- It follows Lucy as she's hired to write the script for a remake of a holiday movie. She joins a tour of the grounds and when she knocks an hourglass over, she finds herself transported back in time to 1946.
- Lucy Hargrove (Bethany Joy Lenz) is a screenwriter who lands the job of a lifetime when she's hired to pen the script for a remake of the beloved holiday movie, "His Merry Wife!". First filmed in 1947 at beautiful, historic Biltmore House, it has long been considered a Christmas classic. When the head of the studio isn't satisfied with the ending Lucy wrote because it deviates from the original's feel-good conclusion, he sends Lucy to Biltmore Estate for research and inspiration. While there, she unwittingly discovers the ability to travel to the 1947 set of "His Merry Wife!" through the help of an hourglass. After shaking off the initial shock of this turn of events, Lucy embraces this as her chance to uncover the truth about the movie's original ending. While on set, she and Jack Huston (Kristoffer Polaha), one of the film's stars, spend time together and become close. But her sudden appearance has set off a chain of events that put the production in jeopardy. Before she can return to the present, Lucy must make things right or threaten to alter the future forever.
- With her career having been stalled for several years, screenwriter Lucy Hargrove has to make good on her latest plum assignment, to write the screenplay for the planned remake of the 1948 holiday classic "His Merry Wife!", its surprise success which revived the career of leading lady Ava Hayward, and made a star out of then relative unknown Jack Huston, who did not get a chance to enjoy that stardom having died unexpectedly a year after filming, on Christmas Eve, 1948. Lucy decides to change the ending from the original's happy one to an uncertain one, she arguing it being more modern and realistic, while her otherwise supportive sister Becca believing it to be single Lucy's cynical view of love. This change also does not sit well with studio head Michael Balaban, the grandson of the studio founder Harold Balaban, who greenlit the original production while all the other major studios passed on it. Hopefully to provide some inspiration as to his view, Balaban, for the holidays, sends Lucy to the original movie's iconic setting, the Biltmore Estate, the inn at which which is done up for the holidays largely to capitalize on the movie's success. Lucy discovers that many fans do spend the holidays there, this year including super-fan Margaret Majors. But in being given special access by the manager Winston to some of the estate's otherwise restricted areas associated to the movie, Lucy discovers, much to her incredulity, that she has the ability to travel back in time to the actual filming in December, 1947, it all tied to one of the movie's key props, an hourglass, each of her visits to 1947 only until the sand runs outs. While her first visits to 1947 were before she knew how to control it, her latest visit is of her own doing in discovering some information about the original movie which could influence her screenplay. In the process, she sees some of the discord with the production, and gets to know the real people behind the movie, including writer/director William West, the leading man Claude Lancaster, and both Hayward and especially Huston with who she makes a connection. But Lucy hits an uncertain future when she could alter the course of the players and thus the outcome of the original movie, and something happens which threatens her ability to make it back to the present.—Huggo
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