The Lake House (2006) Keanu Reeves, Sandra Bullock, Christopher Plummer This movie is an absolute must for romantics and those who can enjoy make-believe and the whimsy of time-travel.

The Lake House is a slow-moving, slow-paced, sweet movie about two people who fall in love. The trouble is that they cannot connect because one lives two years in the future and one lives two years in the past. Only their mailboxes and Jack, the dog, unite them. Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock are Alex Wyler and Dr. Kate Forster in this adult fairytale. Bullock was recently seen in the award winning movie Crash. She was also in Miss Congeniality (2000), Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and fabulous (2005), and Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (2002)

When Kate moves out of an unusual and isolated glass house on a lake, she leaves a note for the next tenant. In the note, she mentions a dog and his footprints. Architect/real estate developer Alex finds the note, but is puzzled because he knows for sure that there was no recent previous tenant. Remember he is living in 2004, so she has not been to the house yet. He responds to Kate to explain that there has been no tenant in the glass house. Curiously, he does find doggy footprints. Thus begins the “once upon a time” story of Kate and Alex.

Actor Christopher Plummer seems to be showing up everywhere in film these days (Inside Man 2006 and Must Love Dogs). In The Lake House, he is Simon Wyler, Alex’s cold, authoritative and famous architect father (he is the one who built the glass house), who does not understand why his talented son is building suburban tract houses.

Romantics will understand this movie, others may pick the premise apart, the years are 2004 (his) and 2006 (hers), why snail-mail in this age of e-mail? Alex does not seem to care about politics or anything else concerning the future, at one point does ask how things are in the future, Kate simply responds that not much has changed. Surely he would be curious to know who is president now, the price of gas, something. Perhaps the fact that they are living two years apart is problematic enough. Alex and Kate do have other love interests, but now they only have 'eyes' for each other as they fall hopelessly and helplessly in love. They continue writing and they rush to their mailboxes to await replies. At one point their love becomes more complicated and hurtful when they discover that their physical paths have crossed. Fortunately, each of them has a confidante to whom they finally and hesitatingly reveal their unique love affair. Caution, The Lake House is for romantics only.

The Lake House [Blu-ray] is available from Amazon.com.