The Lake House [Blu-ray]

Director: Alejandro Agresti, Dylan Walsh, Keanu Reeves, Sandra Bullock

Overview

Two people develop an unusual relationship that bends the boundaries of time and place in this romantic fantasy. Kate Forster (Sandra Bullock) is a doctor who lives in a beautiful home by a lake. Forced to move elsewhere, she requests that any correspondence that arrives at the lake house be passed on to her new address. To her surprise, she soon receives a romantic note from Alex Burnham (Keanu Reeves), an architect who lives in the cottage she once called home. However, a look at the postmark on the letter reveals that he lived at the home two years before she did, and that somehow they've come in contact with one another through a space in time. A remake of Lee Hyun-seung's acclaimed Korean romance Il Mare (aka Siworae), The Lake House was the first American production from Argentinean filmmaker Alejandro Agresti; the supporting cast includes Christopher Plummer, Dylan Walsh, and Lynn Collins.

Product Details

Release Date:	09/26/2006
UPC:	0012569829640
Original Release:	2006
Rating:	PG
Source:	Warner Home Video
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround]
Language:	English
Time:	1:38:00
Sales rank:	16,876

Special Features

Additional scenes and outtakes; Theatrical trailer

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Keanu Reeves	Alex Wyler
Sandra Bullock	Dr. Kate Forster
Shohreh Aghdashloo	Dr. Anna Klyczynski
Dylan Walsh	Morgan
Christopher Plummer	Simon Wyler
Willeke van Ammelrooy	Kate's Mother
Ebon Moss-Bachrach	Henry Wyler
Lynn Collins	Mona
India Neilan	Hostess
Mike Bacarella	Mulhern
Scott Elias	Doug
Lori Ann Gerdisch	ICU Nurse
Michael Andrew Gorman	Bartender,Cove Bartender
Cynthia Kaye McWilliams	Vanessa
Kevin Brennan	Waiter,Kellner
Frank Caeti	Cove Patron
Jennifer Kern	Nurse
Nora Newbrough	Marjorie
Mia Park	Receptionist
Peggy Roeder	Attendant
Jason Wells	Costello
Jacqueline Williams	Madhvi Patel
Jason Abustan	Ivy League Jr. Architect
Nathan Adloff	Restaurant Patron
Aliyah Carr	Girl Patient
Jennifer Clark	Nurse Practitioner
Patricia E. Harrington	Businesswoman
Joy Kocay	Party Goer
Ernie Lang	Restaurant Patron
Alexandra LoRusso	Messenger
Marissa Newton	Hostess No. 2
January Scarpino	Pediatrician
Andrea N. Winters	Waitress
Alan Bovinett	Restaurant Patron
Jason Frederick	Ice Skater
Drama	Actor
Rachel Portman	Composer
Paul M. van Brugge	Composer

Technical Credits

Roy Lee

David Auburn

Roy Lee	Producer,Screenwriter
Doug Davison	Producer
David Auburn	Screenwriter
Jason Piccioni	Special Effects
Bruce Berman	Executive Producer,Producer
Mary McLaglen	Executive Producer,Producer
Erwin Stoff	Executive Producer,Producer
Sonny Mallhi	Producer
Ron Bartlett	Sound Effects
Paul Timothy Carden	Sound Effects
Jed M. Dodge	Sound Effects
Rickley W. Dumm	Sound Effects
Hal Gaba	Executive Producer
Dana Goldberg	Producer
Lori J. Nelson	Special Effects

Scene Index

Disc #1 -- Lake House
1. Chapter 1
2. Chapter 2
3. Chapter 3
4. Chapter 4
5. Chapter 5
6. Chapter 6
7. Chapter 7
8. Chapter 8
9. Chapter 9
10. Chapter 10
11. Chapter 11
12. Chapter 12
13. Chapter 13
14. Chapter 14
15. Chapter 15
16. Chapter 16
17. Chapter 17
18. Chapter 18
19. Chapter 19
20. Chapter 20
21. Chapter 21

Menu

Disc #1 -- Lake House
Languages
Spoken Languages
English 5.1
Français 5.1 (Doublé au Québec)
Español 5.1
Subtitles
English
English (For the Hearing Impaired)
Français
Español
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Scene Selections
Special Features
Behind the Story
Additional Scenes and Outtakes: Play All
Additional Scenes and Outtakes: Doug Bores Alex and Mona With Conversation at Party
Additional Scenes and Outtakes: Alex Meets Henry at the Hospital (Outside Wyler's Room)
Additional Scenes and Outtakes: Alex and Wyler in Hospital Room
Additional Scenes and Outtakes: Alex Dumps Mona
Additional Scenes and Outtakes: Alex Listens to Henry/Vanessa Discuss "Visionary Vanguard"
Trailers
Theatrical Trailer
Play Movie

Editorial Reviews

An old-fashioned, dreamlike romance of the three-hanky variety, The Lake House reunites Speed stars Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock, albeit in a decidedly more sedate fashion. Reeves portrays Alex Wyler, a young architect frustrated in his career and ill at ease in the shadow of his famous father (Christopher Plummer). Bullock plays lonely doctor Kate Forster, a workaholic who gives up a beautiful lakeside house, leaving a note for its new occupant -- Wyler -- in the mailbox. His response inaugurates an odd but endearing epistolary courtship. Matters are somewhat complicated, in that she writes from 2006, whereas he appears (as per the postmarks) to be writing from 2004. Argentine director Alejandro Agresti’s first American film, remaking South Korean director Hyun-seung Lee’s 2000 film Siworae (released in the U.S. on DVD as Il Mare), does not for a second concern itself with supplying a rationale for the time disparity. The Lake House is a modern-day fairy tale about the ability of kindred souls to find each other even when everything in the known world suggests any such connection is impossible. If you’re prepared to throw logic to the wind and open your heart to the charms of this unusual love story, a visit to this The Lake House is very much recommended.