Synopsis
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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Cast
- Keanu ReevesAlex Wyler
- Sandra BullockKate Forster
- Christopher PlummerSimon Wyler
- Ebon Moss-BachrachHenry Wyler
- Willeke van AmmelrooyKate's Mother
- Dylan WalshMorgan
- Shohreh AghdashlooAnna Klyczynski
- Lynn CollinsMona
- Mike BacarellaMulhern
- Kevin M. BrennanWaiter
Recommendations
- 75
The A.V. Club
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. - 63
ReelViews
I am conflicted about this film. I like the fact that it takes chances. I appreciate that it's trying to do a supernatural love story without falling into the schmaltz of "Ghost." Yet I recognize that the screenplay is like Swiss cheese - riddled with hole. - 63
New York Daily News
The time-warp romantic fantasy The Lake House is a puzzle that is maddeningly obtuse, emotionally overstretched, and virtually absent a sense of interior logic. - 50
Variety
Never quite sure what it wants to be -- a magical-mysterious love story, a psychodrama, a sprawling family saga, or an uneasy combination of these. - 50
The Hollywood Reporter
A slow-moving, never-igniting tale of calendar-crossed lovers that grows less convincing as it proceeds. - 50
L.A. Weekly
By herself, Bullock isn't enough to hold up this enervating movie, which lumbers along ponderously until, at the end, it takes a giant leap into the suspension of disbelief that lost me altogether. - 50
Chicago Tribune
This is a project whose elements, from concept to script to casting, refuse to follow the usual formulas, which is good, yet they never quite cohere. - 50
Christian Science Monitor
There is a germ of a good idea in the notion that an imaginary suitor can be more powerful than a real one. But director Alejandro Agresti isn't the man to pull it off.
