Movie Description
The Lake House is a 2006 American romantic drama film directed by Alejandro Agresti, starring Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock (who had previously appeared together in the box office hit Speed). It was written by David Auburn. A remake of the South Korean motion picture Il Mare (2000), it centers on an architect living in 2004 and a doctor living in 2006 who meet via letters left in a mailbox at the lake house where they have lived at separate points in time. They carry on correspondence over two years, remaining separated by their original difference of two years.
Roger Ebert gave the film its most positive review and ranked it 3.5 stars out of 4, noting that "It succeeds despite being based on two paradoxes: time travel, and the ability of two people to have conversations that are, under the terms established by the film, impossible... What I respond to in the movie is its fundamental romantic impulse." Ebert praised Bullock and Reeves in their respective roles, calling both "enormously likeable". While pointing out the movie's logical inconsistencies, Ebert wrote, "Never mind, I tell you, never mind!"
