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Summary:
Feeling that it’s time for a
change in her life, Dr. Kate Forster 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, 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, 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. 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.
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Box Office Info:
Cast:
Keanu Reeves (as Alex Burnham )
Sandra Bullock (as Kate Forster )
Willeke van Ammelrooy (as Kate's Mother )
Mike Bacarella (as Mulhern )
April Chancy (as Pedestrian, Driver )
Matthew Burton Coyle (as Man at Fourth of July Celebration )
Tavares Davies (as Flag Man )
Diane Frances Fisher (as Restaurant Patron )
Lori Ann Gerdisch (as ICU Nurse )
Thaddeus Griebel (as Restaurant Patron )
Caitlin Harrington (as Hospital Visitor )
Patricia E. Harrington (as Businesswoman )
Justin D. Jones (as Gunshot victim )
Alexandra LoRusso (as Messenger )
Cynthia Kaye McWilliams (as Vanessa Vanderbeck )
Ebon Moss-Bachrach (as Henry )
Christopher Plummer (as Louis Burnham )
Jonathan Samuels (as Architect )
Monica Szaflik (as Waitress )
Dylan Walsh (as Morgan )
Directed By: Alejandro Agresti
Written By: David Auburn
Produced By: Warner Bros.
Release Date (US): June 16th, 2006
Length of Movie: 1h 45min
MPAA Rating: PG for some language and a disturbing image
Budget: $40,000,000
Opening Weekend: $13,616,196
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The Lake House Soundtrack
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1. This Never Happened Before - Paul McCartney
2. (I Can’t Seem To) Make You Mine - The Clientele
3. Time Has Told Me - Nick Drake
4. Ant Farm - Eels
5. It’s Too Late - Carole King
6. The Lakehouse - Rachel Portman
7. Pawprints - Rachel Portman
8. Tough Week - Rachel Portman
9. Mailbox - Rachel Portman
10. Sunsets - Rachel Portman
11. Alex's Father - Rachel Portman
12. Il Mare - Rachel Portman
13. Tell Me More - Rachel Portman
14. She's Gone - Rachel Portman
15. Wait For Me - Rachel Portman
16. You Waited - Rachel Portman
17. I Waited - Rachel Portman
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