The Lake House (2006)

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Won 2 awards & 1 nomination
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About the movie

Year

2006

Runtime

1 h 39 min

Genres

Drama, Fantasy, Romance

Countries

United States, Australia

Director

Alejandro Agresti

Writers

David Auburn, Eun-Jeong Kim, Ji-na Yeo

Plotline

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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Starring

Keanu Reeves

Sandra Bullock

Christopher Plummer

Shohreh Aghdashloo

Lynn Collins

Main cast

Keanu Reeves Alex Wyler

Sandra Bullock Kate Forster

Christopher Plummer Simon Wyler

Ebon Moss-Bachrach Henry Wyler

Willeke van Ammelrooy Kate's Mother

Dylan Walsh Morgan

Shohreh Aghdashloo Anna

Lynn Collins Mona

Mike Bacarella Mulhern

Kevin Brennan Waiter

Frank Caeti Cove Patron

Aliyah Carr Girl Patient

Jennifer Clark Nurse Practitioner

Jacob D. Dumelle Patient on Gurney

Scott Elias Doug

Tiffini Funches Nurse

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External critics' reviews

What I respond to in the movie is its fundamental romantic impulse. more

An enjoyably sudsy romance starring a moody Keanu Reeves, a broody Sandra Bullock, and the titular structure - a jewel box of glass and steel perched on stilts over Lake Michigan. more

The measure of this kind of movie is its seductiveness, not its logic, nor the ways in which it exploits the supernatural angle, and The Lake House is seductive. more

Bullock and Reeves have an unusual kind of charisma, one that works best when they're apart. Though the filmmakers sometimes put them in the same frame for visual ease, they mostly occupy different times. more

It's hard to overestimate what a job of work was accomplished here to keep this from being a catastrophe. But The Lake House, despite its dubious foundation, proves surprisingly sturdy. more

Bullock has abandoned all her usual cutesy mannerisms, and Reeves is as low-key and convincing as he's been in a role. Whatever else the film is, it's a competent and enjoyable star vehicle. more

Elegantly scripted by Pulitzer Prize-winner David Auburn, The Lake House never establishes any clear rules about how and when these strands of time can intertwine, but it succeeds at forging a bond between people who only know each other on the page. more

Deliriously stupid romantic time-travel drama. more

The movie is, above all, a showcase for its stars, who seem gratifyingly comfortable in their own skin and delighted to be in each other's company again, in another deeply silly, effortlessly entertaining movie. more

Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves are both such guarded celebrities that I have a hard time imagining them as lovers, a problem this Chicago-based romantic fantasy surmounted by isolating them from each other almost entirely. more

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