy of it all, right? That we miss really what's going on, and we're all guilty of it. I mean, I am, you are, we all are. And I mean, you know, when Angie has a heart to heart with her sister and her, you know, I I just all of that really, really worked for me. I just thought the look at relationships, the look at memories, the look at a busy life, you know, maybe slowing down a little bit. Um, things aren't what you think, you know, because Angie went home or Angie, you know, in 2011, she thought her parents were fine, but she really wasn't paying attention to their relationship. And then when she really saw it, she realized what was going on. So just all of it, the look at the relationships, right, life moving fast, all that would be a big cheer from me. Yeah um, I really enjoyed the scenes where she's transported back to the train, which we've already talked about. I think Leah Thompson's really good in this one. She's just she her acting is so effortless in this. And it's not like over the top. There were no like corny scenes for her to have to, you know, play out, but she she was just so and she's not like that. You know, I'm just saying that she just she was so good in it and natural, right? You know, and the pacing of the movie was great. Um, I already talked about the couples. I'm just glancing down my notes. The shot of Christopher Lloyd at the end when he's getting his shoes shined. You gotta mention that at the train station. That little bit of a big thing. And I'm telling you, when he winks, and then there's a little bit of music, and that is so reminiscent of Back to the Future. Yes, it is at the very end. Yes, it is.

SPEAKER_01 27:34

So I think he actually doesn't he do something like that in Back to the Future.

SPEAKER_00 27:38

He winks. Uh well.

SPEAKER_01 27:40

I'm gonna have to go back and watch him, but I think there's a a part in the end in one of them where it shows him last and he kind of looks at you like Well, does he do the roads where we're going? Where we're going. We won't need anybody.

SPEAKER_00 27:53

But yeah, so and the whole Back to the Future, you know, Chris for Lloyd, Leah Thompson, the faded ticket. That's like the movie. You know, the music at the end. I thought it was like it. So yeah. All right. What about you? Cheers.

SPEAKER_01 28:06

Just uh, you know, family means everything, you know, traditions, um, the conversations, the paying attention of what's going on with your family, the decorations, uh, um, the set work, the the the the shots, I thought were all well done. Um even on the train. And that you know what that train reminds me of the one on um finding Mr. Christmas when they did that little scene. It looks like the same train.

SPEAKER_00 28:37

Oh, really? I wondered if it is.

SPEAKER_01 28:39

I wonder if it is. Um the costumes, I think the red dress that Angie was wearing at the end with at the party. Angie's actually when she went to the party, that red dress? Or was it Angie or her mom? Angie.

SPEAKER_00 28:53

Evelyn.

SPEAKER_01 28:54

Well, both of them, but both of them. Okay, okay. I thought they were very beautiful. And um, and and Tyler, even though Tyler was set on his career, at least they didn't make him a jerk.

SPEAKER_00 29:06

Right, right.

SPEAKER_01 29:07

He he he was understanding about her not wanting to go, and he kind of knew the relationship her and Ben had. So kudos to that.

SPEAKER_00 29:17

That's true. They didn't make him like some bad guy. Yeah. He was kind of, I mean, he kind of got the short end of the stick a little bit too. He kind of got a little, you know.

SPEAKER_01 29:25

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 29:26

Because he was suspicious, but you know.

SPEAKER_01 29:28

Yeah. So that was much.

SPEAKER_00 29:31

That was really good. And I I like the I think we've seen it in a movie, and I I can't remember which homework movie it was. I was trying to remember what when you're talking about the relationship between Angie's parents, they are kind of quietly quitting each other.

SPEAKER_02 29:45

Right.

SPEAKER_00 29:46

Do you remember that? There was a there was some homework movie that we talked about where, and I thought that's such a good way of putting it where you you realize there's a gap, but you're not sure how to get back to what you once had.

SPEAKER_02 29:57

Right.

