"A Biltmore Christmas" ......Grandeur, Love & Hollywood All In One Movie!

There are many great Hallmark movies, but this one is one of the finest.

Set at the beautiful Biltmore during the holidays, Lucy Hardgrove, a screenwriter (played by Bethany Joy Lenz) is sent there to get some inspiration. There she finds an hourglass that when it’s turned upside down, sends her back to the 1940s when an original movie named “His Merry Wife” was produced.

She meets an actor that starred in the movie named Jack Houston (played by Kristopher Polaha) who was said to have passed away one year after the shooting of the movie. In typical Hallmark fashion, Lucy and Jack fall in love, but how does she tell him she’s from the future and wants to go back, but most of all how does she warn him about December 24, 1947, the day he supposedly died.

You’ll forget whatever else is on your mind while watching this one, because who isn’t intrigued by time travel? You’ll love the grandeur of A Biltmore Christmas, the clothes, the cars, the tinsel on the tree and the lingo of the 1940s. Bethany Joy Lenz and Kristopher Polaha do an outstanding job, just as they always do. We need a good fantasy every once in awhile.

Philippians 3:13 (NIV)

"Brothers and sisters, I do not consider that I have taken hold of it.  But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead"

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"Journey Back To Christmas"

You will never know how you may have impacted someone else’s life by a kind word or deed.

Time travel has long been an intriguing topic for anyone with an imagination. Candace Cameron Bure’s portrayal of an intelligent, sensitive, kind WWII Nurse, who, with the help of a miraculous comet, is sent to the future, only to find that her seemingly mundane acts of kindness during her lifetime in the 1940s, were not so ordinary. They led others to heartfelt, inspiring gifts.

She does have the sympathy of one Police Officer, Jake, (played by Oliver Hudson) who feels she must just be confused and with his help can get to the bottom of these strange happenings. So he brings her to stay a his family’s farm taking full responsibility for her.

Sent 71 years into the future, she is confused and disappointed at some of the changes within the town. People fear her to be some sort of a con artist until she starts talking about how things were in town back in the day. When taken to Jake’s family’s farm home, she says she knows this place, it’s the place where she bought her milk. Questionably, Police Officer Jake, does some research and finds that his family farm back in the 1940s was indeed a dairy farm. She claims the town’s gazebo was always decorated at Christmastime. Jake questions his mom, played by Gwynyth Walsh, and she had no memory of the gazebo being decorated for the holidays. Then while in an antique shop, she finds a post card that dates back to the 1940s of the town with a picture of the gazebo fully decorated for Christmas.

Many memories are found to be true, making it more believable that Nurse Hanna, (Candace Cameron Bure) is telling truth.

This movie exudes a great deal of warmth, caring and the uncovering of what one life can do to impact so many others. “Journey Back To Christmas”

Galatians 6:10 (NIV) 

“Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all people, especially to those who belong to the family of believers”

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"A Holiday Spectacular"

We once had dreams, remember them? Maybe we didn’t have the opportunity, but if we see our offspring wanting to do it their own way, maybe we should remember our time not so long ago.

Set in 1958, Maggie, (Ginna Claire Mason) who is from a very affluent family of Philadelphia, is preparing to enter into an arranged marriage.  She is not in love with her fiance.

She is a trained dancer, who, on a whim, is coaxed by a friend to try out for the Radio City Rockettes.  Maggie lands the last open spot and is expected to report in NYC on November 1st to begin rehearsals for the Holiday Season.  Knowing that her parents would forbid it, she tells them she wants to go to NYC to look for a wedding gown and meet with a top designer, who happens to be an Aunt of one of her friends who she can stay with.

With no real plan in place, Maggie goes to NYC thinking that she’ll find a way to extend her stay when the time comes and she does.  

The Rockettes live in a boarding house with a strict house mother.  There Maggie is exposed to the real world which is far from the privileged life she has lived.  From learning that if you run the hot water too long, it runs out, to wearing pants on the street (not something that was done much by young women back in the 1950s).  She makes some very good friends and learns there’s much more to being a Rockette than dancing; it’s a sisterhood; they look out for and support each other.  

Maggie learns to love this life; she feels independent and fulfilled by doing what she loves, dancing!.  

During the movie you’ll see the challenges of being an independent woman of that time.  She meets a young man, John, (Derek Klena) who also has his own dreams and aspirations, but expectation is that he would take over his family’s business. They both face similar dilemmas.  Through it all, they make each other confront their own feelings.  Maggie learns what real love is like.  

This movie is introduced as a story being told by none other than Ann-Margaret who plays the older Maggie.  She is looking back on her life as a Rockette and sharing her story with her granddaughter.    

You’ll love seeing NYC in the 1950s, the cars and the clothes.  You’ll especially love the dance routines; the Rockettes are flawlessly in sync, as always.

Psalms 149:3 (NIV)

“Let them praise his name with dancing
    and make music to him with timbrel and harp.”

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