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Lake House, The
Warner Bros.
FILM:
MPAA RATING: PG for some language and a disturbing image
Starring
Keanu Reeves,
Sandra Bullock,
Dylan Walsh,
Shohreh Aghdashloo,
and
Christopher Plummer
Based on the original 2000 South Korean film "Il Mare," The Lake House is a love story that explores the intriguing concept of an intimate communication across time.
| GENRE(S): |
Drama
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Fantasy
|
Mystery
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Romance
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| WRITTEN BY: |
David Auburn
Eun-Jeong Kim (motion picture Siworae)
Ji-na Yeo (motion picture Siworae)
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Alejandro Agresti
|
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: September 26, 2006
Theatrical: June 16, 2006
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| RUNNING TIME: |
97 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
88
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
What I respond to in the movie is its fundamental romantic impulse.

75
Portland Oregonian
Shawn Levy
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.

75
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
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.

75
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Scott Tobias
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.

75
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold
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.

75
Charlotte Observer
Lawrence Toppman
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.

75
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
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.

70
The New York Times
Dana Stevens
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.

70
New York Magazine
David Edelstein
Deliriously stupid romantic time-travel drama.

70
Chicago Reader
J.R. Jones
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.

63
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
How deeply silly is The Lake House? As silly as a movie about two letter-writing lovers separated by a wrinkle in time can be. How much sweet, dumb fun is it? More than you might want to admit.

63
Premiere
Ethan Alter
Where the film falters is in Alejandro Agresti's overly deliberate direction, which threatens to drown the drama in amber sunsets and self-conscious camera framings. The film looks great, but it lacks spontaneity, an important element of the most memorable screen romances.

63
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
Screenwriter David Auburn's awkward dialogue spells out the film's themes with painful literal-mindedness.

63
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
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.

63
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
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.

60
Empire
Ian Freer
A compelling idea delicately handled and neatly played, especially by Bullock. It just lacks the emotional directness to turn the good into the great.

60
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
The Lake House is an example of the way bad movies can sometimes be more interesting than merely mediocre, workmanlike ones, and of the way they sometimes compel us even against our better judgment.

58
Baltimore Sun
Michael Sragow
If you haven't had enough of Tom Hanks-Meg Ryan weepies like "Sleepless in Seattle" (1993) and "You've Got Mail" (1998), The Lake House gives us Mopey in Chicago and You've Got Snail Mail.

50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Rick Groen
We also know the last time Keanu and Sandra shared the screen together. That was yesterday and Speed. This is today and Snail. I'm not betting on a tomorrow.

50
Variety
Robert Koehler
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
Sheri Linden
A slow-moving, never-igniting tale of calendar-crossed lovers that grows less convincing as it proceeds.

50
LA Weekly
Ella Taylor
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
Los Angeles Times
Carina Chocano
A chronological brain-teaser confounding enough to keep you busy trying to figure out whether those holes are in the story or in your logic. But ultimately the movie is more interested in the love part of the equation than in the whole crazy, madcap physics part.

50
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
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
Peter Rainer
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.

42
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
The only real magic in The Lake House is that Kate and Alex have never heard of e-mail.

40
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
The Lake House has the sensibility of something conceived by Stephen King after an overdose of chocolate-covered cherries and valentine cards. In other words, it's sugary sweet and based on a premise that's just -- no other word will do -- ridiculous.

40
Austin Chronicle
Toddy Burton
Don't try to figure out a time-travel movie, it will make your head hurt. And if the movie stars Keanu Reeves, all the more reason to just stop, slowly put common sense on the ground, and back away from your capacity for rational thought.

40
Village Voice
Mark Holcomb
Treading the same supernatural turf trampled by "Somewhere in Time" and "Frequency," director Alejandro Agresti's gooey, ostensibly spooky romance yarn The Lake House flounders less on its thudding familiarity than on its mood- killing dourness.

38
Miami Herald
Connie Ogle
The Lake House overflows with heart-stopping thrills, if by ''thrills'' you mean ''watching attractive people wait around for letters to be delivered by mystical forces.'' Which, come to think of it, makes this romantic melodrama sound a lot more interesting than it is.

38
USA Today
Claudia Puig
One of the more befuddling movies of recent years. The premise makes no sense, no matter how you turn it around in your head.

38
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
A glacially paced, extremely moist, terminally gloomy and cliché-laden romantic drama with a supernatural twist.

30
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
Nothing stands up to scrutiny -- least of all the lethargic acting and the clumsy script. I was hot to trot for the exit halfway through, but a dogged sense of duty kept me stuck in an endless present.
25
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
I can't believe that even the most rabid chick-flick masochists wouldn't gag on it.


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