This is the movie I've been waiting for this season without knowing which one it would be! In fact, I didn't expect it to be Time for You to Come Home for Christmas. Last year's version was OK, but not one to hold my breath for. Hallmark Movies and Mysteries usually has a story that really grabs my heartstrings. They had a couple very early in the season, especially the one about MS, but I wanted more. I wanted this movie.
You know pretty quick that Jack's backstory is going to tie into Katherine's, or at least someone pretty close to her. The movie leads us along in a sort of mystery as to what is Jack's quest. I thought I had a pretty good idea what it was going to be, but a couple of details didn't seem to fit, so I wasn't sure. I think the writers intended for the audience to have a good idea what was coming while still holding something back for the reveal.
Alison Sweeney sets it up for us as her story progresses and we see her pain and her longing for what is lost and will never be the same. She needs to heal, but she has put herself in a kind of limbo avoiding the healing she and Will needed. Kiefer O'Reilly helps Sweeney establish the emotions of the backstory, but Will is handling the loss in a slightly different way. And Lucas Bryant plays the reserved vet but without obscuring his feelings and personality as is so often the case in the reserved leading man. Each pair of the three has great chemistry as well as the three all together.
The reveal was for me almost too early. But this gave Sweeney a chance to show Kat actually process the news and then truly begin healing.
You know pretty quick that Jack's backstory is going to tie into Katherine's, or at least someone pretty close to her. The movie leads us along in a sort of mystery as to what is Jack's quest. I thought I had a pretty good idea what it was going to be, but a couple of details didn't seem to fit, so I wasn't sure. I think the writers intended for the audience to have a good idea what was coming while still holding something back for the reveal.
Alison Sweeney sets it up for us as her story progresses and we see her pain and her longing for what is lost and will never be the same. She needs to heal, but she has put herself in a kind of limbo avoiding the healing she and Will needed. Kiefer O'Reilly helps Sweeney establish the emotions of the backstory, but Will is handling the loss in a slightly different way. And Lucas Bryant plays the reserved vet but without obscuring his feelings and personality as is so often the case in the reserved leading man. Each pair of the three has great chemistry as well as the three all together.
The reveal was for me almost too early. But this gave Sweeney a chance to show Kat actually process the news and then truly begin healing.