Jun 19, 2006 welcome to part one of wfmes realism in hollywood featurette today well be discussing this weekends brand new film the lake house starring keanu reeves and americas sweetheart sandra bullock a film about a woman and a man who exist in different time periods he, in 2004 and her, in 2006 and how the two of them communicate through, yes you guessed it, a magical mailbox. A lonely doctor, who once occupied an unusual lakeside house, begins exchanging love letters with its former resident, a frustrated architect. This film reunites reeves and bullock for the first time in a film since they costarred in speed in 1994. The lake house is a 2006 american romantic drama film written by david auburn, directed by. This would then mean that she would never have gone to the lake house and so the ending would not have happened in the way it was portrayed. The lake house on dvd september 26, 2006 starring keanu reeves, christopher plummer, shohreh aghdashloo, willeke van ammelrooy. Kate moves out of her wisconsin lake house at the beginning of 2006 and leaves a note in the mailbox asking that her mail be forwarded to her new address in chicago. She meets keanu reeves because she bought the lake house. That same year, cassie and her parents shared a holiday with cassies. Every time somebody climbs to the attic in the lake house, you see a small, dark, enclosed chamber with some abandoned stuff. And this brings us back to the beginning of the movie as alex actually is the man she saw run over by a bus. Provided a date is specified, youll find it here, from jfks assassination to the adventures of. This is plausible, and launches our timelines for us. At the link above can be found a somewhat dark professional photo of the lake house.
Marley and me ive had dogs my whole life, and theyve become a big part of my family, like the dog in this movie. I need to watch this movie a few times i didnt get it. So, bullock leaves the lake house in 2006 and leaves a letter for the next tenant in the mail box, which turns out to be reeves in 2004. Commodore later sold palmer house to his brotherinlaw, james potter. The lake house is a romantic drama film remake of the korean motion picture il mare 2000. His son, alex, receives a copy of simons book in his mailbox, 2 years before the book is published. This article is about the 2006 american romantic drama movie by alejandro agresti. When searching for a similar movie to the lake house you might be looking for another movie starring keanu reeves or sandra bullock, or perhaps another romance and drama movie. Though generally im not a big fan of romantic movies,yet lakehouse has caught my attention due to its unique storyline all that time travel stuff while ive come to like this movie,the time travel concept shown in this film is a bit fuzzy,if alex wyler waits for kate for 2 years,and comes to meet her in 2008 while shes at the postbox near lakehouse,the original kate should be in 2010. Alex reeves is living in 2004, but kate bullock is in 2006, which is kind of a problem.
He has just moved into the house, and she has just moved out. Mar 01, 2007 she ran back to the house to leave the letter telling him not to try to find her. At the same time kate in 2008 coincidentally hears about alexs death on valentines day 2006 and makes the same deduction, so she hastes to the lake house and tries to stop him from meeting her and thus dieing. We determined that there is no dog in that history.
Alex abandons the lake house and gives the key to morgan, so kate can move in. It is evident that the lake house is not a fixed time theory story. Robert garrett 97 was a trustee of the university with a particular interest in its grounds and buildings. Stanleys family is cursed because of a promise made to an old gypsy woman a hundred and fifty years ago. The lake house 2006 movie mistakes, goofs and bloopers. The lake house is a 2006 american romantic drama film written by david auburn, directed by alejandro agresti, and stars keanu reeves and sandra bullock as alex wyler and kate forster, respectively. On valentines day, kate witnesses a man dying in a traffic accident at daley plaza. The history of everything, based on events as reported by movies. Here the movie makes a little leap in favour of the story. They must try to unravel the mystery behind their extraordinary romance before its too late. Adapted from the 1962 italian film il mare, the concept. When alex was 8 years old, he and his father and mother all lived together in the lake house. Lake house paintings if you are truly looking to get away from all the stress in your life, a lake house is a perfect place to do so.
Now first of all, as many other time travel movies, this film also suffers from a. The story structure database is an archive of books and movies, recording all their major plot points. The lake house 2006 frequently asked questions imdb. The story centers on an architect living in 2004 and a doctor. Colin farrell plays a turnofthecentury irish thief who encounters a terminally ill heiress while. Can someone give a detail explanation of the lake house. Kate in 2008 receives alexs first letter from 2006. Except for the lake house, keanu reeves released one movie, and sandra bullock released two movies in 2006.
