The Lake House (2006)
Directed by Alejandro Agresti
When architect Alex Wyler moves into an unusual glass house on stilts over a lake, he discovers a note from the previous tenant in the mailbox--but no one's lived in the house for years. He replies and soon discovers that he's corresponding with a doctor named Kate Forster. Their correspondence, only through the 'magical' mailbox, turns romantic and their paths cross in unexpected ways, but when they try to truly connect, danger looms. They must try to unravel the mystery behind their extraordinary romance before it's too late.
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Twice in the course of the film, a character watches bits of "Notorious" on TV, which seems odd — like someone dug up the wrong Cary Grant movie.
Twice we see scenes from Alfred Hitchcock's Notorious playing on a TV.
As the final moments wrap up, one canât help but contemplate the film thatâs repeatedly referenced as an icon of romance throughout The Lake House, Alfred Hitchcockâs masterpiece Notorious.
Twice during the new film The Lake House, characters watch Alfred Hitchcock's Notorious (1946) on television, specifically the famous "kissing" scene.
On second thoughts, "together" doesn't quite explain the state in which they find themselves in The Lake House, which is a Sleepless in Seattle-type love story - an example of the delayed gratification model, where circumstances conspire to ensure that the lovers spend much of the picture apart.
Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan had it in Sleepless in Seattle.
Combine equal parts "Memento" and "Sleepless in Seattle" and you might concoct something like "The Lake House," an Americanization of the fascinating 2000 Korean romantic fantasy "Il Mare," in which two solitary souls make a connection via enchanted letters.
Like "Sleepless in Seattle" and, to a similar extent, "Heat", the audience for "House" has come to the theater looking to see two stars play together on screen.
The premise may remind you of “Frequency,” the 2000 Dennis Quaid/Jim Caviezel film about a father and son who communicate 30 years apart through an old wireless radio.
Director Alejandro Agresti’s The Lake House, based on a South Korean film called Il Mare, takes the premise that launched movies such as Back to the Future and Frequency and asks, "What would a good boyfriend do with these powers?"
It’s a convention of science fiction films and it rarely works there (see Star Trek: First Contact for one of film history’s few capable time-hopping stories), so it’s no surprise that it doesn’t happen well here.