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karatiz

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I just watched this movie for I don't know what time, it's just beautiful. A love story that goes byond time. This is one of my favorites, really is

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Posted aug 28, 2008 8:58 am pt

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Like no other romantic movie - True, love conquers anything, but can it conquer time?
It's storyline is simply timeless

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Posted aug 27, 2008 2:53 pm pt

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This movie is so different from other romantic dramas and with Keanu and Sandra in the middle of the storyline I loved it. Though it was alittle confusing to follow at first the time thing with them being 2 years apart is creative and I love that...
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This movie is so different from other romantic dramas and with Keanu and Sandra in the middle of the storyline I loved it. Though it was alittle confusing to follow at first the time thing with them being 2 years apart is creative and I love that they end up at the Lake House in the end.

They should make more movies like this one.

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Posted aug 15, 2008 7:38 pm pt

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one on th bbest romantice movies that I have ever seen in my life,though it is a little bit kinda of sci-fic. but it is so great the story is cool how they met is so cool,and there is the a power that drag you to watch the moviea which at this...
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one on th bbest romantice movies that I have ever seen in my life,though it is a little bit kinda of sci-fic. but it is so great the story is cool how they met is so cool,and there is the a power that drag you to watch the moviea which at this time most of the films lost it,really it is good.

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Posted mar 5, 2008 4:27 pm pt

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I had been waiting to see if Sandra and Keanu would come back together after making the movie Speed years ago because when you get those two on a screen together, it's like you can hear the electricity popping in the air. With the storyline for...
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I had been waiting to see if Sandra and Keanu would come back together after making the movie Speed years ago because when you get those two on a screen together, it's like you can hear the electricity popping in the air. With the storyline for this movie, it makes for a wonderful fluffy angst romance movie. With all that happens and what they go through to find each other and be together, the director in this movie nailed everything on the head and I can't see two other stars for the roles! Great job to Sandra and Keanu for another dazzling movie!

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Posted jul 30, 2007 10:59 pm pt

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This movie is one of my favorites. One I must add to my collection. Reeves and Bullock have great chemistry together and it shows in this movie. Romance movies are my favorite and this movie has so much romance. It was not about, but was about...
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This movie is one of my favorites. One I must add to my collection. Reeves and Bullock have great chemistry together and it shows in this movie. Romance movies are my favorite and this movie has so much romance. It was not about, but was about love. Because the character were living in different times, they had to be get to know each through their letters to each other. That was one of things I liked most. The other was of course the ending. In the end Bullock's character saved Reeves' character life and they were able to be together.

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Posted jun 18, 2007 1:10 am pt

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This is a really good one... Sometimes when it is ment to be even though you can be years apart nothing can stop you from being together.

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Posted jun 2, 2007 4:54 pm pt

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Nice story, great ators like Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves. I actually cried when she tried to save him and waited next to the mailbox. But I fel like the story could have been told better.

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Posted may 10, 2007 4:23 am pt

mammalazz

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this is such a great love story sandra is good in what ever she is in and her chemistry whith keanu who knew he would be so great after bill and teds adventure the is was a great movie

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Posted apr 12, 2007 4:35 am pt

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i love this film its really weird how u can both be in the same place but 2 years apart i think that the film suceeded because of the chemistry between sandra and keanu

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Posted apr 6, 2007 11:48 pm pt

• [+] Chicago Sun-Times
  
  88
  What I respond to in the movie is its fundamental romantic impulse.

  by Roger Ebert | Read Full Review »
• [+] Portland Oregonian
  
  75
  It's hard to overestimate what a job of work was accomplished here to keep this from being a catastrophe. But The Lake House, despite its dubious foundation, proves surprisingly sturdy.

  by Shawn Levy | Read Full Review »
• [+] San Francisco Chronicle
  
  75
  The measure of this kind of movie is its seductiveness, not its logic, nor the ways in which it exploits the supernatural angle, and The Lake House is seductive.

  by Mick LaSalle | Read Full Review »
• [+] The Onion (A.V. Club)
  
  75
  Elegantly scripted by Pulitzer Prize-winner David Auburn, The Lake House never establishes any clear rules about how and when these strands of time can intertwine, but it succeeds at forging a bond between people who only know each other on the page.

  by Scott Tobias | Read Full Review »
• [+] Seattle Post-Intelligencer
  
  75
  Bullock has abandoned all her usual cutesy mannerisms, and Reeves is as low-key and convincing as he's been in a role. Whatever else the film is, it's a competent and enjoyable star vehicle.

  by William Arnold | Read Full Review »
• [+] Charlotte Observer
  
  75
  Bullock and Reeves have an unusual kind of charisma, one that works best when they're apart. Though the filmmakers sometimes put them in the same frame for visual ease, they mostly occupy different times.

  by Lawrence Toppman | Read Full Review »
• [+] Philadelphia Inquirer
  
  75
  An enjoyably sudsy romance starring a moody Keanu Reeves, a broody Sandra Bullock, and the titular structure - a jewel box of glass and steel perched on stilts over Lake Michigan.

  by Carrie Rickey | Read Full Review »
• [+] The New York Times
  
  70
  The movie is, above all, a showcase for its stars, who seem gratifyingly comfortable in their own skin and delighted to be in each other's company again, in another deeply silly, effortlessly entertaining movie.

  by Dana Stevens | Read Full Review »
• [+] New York Magazine
  
  70
  Deliriously stupid romantic time-travel drama.

  by David Edelstein | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Reader
  
  70
  Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves are both such guarded celebrities that I have a hard time imagining them as lovers, a problem this Chicago-based romantic fantasy surmounted by isolating them from each other almost entirely.

  by J.R. Jones | Read Full Review »
• [+] Boston Globe
  
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  How deeply silly is The Lake House? As silly as a movie about two letter-writing lovers separated by a wrinkle in time can be. How much sweet, dumb fun is it? More than you might want to admit.

  by Ty Burr | Read Full Review »
• [+] Premiere
  
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  Where the film falters is in Alejandro Agresti's overly deliberate direction, which threatens to drown the drama in amber sunsets and self-conscious camera framings. The film looks great, but it lacks spontaneity, an important element of the most memorable screen romances.

  by Ethan Alter | Read Full Review »
• [+] TV Guide
  
  63
  Screenwriter David Auburn's awkward dialogue spells out the film's themes with painful literal-mindedness.

  by Maitland McDonagh | Read Full Review »
• [+] New York Daily News
  
  63
  The time-warp romantic fantasy The Lake House is a puzzle that is maddeningly obtuse, emotionally overstretched, and virtually absent a sense of interior logic.

  by Jack Mathews | Read Full Review »
• [+] ReelViews
  
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  I am conflicted about this film. I like the fact that it takes chances. I appreciate that it's trying to do a supernatural love story without falling into the schmaltz of "Ghost." Yet I recognize that the screenplay is like Swiss cheese - riddled with hole.

  by James Berardinelli | Read Full Review »