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List Price: $14.98 | | Label: Warner Home Video
Salesrank: 1999
Released: September 26, 2006 |
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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:
Romantic fantasy 
2009-10-10 - It's one of my favorite romantic fantasies. Reeves and Bullock are perfect of a romance that exists in two alternate time periods one in the past, the other in the present as they converge to a rapidly emerging future. Can't reveal the ending or it will spoil the story, but it leaves you with a wondering sense of the power of choices and coincidences in our lives.
---Wilma
PEOPLE PLZ READ! 
2009-08-19 - The Lake House is a FANTASY romantic movie! Keyword people: FANTASY. All the things in the movie where 2 people fall in love across time is impossible of coarse. But if you stop analysing the movie or have questions about it such as " that is not possible" you will not understand the movie. The main thing about this movie is that 2 people are lonely and have finally met their love of their life and want to be together!You already know that this movie is Fantasy so therefore, dont be asking questions, just see it and pretend that those fantasy things do not excist. In the end this movie is so lovable and is worth buying and seen it over and over again. Dont ask questions because they will never be answered! its fantasy! just watch the movie period! Dont be stupid spending time hating this movie cuz its impossible to understand or know it cant be for reals!!!!!!!! keyword: Fantasy!
Great plot, but...
2009-08-13 - I'll never understand why directors take a great plot, good acting, and all-round good movie and feel they need to stick in people living together who aren't married and camera shots of a woman's chest! Those two events if deleted from the movie would have had NO impact whatsoever. Good grief...is it simply that movie viewers today are too stupid to enjoy a movie for its quality alone? I don't think so.
Mailbox Madness 
2009-08-11 - The Lake House is a science fiction romance of two people separated by two years in time, but communicate with letters. The letters are left in a mailbox at the Lake House where they both reside at different times. The mailbox is the worm hole to both the past and future. The first letter is from Dr. Kate Forster (Sandra Bullock) to the new occupant Alex Wyler (Keanu Reeves) asking him to forward her mail if any is missed by the post office and the paw prints at the front door were there when she moved in. She loved the house as she felt relief from stress there. Alex also feels deeply about the house as his father (Christopher Plummer) designed and built it.
Alex noted a stray dog left paw prints, but after the note from Dr. Forster. He puts a letter in the mailbox asking how she could have known about this. That is how the communication connects even though they are separated in time by two years. Alex dates his letters 2004 and Kate dates hers 2006.
The movie whipsaws you between time and also confusion on how the movie finally ends. The threads of the premise do not make sense and this is obvious in the ending scenes.
If the viewer can take the leap of faith on time travel and changing destiny you will have a good time watching.
The Lake House
2009-07-17 - Nice movie, not too manys surprises but something that can be enjoyed for an afternoon, maybe on a rainy day.The characters make you feel their feelings which makes the movie.
