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Keanu Reeves, Sandra Bullock, Dylan Walsh, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Christopher Plummer ... see more see more... , Ebon Moss-Bachrach , Willeke van Ammelrooy , Lynn Collins , Brandon DeShazer , Diane Frances Fisher , Cynthia Kaye McWilliams , Lori Ann Gerdisch

Two people develop an unusual relationship that bends the boundaries of time and place in this romantic fantasy. Kate Forster (Sandra Bullock) is a doctor who lives in a beautiful home by a lake. Forc... read more read more...ed to move elsewhere, she requests that any correspondence that arrives at the lake house be passed on to her new address. To her surprise, she soon receives a romantic note from Alex Burnham (Keanu Reeves), an architect who lives in the cottage she once called home. However, a look at the postmark on the letter reveals that he lived at the home two years before she did, and that somehow they've come in contact with one another through a space in time. A remake of Lee Hyun-seung's acclaimed Korean romance Il Mare (aka Siworae), The Lake House was the first American production from Argentinean filmmaker Alejandro Agresti; the supporting cast includes Christopher Plummer, Dylan Walsh, and Lynn Collins. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

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PG, 1 hr. 38 min.

Directed by: Alejandro Agresti

Release Date: June 16, 2006

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DVD Release Date: September 26, 2006

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  • jmanard52
    May 9, 2008
    jmanard52
    This was just a wonderful film that just another one of those films that makes me believe in true love again.
  • BEACHBUNNI
    April 9, 2011
    BEACHBUNNI
    I had to watch this movie a couple of times to grasp it fully. It is exciting and romantic and yes strange too!!!
  • 3niR
    January 8, 2011
    3niR
    This was pretty unusual romantic movie but I liked it.
  • xXGiNoBiLiPRXx
    September 1, 2010
    xXGiNoBiLiPRXx
    Great Film, I could watch it over and over again! Great Love Story!!!

    Kate Forster is moving out from her lake house, built all of it with glass. She is a doctor and has just begin to work in a hospital in Chicago, moving to a new flat in the center of the city. Alex Wyler is ... read morethe new owner of the lake house, a young architect who's working in the construction of a new complex of houses at the city skirts. Alex and Kate are maintaining a correspondence, talking about the house matters, sending each other letters, which are put in the lake house's letter box. But a strange thing is happening, because both of them find out that the letter box is working as a kind of time communication channel, between the year 2004, where Alex's living, and 2006, the year that Kate's actually living. After sending each other many letters talking about their lives, and Kate talking to Alex about how life will be in two years, it seems like they're falling in love each other. But maybe they will never meet each other, because of the time distance. Nevertheless, Kate comes up with a memory from 2004, when she forgot a book in a train station, Jane Austen's "Persuasion", and she'll ask Alex to go to that place in that precise moment, when she lost the book. Maybe the future of Kate is about to change, when Alex decides to meet Kate's other self in the past, despite the fact that she has a boyfriend. They will learn that playing with time could be a little bit dangerous for both of them, but Alex will take everything into his hands to finally meet Kate in the future.
  • ythelastman89
    January 10, 2010
    ythelastman89
    It's an incredibly ridiculous and corny concept, but somehow it's not Keanu Reeves' or Sandra Bullock's worst movie. It looks really good, so that automatically makes it easier to watch. There's something else too, maybe the time travel aspect, that makes it worth watching.
  • ScoopOnline
    December 29, 2009
    ScoopOnline
    Very adorable Movie. I was tiny bit confused with the Letterbox thing but quickly I was okay when it was revealed that the letters are from the past and she was in the future.
  • SirPant
    September 30, 2009
    SirPant
    Reminiscent of Frequency, it?s a made for girls version. Keanu Reeves acting is laughable and at times it?s a little slow but I watched with my bird and we enjoyed it together in a romantic sort of way. Damn, I'm going soft!
  • FiLmCrAzY
    April 24, 2009
    FiLmCrAzY
    I LOVE THIS MOVIE
    this is probably my favourite romance drama movie the storyline i thought would be complicated that it wouldnt be pulled of reli well and would just leave you confused but its brilliantly done and acted, the chemistry between bullock and reeves is fantastic and... read more really is a heart warming film and i cryed at the end the ending is just as good as the movie as sometimes endings on movies can be a let down but this movie was brilliant through and through!! worth a watch
  • garyX
    January 13, 2009
    garyX
    A couple enter into an unlikely romance as they both inhabit the same house; only two years apart. This is one of those wish fulfillment fantasies that's easy to pick holes in but everyone seems to have a soft spot for; think a romantic version of Frequency. The whole magic mailb... read moreox concept is obviously ridiculous, but so is the idea of building a time machine out of a DeLorean. Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock are also hardly the greatest acting talents in the world, but this is the kind of romantic fluff that relies far more on the charm and likability of its stars, rather than their ability. Basically if you like THEM, then you'll like THIS. The twist is also pretty obvious, and you know it's all going to have a happy ending because it's just that type of film, but it does have some charm and is one of the few Hollywood feelgood films that didn't result in me being feelsick instead.
  • RossCollinsUK
    January 12, 2009
    RossCollinsUK
    An unapologetically cheesy love story that I won't apologise for enjoying, though perhaps my past-self would have enjoyed it more. It follows a simple sci-fi premise of two people striking up a correspondence despite being separated by time, 2 years, if not space, the Lake House.... read more Thankfully the love story remains the focus of the movie throughout without any other distracting gimmicks other than the central premise, which drives the story really well.

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Peter Travers
November 24, 2006
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

I can't believe that even the most rabid chick-flick masochists wouldn't gag on it.

Andrew Sarris
June 28, 2006
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer

I have always felt that both Ms. Bullock's patented expressions of anguish and Mr. Reeves' stoical minimalism have been somewhat underrated. Full Review

Bruce Newman
June 24, 2006
Bruce Newman, San Jose Mercury News

Bullock's decision to play Kate as a morose kill-joy is particularly inexplicable. She's getting letters from some hot architect through a hole in the time-space continuum, and yet her expression rema...

Joe Morgenstern
June 19, 2006
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal

I was hot to trot for the exit halfway through, but a dogged sense of duty kept me stuck in an endless present. Full Review

David Edelstein
June 19, 2006
David Edelstein, New York Magazine

Those wishing to suppress real-life traumas may submit to the deliriously stupid romantic time-travel drama The Lake House -- I did and had a jolly time. Full Review

Stephanie Zacharek
June 16, 2006
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com

I couldn't spoil the plot if I wanted to, since I have no idea how it all ties together. Full Review

Susan Walker
June 16, 2006
Susan Walker, Toronto Star

There's only one answer to this epistolary screen romance: Return to Sender. Full Review

Mick LaSalle
June 16, 2006
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle

It's a delicate, hyper-romantic atmosphere, pensive and steeped in longing, that covers over the story's inconsistencies -- or at least offers enough distraction to make us not care. Full Review

Roger Moore
June 16, 2006
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel

It doesn't quite work, but it fails with warmth. Full Review

Lisa Rose
June 16, 2006
Lisa Rose, Newark Star-Ledger

A bit too moody and metaphysical for its own good. Full Review

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