The Lake House (film)

The Lake House
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Directed by	Alejandro Agresti
Produced by	Doug Davison Roy Lee Sonny Mallhi
Screenplay by	David Auburn
Based on	Il Mare by Kim Eun-jeong Kim Mi-yeong
Starring	Keanu Reeves Sandra Bullock Dylan Walsh Shohreh Aghdashloo Christopher Plummer
Music by	Rachel Portman
Cinematography	Alar Kivilo
Edited by	Alejandro Brodersohn Lynzee Klingman
Production company	Village Roadshow Pictures Vertigo Entertainment
Distributed by	Warner Bros. Pictures
Release date	June 16, 2006 (2006-06-16)
Running time	105 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$40 million
Box office	$114.8 million

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The Lake House is a 2006 American romantic drama directed by Alejandro Agresti and starring Keanu Reeves, Sandra Bullock and Christopher Plummer. It was written by David Auburn. The film is a remake of the South Korean motion picture Il Mare (2000). The story centers on an architect living in 2004 and a doctor living in 2006. The two meet via letters left in a mailbox at the lake house they have both lived in at separate points in time; they carry on correspondence over two years, remaining separated by their original difference of two years. For Alex the time goes from 2004 to 2006. For Kate the time goes from 2006 to 2008.

This film reunites Reeves and Bullock for the first time since they co-starred in Speed in 1994.

In 2006, Dr. Kate Forster (Bullock) is leaving a lake house that she has been renting in Madison, Wisconsin to move to Chicago. Kate leaves a note in the mailbox for the next tenant to forward her mail, adding that the paint-embedded pawprints on the path leading to the house were already there when she arrived.

Two years earlier in 2004, Alex Wyler (Reeves), an architect, arrives at the lake house and finds Kate's letter in the mailbox. The house is neglected, with no sign of paw prints anywhere. During the subsequent restoration of the house, a dog runs through Alex's paint and leaves fresh paw prints right where Kate said they would be. Baffled, Alex writes back, asking how Kate knew about the paw prints since the house was unoccupied until he arrived. On Valentine's Day 2006, Kate witnesses a traffic accident near Daley Plaza and tries to save the male victim, unsuccessfully. She impulsively drives back to the lake house, finds Alex's letter and writes back.