The Lake House

2006 "How do you hold on to someone you've never met?"
6.8| 1h39m| PG| en| More Info
Released: 16 June 2006 Released
Producted By: Vertigo Entertainment
Country: United States of America
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A lonely doctor who once occupied an unusual lakeside home begins exchanging love letters with its former resident, a frustrated architect. They must try to unravel the mystery behind their extraordinary romance before it's too late.

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Irishchatter I just didn't feel the storyline was clicking into the romantic side of things, its like its going back to the past and then the future at the same time. Yeah its about two people who are receiving letters from one another, yet they have never met. I think thats just pure bs and really lazy coming right out of Hollywood's minds.Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock are great actors but I definitely think this movie wasn't for them. In many scenes, they looked as if they were confused and not having an idea whats going on. I just think the whole movie was a bad idea to show on screens, its not really that well done to be honest....
nottoman I'm reviewing this because even though I saw this film years ago, the emotion and theme has still stayed with me, and revives itself every time I see the title. I won't give a description, I'll tell you the feeling. We all seem to want what we can't have. For a love to grow, to a point of obvious discover, only to find that you can't reach out and touch it only intensifies the wanting. The "time travel" in this picture is well done, in my opinion. Not that it follows every rule, but that it makes the movie. Reeves and Bullock are great together, and I thoroughly enjoyed this movie. The lead up to the end in wonderful and spoke to my heart the strength of the love that slowly grew throughout this movie between two, not total, strangers. Enjoy it with someone you love, or want to.
paladier Well well well...a movie which, before seeing it, seemed awesome. After seeing it, it seems awesome but it lacks logic. Absolutely lacks logic. The plot is great, the characters are vivid and you are almost living their drama...but there are so many plot holes that you can get a nightmarish headache. If just someone had put a little more effort in writing the script, this movie would have turned a whole lot better. I mean, everybody knows that this can't really happen - but even if it can't, make it look like it could. Make the movie seem realistic. Make it look like you aren't only trying to tell a ''love story'' but also a story worth making you think. All in all, the only good reason to watch this is because your girlfriend/wife tells you to. Otherwise, go watch something better which doesn't cause you a headache because of the lack of logic.
info-220-630070 This is plain ans simple a Drama / Romance movie. Guys usually dislike this king of movies and so do I, but "The Lake House" offers a plot that differs from those in its category. I will review it without spoiling any details besides those in the synopsis. The first time I saw this movie was years ago, when it was released on DVD, and casually I watched it again last night and realized what a genius and complex plot it holds while supporting a straight forward goal for the heroes in the movie: surpass the obstacles between them, completely our of their control, in order to meet. What great obstacle can keep this two apart you say? No small deed... a time gap. Through a series of well elaborated twists and interventions from forces neither characters, and sometimes not even the audience can understand, the heroes and briefly united and eternally separated and the same time.The time lapses, jumps, plot twists and mindsets are a bit hard to follow, which may have gotten this movie a bad rep for some time, but in reality, it is what separates if from its genre. You suddenly feel like you are watching Sci-fi like "Interstellar" or "Star Trek"... and that is why some guys (including my own) has found this title to be quite interesting.If you will be watching the movie for the first time, it will be a bit hard to keep up, but a simple fact will probably help you: remember Kate and Alex are being separated by a time gap, but more than that, their mind sets at the time where the other is. The time machine here? The mailbox... that is their connection.I wish I could explain more but I would give out spoilers. Basically, great pick, this is at its core a chick flick, but guys will be hooked with the loops and enigma surrounding the phenomena the romance.