The Lake House

The Lake House (2006)

  • 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

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PG,
Directed By
Written By
David Auburn
Genres
Drama, Romance
In Theaters
Jun 16, 2006 Wide
On DVD
Sep 26, 2006
Warner Bros. Pictures

Critic Reviews

  • Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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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Featured Audience Ratings

  • John M


    This was just a wonderful film that just another one of those films that makes me believe in true love again.

  • Alice S


    Hokey as hell but still enjoyable. I'm a sucker for time travel love stories...no matter how implausible or Keanu Reevesy. Paul McCartney and Nick Drake provide a moving soundtrack, and Tony and Pulitzer Award-winning David Auburn's script yields some nice romantic… More

  • Universal D


    Filled with modern background music the equivalent of 1800's string orchestras, this Hallmark card of a film speaks to yearning and longing, love just out of one's hands. Guys will shoot themselves in the head before a half hour is gone. The ladies will open up the Ben… More

  • ♥Robyn


    I had to watch this movie a couple of times to grasp it fully. It is exciting and romantic and yes strange too!!!

  • Dead A


    This was pretty unusual romantic movie but I liked it.

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