Rating: 🎄🎄🎄🎄
Premiere Date: November 29, 2025
Description: Gentry Wade (Nikki DeLoach), daughter of late country music icon Jett Wade – half of the famed duo Winters & Wade – abandoned her dream of a songwriting career and distanced herself from her father’s legacy following his tragic accident 30 years prior. When the Grand Ole Opry invites her to represent Jett at their centennial celebration at Christmas, she’s hesitant to return to the place steeped in bittersweet memories. Encouraged by her good friends, Gentry visits the Opry and, while seated in one of the vaunted venue’s oak church pews, is suddenly transported to 1995. Gentry’s lifelong friend Mac (Kristoffer Polaha) a country music talent manager, finds himself in 1995 as well. Thanks to some Christmas magic, Gentry gets precious time with her father, creative inspiration to finish the song she began decades earlier as a teen and learns surprising answers to questions about her father that have followed her for the last three decades. Starring Nikki DeLoach and Kristoffer Polaha.
Chemistry: Polaha and DeLoach are seasoned pros, and it shows. Polaha plays the best-friend-who’s-secretly-in-love-with-her perfectly, and throwing them into a situation where they have to pretend to be married? Fantastic choice.
Plot: Even my wife—who despises time travel plots on principle—loved this one. There were some quality 90s references and I loved that the leads were forced to reckon with their feelings before the end so there could be more resolution than a last-minute kiss.
Design: It was Christmas at the Opry… and 90s Christmas at the Opry. And they really pulled it off.
Overall: A strong, heartfelt movie that genuinely got me choked up more than once, especially during Gentry’s scenes with her father.
Best Enjoyed With: An appreciation for 90s country music and maybe a couple tissues.
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