Director: Alejandro Agresti

Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance

Runtime: 99 Minutes

Main Cast: Keanu Reeves, Sandra Bullock, Christopher Plummer, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Willeke Van Ammelrooy, Dylan Walsh, Shohreh Aghdashloo

Plot: Kate leaves a letter at her lake house home before she leaves asking the new owner to forward any mail she gets. Alex, the new owner replies with confusion as the house has been abandoned for years. A romance blossoms between the two as they exchange letters but a problem is apparent, Kate lives in 2006 and Alex lives in 2004.

My Thoughts: Ah yes, I’ve slipped into that stage of actor obsession where I start digging up their old romance movies. In my defence, my local cinema doesn’t seem to showing anything other than 30 screenings a day of The Lion King. Although, I’m behind on the Blind Spot Series and my watch list certainly isn’t getting any smaller so…

Anyway – onto the movie! I’m marking this as spoilers because I’m not sure how much of the plot is general knowledge. It took me far too long to actually let my brain switch off and enjoy this movie for what it is, I was definitely taking it too seriously for too long. You know that meme of Charlie Day with his map and markers looking a bit crazy? That was me for the first 45 minutes at least. I kept pausing and trying to work out how any of it was possible!

If you don’t like the sound of a magical mailbox with the power to deliver letters to and from the future then this isn’t the movie for you. But if you can push that to one side, The Lake House is actually a nice little romantic story. If Sandra Bullock gets to do another romantic movie with one of my favourite actors though I swear…it’s just not fair!

Best Bit: I’m not normally this sappy but I loved the final scene where Kate and Alex finally meet again. Just too darn cute!

Worst Bit: The Lady who works the counter at that fancy restaurant is the worst. Like, you get all snobby when announcing that you’re fully booked till October because that’s just how good the place is, then get all confused when Keanu Reeves wants to book a table in 2 years time? If Keanu wants a table in 2 years time you GIVE him the table in 2 years time!

Fun Trivia: The actual house did not exist, and was built for the movie, then dismantled. In using Google Earth to see the house, enter 41.7142, -87.8901 in the window on the Fly To tab. This will take you to the center of the lake. Zoom to the clearing on the eastern shore. Then select April 29, 2005 as the date.

My Rating: 3 copies of Persuasion by Jane Austen, and if you happen to leave them behind at a train station, just ask Keanu to fetch them for you!