When alex shows his brother the lake house in 2004, he mentions that the house has no way to reach the water and that there should be a staircase so that you could go swimming. The timeline gets loopy since the future kids dad also travels back in time to save that kids mom, sarah connor linda hamilton. Stratford place in lakeview, less than a block from lake michigan, and according to advocacy group preservation chicago. Time travel movies you should watch again readers digest. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. How they built a glass house for the lake house movie. The plot of the lake house is a little too convoluted, and the film fails to pull off the sweeping romance it aims for. Various size glass enclosures can be seen on the roof of the lake house. Wouldnt two years for him be two years for her as well. The lake house 2006 rotten tomatoes movie trailers. Those movies, though, are temporal disasters, stories that do not work coherently under any theory of time. However, as soon as you see the lake house from the outside, it is a singlelevel construction entirely made of glass, with no inside staircase or ladder, and three smaller glasshouses on the roof.
I go up to that lake all the time because my grandma has a lake house there, ive had some really great. Alexs brother henry was born after the wyler family moved into the lake house. The lake house is a 2006 american romantic drama film directed by alejandro agresti and starring keanu reeves and sandra bullock who had previously appeared together in the academy award winning film speed and christopher plummer. The fourth installment of the series focuses on the lake house. She ran back to the house to leave the letter telling him not to try to find her. Time travel and sodomite programming in film and tv part. Alex and kate figure out that the lake house mailbox is a portal between their times, and they begin a correspondence. Lenny feder, eric lamonsoff, kurt mckenzie, marcus higgins, and rob hilliard are born. Morgan and alex talk about renting the lake house at some point so it seems as if alex was there in 2004 and then kate from 20052006. They communicate by letter between those two years which leads reeves to check out bullock as she was in 2004,two years before she writes the letters. The lake house follows keanu reeves an architect in 2004 and sandra bullock a doctor in 2006 as they go about their lives and relax at the lake house. Neither one of these problems bothered me in the slightest. Alex wylers father built the lake house, which kate rented for a short period. The lake house tells the story of a romance that spans years but involves only a few kisses.
Not only has she worked out the perfect twist for her. He knew because in one of her letters later on she let it slip that the sight of that dead guy did something to her. Freund died demolished in april, andrew aj freunds parents reported him missing, saying they had last seen him while putting him to bed. Subsequently, the potter family sold the house to the garretts of baltimore. Jun 16, 2006 the lake house, a wondrously illogical timetravel romance directed by alejandro agresti, is notable mainly for reuniting keanu reeves and sandra bullock, who together survived a harrowing bus. A timeline created with timetoasts interactive timeline maker. Movies in the list below weve matched up popular movies which include keywords such as future, chicago and romantic drama. I remember when it first came out and i completely understood it and i was only in 4th grade. Hes been sentenced to the camp for eighteen months for a crime he didnt commit. A smalltown christmas romance novel kindle edition by squires, megan. A missing child june 1933, and the edevane familys country house, loeanneth, is polished and gleaming, ready for the muchanticipated midsummer eve party.
Welcome to part one of wfmes realism in hollywood featurette today well be discussing this weekends brand new film the lake house starring keanu reeves and americas sweetheart sandra bullock a film about a woman and a man who exist in different time periods he, in 2004 and her, in 2006 and how the two of them communicate through, yes you guessed it, a magical. Apr 01, 2014 with its softfocus, cheesyweddingphoto shot of the two leads, even the dvd cover of timetravel romance the lake house is enough to make most redblooded males a little queasy. Henry is a time travelercursed with a rare genetic anomaly that causes him to live his life on a shifting timeline, skipping back and forth through the years with no control. I have watched it probably 7 times, and i dont really get tired of. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading a lake house holiday.
A simple story of timecrossed lovers ok, not so simple, the lake house ticks all the usual chick flick boxes the presence of sandra bullock, a handsome but still everymanish male lead in. The lake house 2006 a lonely doctor sandra bullock, who once lived in a beautiful lakeside home, falls in love via letters with its latest resident, a frustrated architect keanu reeves. By not crossing the street, he avoided getting hit by the bus. Jul, 2006 the 1888 house, designed for insurance tycoon george harvey, is at 600 w. The film is a remake of the south korean motion picture il mare 2000. Kate forster plays in the snow her dog jack is not happy. Thus there must be an original history of the world, whether an erased history under replacement theory or a prime universe under divergent dimension theory, in which nothing reaches the past from the as yet unformed future. The reason sandra bullock buys the lake house is because she witnesses keanu reeves death. Kate runs to the lake house to send one last, desperate letter to alex to prevent his death after hearing about his death from his brother and then alex just drives up.
