A Grand Ole Opry Christmas (2025)
Hallmark all-in on the partnerships this year!
Co-produced by Hallmark and the Opry, this movie serves as something of a love letter to the Grand Ole Opry, simultaneously a movie about family, love, country music, and the history of the Opry itself. And shown through the veil of some Christmas magic with cameos and country Christmas crooning galore.
As a Christmas movie I thought it was alright. I appreciated the ugly sweaters Dr Miller from The Santa Clause would be proud of, and the 90s era country duds were great. For a movie that had some time travel as a central story driver, it didn’t feel too twee. However, I am becoming convinced that Kristoffer Polaha might actually be a time traveler - I mean, he’s great when in a period piece and maybe they’re just an opportunity for him to feel like he’s in his “real” timeline for awhile?
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.
Cameos by: Bill Anderson, Brad Paisley, Dailey & Vincent, Drew Baldridge, Jamey Johnson, Maggie Baugh, Megan Moroney, Mickey Guyton, Pam Tillis, Rhett Akins, Riders in the Sky, Suzy Bogguss, Tigirlily Gold, T Graham Brown
You’ll like this if…
You enjoy some country Christmas music and are better at recognizing current Nashville stars better than I can.
