The Lake House (Widescreen Edition)
by Alejandro Agresti
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Actor: Christopher Plummer, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Keanu Reeves, Sandra Bullock, Willeke van AmmelrooyDirector: Alejandro Agresti
Brand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1; Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 98 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-09-26
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Warner Home Video
DVD Reviews of The Lake House (Widescreen Edition)
DVD Review: It's Okay
Summary: 3 Stars
I watched this movie because it was filmed near my old house. I used to stop for breakfast at a spot that overlooks the "lake house". I was expecting it to be the stupidest movie ever, but it was actually sort of cute. Even despite it's clumsy plot, refusal to resolve conflicts created by the time travel element and painfully obvious plot twist, there were parts that were sweet and silly enough to make it palatable. Overall, I think if you go in with really low expectations you may be surprised.DVD Review: Long Awaited but worth it
Summary: 4 Stars
I had wanted to see this movie since first advertised. It was well worth the wait. These 2 stars are my favorite duo of today. They never fail to please.
The movie was different & refreshing. Much better than most of those out there today.
DVD Review: This truly shows how awful these two actors are, as well as how miserably pathetic this film truly is
Summary: 1 Stars
Wow, this was so bad, it brings my body into spastic impulses trying to relay to the kind reader what words I could use to describe how awful the acting is. NO REALLY, Reeves (as if we all don't know already) is by far, despite his varied roles, is one of the worst method actors on the screen today. He just boldly has horrible timing, and when you compare him with lets say people like, ohhhh I don't know, Pete Postelwaite, or Albert Finney, Mike York....where would Keanu fit in? He wouldn't. He is just ravishingly uninspiring with the conscience of let's say Hayden C. in Star Wars; trite, unmoving and pretentious. Bad enough we have to throw him another film with the equally disgracefully talented, almost doll faced looking with the plastic surgery, miss perfect Sandra B., what else would you expect?
The movie gets increasingly boring as it gets older. Not from jumpstreet is it mundane and obviously, predictable, but the further we produce ourselves into the one and half hours of back and forth love letter inneuendo, and realism of physical that comes from the ghostlike aspect of the mailbox, the more you realize that the movie is truly a sad attempt at trying to tug at our hearts and bring us to a place that few movies tend to bring us to. How utterly pathetic.
I mean you put me in some glass house, like that of 13 ghost or the like, and throw me in a town that God forgot about like somewhere in Maine or the Dakotas, and someone is putting mail in my box within seconds, the last thing I would say dialoug wise, would be, "Can this be for real?" and the response of "Why not?" Are you @#%#% kidding me? Picture yourself getting letters in minutes in your mailbox to someone that may or may not exist, save the point of it being, in the least the first kind of cycle communication from the past or future, and I can bet the farm house that I would be yelling and screaming and calling friends and going a bit out of my mind, rather than the words, "why not?"
How cheap. The movie is a complete waste of time. We were robbed with the trailer, which I saw when I went to see the ever brilliant 'Into the Wild,' and its very safe to say, dont bother renting it, dont bother downloading it, dont bother buying it, or borrowing it, or burning it, or even consider any of the later. It is in the realm of films that deserve to be buried, burnt and forgotten.
DVD Review: Definitely fluffy and sappy... but also a guilty pleasure
Summary: 4 Stars
While I do enjoy my chick flicks and romances, I tend to be rather picky about them. This was the type of movie I should have mocked, with star-crossed lovers spouting poetic descriptions without ever really telling all that much about themselves and the roll-your-eyes plot twists.
And yet... there is just something about that ugly glass house on the lake and two people dwelling in it two years apart. I'm sure all hopeless romantics will agree.
Reeves and Bullock have great chemistry, even despite their lack of touching in this movie. I still say that what keeps this movie going is the sheer concept. It's a neat idea, and I guess I appreciate them dwelling on the relationship rather than the mechanics. Indeed, there are a few loose ends and I think they made me like the movie all the more.
The film has a rather quiet, rainy day feel to it that adds to the sleepily romantic mood and I found the score quite lovely.
To put it simply, if you don't like chick flicks and sappy romances, you will hate this movie. If you're a hopeless romantic that loves the aforementioned, you'll probably enjoy this. I know I did.
DVD Review: The Lake House
Summary: 4 Stars
Unique story line. The movie held my attention. Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves were an excellant match for the their roles.
Description of The Lake House (Widescreen Edition)
A lonely doctor (Sandra Bullock) who once occupied an unusual lakeside home begins exchanging love letters with its newest resident a frustrated architect (Keanu Reeves). When they discover that they're actually living two years apart they must try to unravel the mystery behind their extraordinary romance before it's too late.Running Time: 98 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre:?DRAMA UPC:?012569736726 Manufacturer No:?73672Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock pair up again in what could be described as the anti-Speed: The Lake House, a sweet, relaxed-paced, whimsical romance. When Alex Wyler (Reeves, The Matrix) moves into an unusual glass house on stilts over a lake, he discovers a note from the previous tenant in the mailbox--but no one's lived in the house for years. He replies and soon discovers that he's corresponding with a doctor named Kate Forster (Bullock, Miss Congeniality) who's writing from two years in the future. Their correspondence turns romantic and their paths cross in unexpected ways, but when they try to truly connect, danger looms. Though the plot of The Lake House sounds potentially static, the movie is skillfully structured and, despite some truly awful dialogue, will exert an emotional pull on anyone willing to embrace the device of the time-travelling mailbox. What the movie really demonstrates, though, is the genuine rapport between Bullock and Reeves; Reeves, though handsome, has a wooden presence--but in his few scenes with Bullock, his stiffness transforms into a palpable yearning. On-screen chemistry is slippery and hard to define, but these two have it. --Bret Fetzer
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