SPEAKER_00 29:58

And maybe sometimes you don't want to, but you know, they were kind of doing things separately and they just needed like a reminder of, you know, falling in love the first time. And I thought that was that was really good too. Because couples, you know, when your kids get older and they leave and you know, they do an empty nester. Yeah, yeah. When you become empty nesters, it's not great for everyone, and sometimes it makes it worse because all of your focus has been on the kids, and then all of a sudden you just have each other and you're like, what do we talk about? You know, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 30:26

Like, who are you, stranger?

SPEAKER_00 30:28

Like, what do we do now that we're you know that they're gone? So um, I thought that was a really good look into that.

SPEAKER_01 30:35

So you all right.

SPEAKER_00 30:36

What about jeers? Did you have any jeers?

SPEAKER_01 30:38

I really didn't have any. There wasn't anything um that stood out to me that I would go, eh. I didn't like that. They didn't need to do that.

SPEAKER_00 30:50

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 30:51

What about you?

SPEAKER_00 30:53

What do you think I'm gonna say?

SPEAKER_01 30:55

Music.

SPEAKER_00 30:57

You don't need the corny, quirky music. You just don't need it. I I don't know why. Like, okay, maybe, maybe like once. You know what I mean? Like, okay, you're gonna do it once just to get a little quirky music in there. I just I don't know why that bothers me so much. And this movie throughout it was throughout the whole movie until the end. And then the end they had that beautiful music at the end. The cinematic, but the score was so good. Why? Yeah, you don't have to do the other stuff. And I mean, I get it, you know, that was Hallmark's, you know, that's their style, that was their style, it's kind of what they were, you know, known for. But it just, yeah. So that would be my biggest jeer. It's always gonna be my biggest jeer when you have that type of music in there. Like I said, if you want to sprinkle it in once, fine, I can get over it. But it was like through the whole movie, right? You know, you can make it can be light and fun without that thrown in there, right?

SPEAKER_01 31:59

I agree with that.

SPEAKER_00 32:00

Kind of funny, take it tongue in cheek. You know, can you travel back in time? No, you know, like we all know that.

SPEAKER_01 32:06

Maybe we can. We just haven't found it.

SPEAKER_00 32:08

You have to suspend reality for a little bit sometimes when you're watching some movies, some Hallmark movies, you know. So, I mean, we get it. You just don't need the music to add to it. That's that quirky, corny music.

SPEAKER_01 32:20

At least they didn't have it when he proposed to her. So there you go.

SPEAKER_00 32:22

Right, right. No, it was good. It was good music then.

SPEAKER_01 32:24

Yes, it was.

SPEAKER_00 32:25

Maybe that was maybe that was the reasoning, you know, to I don't know.

unknown 32:30

I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 32:31

You had to make it stand out. So out of five ornaments, how many are you hanging on the tree?

SPEAKER_00 32:38

I would probably hang oh gosh. Um a solid, a solid four. I just really enjoy this movie. I I think it's really fun and light, and we've talked about all the all the things. I would give it a solid four.

SPEAKER_01 32:55

How about you? I'm giving it a four and a quarter.

SPEAKER_00 32:58

Four and a quarter. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 33:00

I just really enjoyed it.

SPEAKER_00 33:01

Yeah, I do too. Without the quirky music, I might have gone up a half a point.

SPEAKER_01 33:05

There you go.

SPEAKER_00 33:07

So all right. Four is still really good.

SPEAKER_01 33:09

Yes, it is. All right, so is that a wrap?

SPEAKER_00 33:12

That's a wrap.

SPEAKER_01 33:13

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SPEAKER_00 33:36

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SPEAKER_01 33:55

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SPEAKER_00 34:09

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SPEAKER_00 34:13

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SPEAKER_01 34:39

Yes, because we just love her.

SPEAKER_00 34:40

We well, and we just watched that one.

SPEAKER_01 34:43

Yep. So we're gonna watch that.

SPEAKER_00 34:44

Spoiler alert, it's kind of good.

SPEAKER_01 34:46

Yes, it is. It's kind of good. So there you have it.

SPEAKER_00 34:49

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SPEAKER_01 34:51

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SPEAKER_00 34:54

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SPEAKER_01 35:02

Cheers.