Kristoffer Polaha Reveals Favorite Hallmark Movie He’s Starred In
By Movieguide® Contributor
THE SHIFT star Kristoffer Polaha joined THE JENNIFER HUDSON SHOW to talk about the secret to his 20-year marriage and shared highlights from his Hallmark career.
“The trick is just lots of love, lots of honesty, lots of coming home,” he said of keeping his marriage strong.
Polaha and his wife Julianne Morris married in 2003. The couple shares three sons: Kristoffer “Caleb,” Jude and Micah.
Hudson also mentioned that the actor is “the Hallmark, like, King. How many films have you done?”
“To date, I have made 18,” Polaha responded. “In about five years.”
His favorite? A BILTMORE CHRISTMAS, which premiered on Nov. 26.
“I think is my favorite one so far,” he explained. “It’s like trying to choose a favorite kid. I love the work and I love the characters.”
The movie follows Lucy Hardgrove (Bethany Joy Lenz), a screenwriter tasked to remake a classic holiday movie called HIS MERRY WIFE!
“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,” Hallmark summarizes.
“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,” the summary concludes.
Most recently, Polaha starred in THE SHIFT, a sci-fi thriller based on the Book of Job.
“Kevin Garner (Kristoffer Polaha) travels across worlds and dimensions to reunite with Molly (Elizabeth Tabish), the love of his life. A mysterious adversary known as The Benefactor (Neal McDonough) upends Kevin’s world as he tries to escape an alternate dystopian reality,” Angel Studios describes.
Movieguide® praised the movie’s strong biblical worldview. Part of the review reads:
THE SHIFT is one of the most moving, inventive, compelling, and powerful faith-based movies ever made. The writing, acting and directing are superb. THE SHIFT has a strong Christian, moral worldview. It contains strong allegorical, overt and beautiful references to God, Scripture, the Resurrection, and the Empty Tomb. The hero prays and rebuffs the Devil. However, THE SHIFT has some action violence where people are shot and alcohol use. So, MOVIEGUIDE® advises caution for pre-teenage children.
Movieguide® previously reported on Polaha’s desire to share his faith in the entertainment industry:
“[God] designed me to be an actor and to be a storyteller,” he added. “Sometimes that means acting in a film with a Christian message for Christians, and sometimes that means being a light in really dark places, almost like a missionary, where you’re gonna be this one character in a movie that’s otherwise kind of dark. But people are like, ‘Why is that character so joyful? Like, what was it about that character? And then what was it about the actor that played him? And what’s going on there? And how do you draw people?’”
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