Genre: Fantasy, Romance, Drama
Tagline: How do you hold on to someone you've never met?
Plot: Feeling that it’s time for a change in her life, Dr. Kate Forster (SANDRA BULLOCK) leaves the suburban Illinois locale where she completed her residency and takes a job at a busy Chicago hospital. One thing she is reluctant to leave behind is the uniquely beautiful house she’s been renting – a spacious and artfully designed refuge with large windows that overlook a placid lake. It’s a place in which she felt her true self. It is a winter morning in 2006.On her way to the city, Kate leaves a note in the mailbox for house’s next tenant, asking him to forward her mail and noting that the inexplicable painted paw prints he might notice by the front door were there when she moved in. But when the next tenant arrives, he sees a much different picture. Alex Wyler (KEANU REEVES), a talented but frustrated architect working at a nearby construction site, finds the lake house badly neglected: dusty, dirty and overgrown with weeds. And no sign of paw prints anywhere. The house has special meaning for Alex. In a happier time it was built by his estranged father (CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER), a renowned architect who allowed his professional acclaim to grow at the expense of his family life. Alex feels a sense of peace here now and commits to restoring the property to its original beauty. He
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 ...also has the odd distinction of raising metaphysical questions without boasting an overly intelligent storyline. Despite the conventional ending, which has a tacky, tacked-on feel, the movie is designed for those who are more adventurous when it comesto romance. It will be interesting to see if it finds an audience.  --James Berardinelli (ReelViews)
Leave your brain at the door and prepare to have your suspension of disbelief put to the ultimate test if you want to get through this movie without fuming at the obvious plotholes in this unwieldy premise. Then again, if you're an unrepentant romantic, you're probably used to forgiving the many incongruities of Hollywood romances, and will let reality and logic slide in hope that things will work out between the two characters. 4/10--Edward Douglas (ComingSoon.net)
It's that sort of thing that ultimately sinks the film and that lovely suspension of disbelief. A few anomalies could be forgiven, but such obtuseness in putatively sharp cookies, no way. Particularly when the climax wobbles off into the corner of the time/space continuum known as "what the heck was that?". Romantics, an optimistic lot by their very nature, at least the ones who prefer their stories to proceed at a leisurely pace and have no worries about coherence, might have a good time..  --Andrea Chase (Killer Movie Reviews)
A time-lapse love story that never jells.--Sheri Linden (Hollywod Reporter)
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Alejandro Agresti
Noche con Sabrina Love, Una, Viento se llevó lo qué, El, Mundo menos peor, Un |
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Prince
Purple Rain, Under the Cherry Moon, Graffiti Bridge |
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Chocolat, The Cider House Rules, The Manchurian Candidate | |
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| So leisurely and lovely is “Lake House,” it feels a shame it has to end; that there must be an earthbound conclusion to it all, tied up in a neat bow. Floating in the warm waters of forbidden love, near misses, and heartache for 95 gentle minutes, it must come to a close, and mercifully Agresti sustains his film’s tone with a climax that won’t blow minds, but, at the same time, doesn’t knock down this cinematic house of cards. A- --Brian Orndorf (FilmJerk.com)
...Something’s terribly wrong when the most engaging character in a Sandra Bullock film is a female dog named Jack. A disappointing reunion of Bullock and Reeves, The Lake House might work only for those diehard romantic movie fans who are able to forgive the film’s many flaws and concentrate on just the love story. C---Rebecca Murray (About.com)
Floating in the warm waters of forbidden love, near misses, and heartache for 95 gentle minutes, it must come to a close, and mercifully Agresti sustains his film’s tone with a climax that won’t blow minds, but, at the same time, doesn’t knock down this cinematic house of cards.  --Brian Orndorf (eFilmCritic.com)
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