'Christmas Comes Twice’: Release date, plot, cast and all you need to know about the Hallmark holiday movie

The film explores some path-breaking choices, life lessons learned, inspirations and musings that is guaranteed to be uplifting
 (Hallmark)
(Hallmark)

The joy and celebration of Christmas will be doubled as Hallmark Channel has come up with an impressive collection of feel-good films this festive season. Hallmark, as part of the network’s annual ‘Countdown to Christmas’ programming event, will be hosting a slew of magical films. Of the exciting collection of films that will give much respite this pandemic is ‘Christmas Comes Twice’. The film explores some path-breaking choices and introspection by lead characters. It is interspersed with life lessons learned, inspirations and musings that is believed to be thoroughly uplifting.

(Hallmark)

Before we head to watch it, here is what we need to know about the delightful film.  

Release date

‘Christmas Comes Twice’ releases Sunday, December 13, at 8 pm ET on Hallmark.
 

Plot

The official synopsis of the movie reads, “Cheryl Jenkins (Mowry-Housley) is an astrophysicist who works for the National Science Foundation reviewing grant applications for projects, although she’d prefer to be working on a project of her own. Cheryl heads home to spend the holidays with her family and first on the agenda is a visit to the annual Christmas carnival with her sister Trish (Zarrin Darnell-Martin, “Burden of Truth”). While there, Cheryl sees a carousel in the distance and ventures over to take a ride. But when the revolutions wind down and she returns to the carnival to find her sister, Cheryl discovers that — somehow — it’s five years earlier. Dissatisfied with where she is in life, Cheryl sees this as a chance to change her path by making different choices. As Cheryl navigates her way through her visit back in time, she’s able to connect with her beloved science teacher Ms Nelson (Sheryl Lee Ralph), who was an inspiration to her both in and out of the classroom and had passed away several years previously. The time Cheryl spends with Ms. Nelson as well as with her “frenemy” George (Michael Xavier) helps her find a new appreciation for what she’s doing in life and starts to see George in a new light. But when the carousel returns Cheryl to present-day Christmas with lessons learned, will the love she found be waiting for her?”
 

Cast

Tamera Mowry-Housley as Cheryl

Tamera Mowry-Housley(Hallmark)

Tamera Mowry-Housley is a multi-talented personality. She is an actor, producer, host and entrepreneur. The star has recently joined forces with Hallmark Channel’s two-hour, daily lifestyle show ‘Home & Family’ as a family member, and before that she co-hosted the Emmy-winning talk show ‘The Real’ for six seasons. In 2018 the actress along with her co-hosts Loni Love, Adrienne Bailon and Jeannie Mai won the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Entertainment Talk Show Host for their show ‘The Real’.
 
Michael Xavier as George

Michael Xavier (Hallmark)

Born in 1985 in Ontario, Canada, Xavier is an actor who has achieved success in the world of television shows. He has starred on Space Channel's series ‘Bitten’. He played the lead in the film ‘Deadly Inferno’ and was part of the ensemble cast of the 2017 romantic comedy film ‘A Swingers Weekend’ and CBC/Netflix drama series 'Northern Rescue’. His other credits include guest appearances on ‘Taken’, ‘The Bold Type’, ‘Kim’s Convenience’, ‘Rookie Blue’ and ‘Covert Affairs'. 
 

Creator

The movie ‘Christmas Comes Twice’ comes from the banner of Carnival Road Productions Ltd. The film has Stephanie Germain, Harvey Kahn, Tamera Mowry-Housley, and Michael Shepard as executive producers on the film. Michael Scott is on the director’s chair and the script of the television movie is by Gregg Rossen & Brian Sawyer.
 

Trailer

MEAWW has not received the trailer yet for the movie. 

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