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List Price: $14.98 | | Label: Warner Home Video
Salesrank: 2897
Released: September 26, 2006 |
| Our Price: $6.74 |
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MPAA Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
A lonely doctor (Sandra Bullock) who once occupied an unusual lakeside home begins exchanging love letters with its newest resident, a frustrated architect (Keanu Reeves). When they discover that they're actually living two years apart, they must try to unravel the mystery behind their extraordinary romance before it's too late.
Description of The Lake House (Widescreen Edition):
Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock pair up again in what could be described as the anti-Speed: The Lake House, a sweet, relaxed-paced, whimsical romance. When Alex Wyler (Reeves, The Matrix) moves into an unusual glass house on stilts over a lake, he discovers a note from the previous tenant in the mailbox--but no one's lived in the house for years. He replies and soon discovers that he's corresponding with a doctor named Kate Forster (Bullock, Miss Congeniality) who's writing from two years in the future. Their correspondence turns romantic and their paths cross in unexpected ways, but when they try to truly connect, danger looms. Though the plot of The Lake House sounds potentially static, the movie is skillfully structured and, despite some truly awful dialogue, will exert an emotional pull on anyone willing to embrace the device of the time-travelling mailbox. What the movie really demonstrates, though, is the genuine rapport between Bullock and Reeves; Reeves, though handsome, has a wooden presence--but in his few scenes with Bullock, his stiffness transforms into a palpable yearning. On-screen chemistry is slippery and hard to define, but these two have it. --Bret Fetzer
The Lake House (Widescreen Edition) Reviews:
Awesome! 
2008-12-02 - I love this movie and I haven't been able to stop watching it. I also bought the soundtrack. The music is superb. I wish that I could have a romance like that. The movie is so romantic and Bullock and Reeves are a great pair. Even though it is a fantasy, when you get into it, it seems so real. A must see over and over again.
Really bad, no, I mean, really ... 
2008-12-01 - I could not get into this at all. Makes no sense for the first half hour until you figure out the gimmick. Then, you stop caring. Skip it.
The Lake House 
2008-11-23 - When I saw this movie I wanted it in my collection. It's a sweet romantic movie that I can watch more than once and enjoy it every time.
Film I ordered
2008-11-01 - I cannot review this film as this part of a two DVD order has yet to be shipped by this vendor.
It's Okay 
2008-10-16 - I watched this movie because it was filmed near my old house. I used to stop for breakfast at a spot that overlooks the "lake house". I was expecting it to be the stupidest movie ever, but it was actually sort of cute. Even despite it's clumsy plot, refusal to resolve conflicts created by the time travel element and painfully obvious plot twist, there were parts that were sweet and silly enough to make it palatable. Overall, I think if you go in with really low expectations you may be surprised.