The lake house is a 2006 american romantic drama film directed by alejandro agresti and starring keanu reeves, sandra bullock and christopher plummer. Five childhood friends win their junior high basketball championship. Can anyone explain the ending of the lakehouse movieplease. The film was a of the south korean motion picture il mare 2000. Five years after the camp crystal lake massacre, paul holt opens a counselor training camp across from the site. Since both timelines were existing at the same time, they were both living in the house at the same time, but in separate years.
Alice edevane, sixteen years old and a budding writer, is especially excited. And at this point she yet again asks him to wait 2 years, for his two years older 2008 version to meet her at exactly this place at the lake house on valentines day 2008. The lake house starts with a tragedy the disappearance of a oneyearold boy, theo edevane, from his crib in the country home of a wealthy english family in 1933 and examines it i whipped through this dual or more timeline mystery in a couple of days when i found out my book club is meeting to talk about it at the end of this week. I was looking forward to this movie, because denzel washington and val kilmer are both excellent actors. Accidents the most interesting in time travel terms, and to a lesser degree millennium and deja vu action films with a love story element. Either the timeline just autocorrects immediately, or hes been faking his own death for the last few months just so he can lay a big one on kate. Kate forster plays in the snow her dog jack is not happy wednesday 6th october. Scotts family resort has been providing vacations on beautiful oquaga lake since 1869. How is it that kate wasnt affected when she changed the timeline by saving alex. Lets take a look back at the unforgettable glass house from the romantic drama the lake house back in 2006, speed costars sandra bullock and keanu reeves teamed up again for this remake of the south korean film il mare about a doctor who falls in love with an architect shes never actually met. Movies like the lake house in the list below weve matched up popular movies which include keywords such as future, chicago and romantic drama. The plot is the usual boy gets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl with a little bit of a twist which makes it interesting. This is a visually beautiful movie, especially the lake house i want to own it.
For the 2003 novel of the same name by james patterson, see the lake. However mysterious things start to happen, especially when bullocks character writes a letter hoping the new occupant of the house. The timeline is an intricately detailed sequence of events within the good witch movie franchise. Friday the th, part 2 two days later the killers body is found at a lake house where he has murdered 12 more people. House by the lake is a 2016 american independent horror psychologicalthriller film starring amiah miller, a child actress who rose to fame when war for the planet of the apes came out. At the start of this romance film, kate sandra bullock and alex keanu reeves exchange letters via a magic mailbox at the titular chicago area lake house. Alex and kate are maintaining a correspondence, talking about the house matters, sending each other letters, which are put in the lake houses letter box. With keanu reeves, sandra bullock, christopher plummer, ebon mossbachrach. Children of silence is a hidden object game from developer big fish games.
Everything you need to know about the lake house movie 2006. Keanu didnt shoot any films while sandy worked on premonition for the first few months. She then told him she would be at the house two years later, and to wait until that date and time to find her. The story centers on an architect living in 2004 and a doctor living in 2006. The lake house is a romantic drama from 2006 starring sandra bullock and keanu reeves. It appears as if the box that alex occasionally searches through during the movie, is in one of these glass enclosures, which are on the roof of the lake house. Friday the th full movie friday th part 2 friday the. However mysterious things start to happen, especially when bullocks character writes a letter hoping the new occupant of the house will enjoy it as much as she did.
My interpretation is that theres a single timeline and kate and alex are at two different points in that same timeline. Perhaps most disappointing is the movie s feeble use of the wondrous shohreh aghdashloo xmen. Sep 04, 2018 thank you for watching the lake house explained. Kate leaves the lake house and moves to chicago, taking jack with her, but she leaves the first note mentioning footprints and a box in the attic. The lake house, a wondrously illogical timetravel romance directed by alejandro agresti, is notable mainly for reuniting keanu reeves and. When anna observes that this mystery man must write one hell of a letter to warrant so much mooning, the movie briefly exposes its sense of humor.
How are the time changes in this movie to be followed. The official facebook page for the lake house how do you hold on to someone youve never met. Finding an isolated house to rent for a week or two to simply enjoy yourself through fishing, boating or simple relaxation is a pleasure to enjoy. Can anyone explain the ending of the lakehouse movie. The film is a partial reimagining of creature from the black lagoon. However, when alex receives the book of his fathers memoirs, he looks at a photo of his father and himself, a child, at the lake house. The place is attacked by an unidentified man, with only one survivor. It was written by david auburn and directed by alejandro agresti and stars keanu reeves and sandra bullock as alex wyler and kate forester, an architect and doctor living in 2004 and 2006 respectively.
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