Official Movie Website Theatrical Release 06/16/06 Home Video 09/26/06 MPAA Rating Rated PG for some language and a disturbing image Running Time 1 hour 48 minutes Genre Drama, Romance Director Alejandro Agresti Writer David Auburn Cast Sandra Bullock, Keanu Reeves, Dylan Walsh, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Christopher Plummer Studio Warner Brothers |
THE LAKE HOUSE
SYNOPSIS
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
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 disregards Kate's note
until, days later, while painting the weather-beaten jetty he sees a stray dog run across the fresh paint
and then towards the entrance of the house, leaving paw prints exactly where she said they'd be.
Baffled, Alex writes back, saying that the house had no occupant before him and wondering how she
could have known about the dog; while Kate, who just left it a week ago, imagines he is playing some
kind of joke on her and fires back a reply.
Just for argument's sake, what day is it there?
April 14, 2004.
No, she says. It's April 14, 2006.
The same day, two years apart.
Can this be happening?
As Kate and Alex continue to correspond through the lake house's mailbox they confirm that they are,
incredibly, impossibly, living two years apart, and each at a time in their lives when they are struggling
with past disappointments and trying to make a new start. Sharing this unusual bond, they reveal more
of themselves to one another with each passing week - their secrets, their doubts and dreams, until
they find themselves falling in love.
Determined to bridge the distance between them at last and unravel the mystery behind their
extraordinary connection, they tempt fate by arranging to meet. But, by trying to join their two separate
worlds, they could risk losing each other forever.
--© Warner Bros.
until, days later, while painting the weather-beaten jetty he sees a stray dog run across the fresh paint
and then towards the entrance of the house, leaving paw prints exactly where she said they'd be.
Baffled, Alex writes back, saying that the house had no occupant before him and wondering how she
could have known about the dog; while Kate, who just left it a week ago, imagines he is playing some
kind of joke on her and fires back a reply.
Just for argument's sake, what day is it there?
April 14, 2004.
No, she says. It's April 14, 2006.
The same day, two years apart.
Can this be happening?
As Kate and Alex continue to correspond through the lake house's mailbox they confirm that they are,
incredibly, impossibly, living two years apart, and each at a time in their lives when they are struggling
with past disappointments and trying to make a new start. Sharing this unusual bond, they reveal more
of themselves to one another with each passing week - their secrets, their doubts and dreams, until
they find themselves falling in love.
Determined to bridge the distance between them at last and unravel the mystery behind their
extraordinary connection, they tempt fate by arranging to meet. But, by trying to join their two separate
worlds, they could risk losing each other forever.
--© Warner Bros.
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