A Newport Christmas 8/10
This movie actually turned out to be good. This time of year we watch holiday films and they are either fine or horrible. This one I enjoyed because there were actual stakes. It is 1905 and this spinster named Ella Stewart Grafton from Newport is a nice ass lady living her single life and being nice to everyone. Her dad wants to marry her off to some guy she never met while she wants to start a charity for the less fortunate in town. Her dad is like “You too much like ya dead mama. Bump that. Your new husband coming soon.” Ella leaves to on her boat to do what rich independent women did and that is talk to the stars. She wishes for a true love and different life. Next thing you know a man is on the boat wondering how she got there and she gets scared and upset that he is on her boat. This guy is Nick. He cool. He look like the lovechild of Alec Baldwin and Brenden Frasier. Oh, and it is 2025.
Nick used to be in the Coast Guard and is a historian. Ella is baffled by everything happening in 2025 and ends up fainting/ He takes her to the estate that is a museum and her former home. Nick thinks that she is a cosplayer and goes along with it while his coworkers think that he needs to keep an eye on her. Ella loves that women wear pants and can be bosses. The people from present day try to keep as much information about Ella's history so that she doesn't know what her own future is. At this point they know she is for real cause she knows far too much information about her past as well as random secret things they don't know. Ella is precocious and after being shown the internet finds out about herself as well as who she marries. Nick and Ella start falling for one another but know it can't happen cause she needs to go back to 1905. Oh, and they discover that there is another time traveler. I won't spoil the rest of this because its actually good. Like I mentioned there are actual stakes to Ella not going back home. There was only one instance involving a Christmas tree in a room full of people vanishing where I thought “None of y'all saw that?!” Otherwise I enjoyed the rest. We watched this on Hallmark via Philo.
Ginna Claire Mason as Ella Stewart Grafton
Wes Brown as Nick McManny
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