The Lake House (2006)
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36% of critics liked it
(154 reviews) -
75% of users liked it
(401,024 ratings)
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. Forced to move elsewhere, she requests that any correspondence that arrives at the lake house be passed… More 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. Forced 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
- Directed By
- Alejandro Agresti
- Written By
- David Auburn
- Genres
- Drama, Romance
- In Theaters
- Jun 16, 2006 Wide
- On DVD
- Sep 26, 2006
- Studio
- Warner Bros. Pictures
Critic Reviews
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Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
I can't believe that even the most rabid chick-flick masochists wouldn't gag on it.
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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.
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Anna Smith, Time Out
The Lake House demands a serious suspension of disbelief, but if you accept it as a romantic bit of nonsense, it has its pleasures.
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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 remains impassive, her voice flat, her outlook maudlin.
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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.
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Cast
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Keanu Reeves
as Alex Wyler
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Sandra Bullock
as Kate Forster
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Dylan Walsh
as Morgan
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Shohreh Aghdashloo
as Anna
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Christopher Plummer
as Simon Wyler
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Ebon Moss-Bachrach
as Henry Wyler
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Willeke van Ammelrooy
as Kate's Mother
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Lynn Collins
as Mona
- Brandon DeShazer
- Diane Frances Fisher
- Cynthia Kaye McWilliams
- Lori Ann Gerdisch








