Through correspondence, Dr, Kate Forster and Alex Wyler, an architect, who live in different world, fall in love with each others, as she is the former tenant of his lake house, the thing that makes them struggle against saving their love and finding out a way to meet each others, and finally, they mange to overcome all that struggles.
Like all good romantic movies there's a beautiful house on the lake and a cuddly dog. Good dialogue, great direction, sweet cinematography and good acting -- even by Keanu.
Endless implausibility, cheesy dialogue, and the inert personalities of its charisma-zapped leads conspire to doom this chilly magical mailbox love sham. Nice soundtrack, though.
Those wishing to suppress real-life traumas may submit to the deliriously stupid romantic time-travel drama The Lake House -- I did and had a jolly time.
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.
Wall Street Journal
June 19, 2006
I was hot to trot for the exit halfway through, but a dogged sense of duty kept me stuck in an endless present.
Time-travel films often bring up a lot of questions, and they often fall apart with thoughtful scrutiny, but that's part of the fun. However, one shouldn't be wondering that the only benefit these two have with this magical mailbox connection is that they
