Julie dumps Brian Connor (Rob Estes) after he missed their own engagement party for work in a large San Francisco tech company. He leaves to organize a newly acquired web hosting company in Maine. He gets convinced to buy a fixer-upper old mansion. As he does some repairs, strange things start happening and he encounters a ghostly Nora. In 1960, Nora is caught between kindly handyman Frank Clemmons and her loveless marriage to Thomas Hargrave.
There is a problem with his character construction. We're told that he's a big man in the company which makes two billion dollars. He's fixing a twenty million dollar acquisition as a side trip. Yet, he's doing his own home repairs. I don't buy that. He needs to insert a few lines talking about returning to his handyman roots and he needs to be a less important businessman. He could say that he had fixed up a small place as a summer job. This time-traveling premise does have some interesting potential. It is annoying to keep doing the tired trope of not saying everything right away. Brian should not hold back especially Nora and even Julie. Instead of Sarah, the movie should end with someone like Alana who is revealed to be the granddaughter. This is a bit limp as a romance but intriguing enough as a sci-fi.
There is a problem with his character construction. We're told that he's a big man in the company which makes two billion dollars. He's fixing a twenty million dollar acquisition as a side trip. Yet, he's doing his own home repairs. I don't buy that. He needs to insert a few lines talking about returning to his handyman roots and he needs to be a less important businessman. He could say that he had fixed up a small place as a summer job. This time-traveling premise does have some interesting potential. It is annoying to keep doing the tired trope of not saying everything right away. Brian should not hold back especially Nora and even Julie. Instead of Sarah, the movie should end with someone like Alana who is revealed to be the granddaughter. This is a bit limp as a romance but intriguing enough as a sci-fi.