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I think this movie looks pretty good, yet strange at the same time. Here's a summary of the movie.
The Lake House
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]In the Korean film Siworae, a man renting a seaside home finds himself exchanging letters with a woman living in the same rental ... two years apart. He's in 1997. She's in 1999. It seems the mailbox is a time portal of some kind, so she's able to tell him about things before they happen. And he can "fix" things for her before they become a problem. In the process, they develop a romantic attraction and attempt to meet up in the future. Clever idea. And Hollywood, always willing to recycle a clever idea, does so once again by reuniting Speed co-stars Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock in The Lake House.
In this Americanized version of the tale, relationally frustrated Chicago physician Kate Forester vacates a beautiful lake house in 2006. She leaves a note telling the next tenant where to forward her mail, mentioning as an aside that the unsightly trail of paw prints leading to the front door was there when she moved in. But before any new tenants arrive, an old one visits the mailbox and plucks her letter out. Architect Alex Wyler, whose estranged father built the lake house decades earlier, has just purchased the rundown home of his youth and is in the process of sprucing it up ... in 2004. Alex is perplexed by Kate's note. No one has ever rented the place. He looks for the paw prints, but finds none. That's because they haven't been left yet. Like the Korean film that inspired it, The Lake House proceeds to eavesdrop on the correspondence between these two detached soulsconnected over time by a mystical mailboxand develops a rooting interest in their attempt to bridge the gap.
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The Lake House
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]In the Korean film Siworae, a man renting a seaside home finds himself exchanging letters with a woman living in the same rental ... two years apart. He's in 1997. She's in 1999. It seems the mailbox is a time portal of some kind, so she's able to tell him about things before they happen. And he can "fix" things for her before they become a problem. In the process, they develop a romantic attraction and attempt to meet up in the future. Clever idea. And Hollywood, always willing to recycle a clever idea, does so once again by reuniting Speed co-stars Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock in The Lake House.
In this Americanized version of the tale, relationally frustrated Chicago physician Kate Forester vacates a beautiful lake house in 2006. She leaves a note telling the next tenant where to forward her mail, mentioning as an aside that the unsightly trail of paw prints leading to the front door was there when she moved in. But before any new tenants arrive, an old one visits the mailbox and plucks her letter out. Architect Alex Wyler, whose estranged father built the lake house decades earlier, has just purchased the rundown home of his youth and is in the process of sprucing it up ... in 2004. Alex is perplexed by Kate's note. No one has ever rented the place. He looks for the paw prints, but finds none. That's because they haven't been left yet. Like the Korean film that inspired it, The Lake House proceeds to eavesdrop on the correspondence between these two detached soulsconnected over time by a mystical mailboxand develops a rooting interest in their attempt to bridge the gap.
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