Rotten
I can't believe that even the most rabid chick-flick masochists wouldn't gag on it.
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
The Lake House
How do you hold on to someone you've never met?
2006 · 1h 39m · PG
Drama, Mystery, Romance
Directed by
Alejandro Agresti
Overview
A lonely doctor who once occupied an unusual lakeside home begins exchanging love letters with its former resident, a frustrated architect. They must try to unravel the mystery behind their extraordinary romance before it's too late.
Director and cast
- Alejandro Agresti Director
- Keanu Reeves as Alex Wyler
- Sandra Bullock as Kate Forster
- Christopher Plummer as Simon Wyler
- Ebon Moss-Bachrach as Henry Wyler
- Willeke van Ammelrooy as Kate's Mother
- Dylan Walsh as Morgan
- Shohreh Aghdashloo as Anna Klyczynski
- Lynn Collins as Mona
- Mike Bacarella as Mulhern
- Kevin M. Brennan Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
35%
Tomatometer
Fresh
I have always felt that both Ms. Bullock's patented expressions of anguish and Mr. Reeves' stoical minimalism have been somewhat underrated.
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer
Fresh
The Lake House demands a serious suspension of disbelief, but if you accept it as a romantic bit of nonsense, it has its pleasures.
Anna Smith, Time Out
Rotten
Bullock's decision to play Kate as a morose kill-joy is particularly inexplicable. She's getting letters from some hot architect through a hole in the time-space continuum, and yet her expression remains impassive, her voice flat, her outlook maudlin.
Bruce Newman, San Jose Mercury News
Rotten
I was hot to trot for the exit halfway through, but a dogged sense of duty kept me stuck in an endless present.
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal
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