Lake House

This is one of my favorite movie that I have caught in 2006. One of the most memorable movie to me, and touched me the most during that period of time, and gave me most of my courage to Love then. Lake House, a movie with Keanu Reeves as Alex Wyler and Sandra Bullock as Dr Kate Foster in the story. And out of the sudden urge, I watched it again.

Feeling that it’s time for a change in her life, Dr. Kate Forester 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 has 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 lake 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, 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 (CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER), a renowned architect who let his professional acclaim 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.

Just for argument’s sake, what day is it there?

April 14, 2004.

No, she says. It’s April 14, 2006.

The same day, two years apart.

Can this be happening?

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.
Synopsis by Cinemas-OnLine.co.uk, 23 Jun 2006

The scene that I loved the best is the walk on a very Saturday during the summer after according to the map showing the sequence of visit places. Just as they were introducing their likings and each others commitment and Alex claims that he is married and have 8 children and none of them look like him. After that, they both make a joke out of it and claims single.. How sweet can they get. And the part that makes me teared (yes, I teared) is the ending.. What's the ending? I am sure it would cause most people tear.. A happy ending of course, shouldn't sat anything more then that. For those who haven't watched the movie, give it a try, you won't get away empty handed and I'm sure you will love it. My grading for it: 5 out of 5 stars.