Sometimes you fall in love with the boy next door. Sometimes you fall in love with a man 117 years older than you that happens to be your professional obsession. No biggie, right?
Ryan Paevey plays Charles Whitley, a 1903 businessman/inventor. As he tries to fix a clock he purchased for his fiancée, he accidentally time travels to 2020. Megan Turner (Erin Cahill) is a historian who is giving Christmas tours at the Whitley mansion when Charles arrives. It is up to Megan to teach him about the 21st century and try to get him back to his proper time.
This isn’t a new plot device. It is still a little weird. Charles isn’t a very nice man. While he is polite, he frequently talks down to people he thinks are lesser. He gets over that….eventually. It seems that the only reason people like him is because he is rich and somewhat famous. That is a terrible reason to like anyone.
I can see why people would like movies like this. The female lead gets to take care of the hapless male and teach him about the ways of their world. I find it creepy. Can you imagine having to explain almost everything to your significant other? He might be familiar with the concept of a car but definitely not a 2020 version. Television, cell phones, computers, the internet….air conditioners, refrigerators, radio (these things may have been invented in the late 1890s but they probably weren’t in most households in 1903)…even the food we eat is different. It would almost be like dating a child. Gross.
With that said, if you look beyond the ickyness of dating someone from another time period, A Timeless Christmas is kinda cute. I don’t know that I could recommend watching it. But you aren’t going to want to gouge your eyes out or anything. There are probably better time travel romance movies out there. They just aren’t Christmas themed.