Next Stop, Christmas
- by Kari Drake and Duane Poole, directed by Dustin Rikert
- Feature Film
- Fantasy, Romance
- Adults
- Definite Time Travel
- English
- Next Stop, Christmas by Kari Drake and Duane Poole, directed by Dustin Rikert (Hallmark, USA, 6 November 2021).
Angie is too busy at work, doesn’t want to face her parents’ divorce, and has her mind stuck ten years in the past when she turned down a marriage proposal from the guy who became Tyler Grant, famous sportscaster. So she’s going to send Christmas on her own in Yonkers—except that the train ticker seller/conductor has other ideas that involve her reliving that Christmas in Connecticut ten years ago.
—Michael Main
That was a long time ago in a galaxy far away—can’t turn back time.
Tags
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- Time Periods
- Circa AD 2000 to 2099: Angie's home time (2021) and past time (2011).
- Timeline Models
- Do Over
- In a Changed Timeline, You Have Memories of Both Your Other Life and Your Changed Life: When Angie returns to 2021, she has memories of her decade without Ben; but when she finally meets up with him, her decade with Ben comes back to her.
- Time Travel Methods
- Time Portal: At the end, the train seems to open a portal through time.
- Time Vehicles (motorized): the train
- Real-World Tags
- Fictional Tags
- Dickensian Guides: The train conductor is a borderline Dickensian guide.
Variants
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- Next Stop, Christmas by Kari Drake and Duane Poole, directed by Dustin Rikert (Hallmark, USA, 6 November 2021).
Indexer Notes
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- Writers—DiPippo, Gernhard, and O’Connor are credited at the [url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15412176/fullcredits/[IMDb[/url] as providing the story concept, but we didn’t seen any direct reference to them in the movie credits or sources that were not derived from the IMDb.
- Cast—Angie’s mom is Lea Thompson and the train conductor is Christopher Lloyd. Does that make Marty her brother and the train a DeLorean?