2006 · romance · drama · fantasy
The Lake House
Directed by Alejandro Agresti1h 39m2006
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.
Our read: The Lake House (2006) reads as a neutral, steady, inventive romance · drama · fantasy entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, steady, measured romance / drama, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, tender.
- inventive
- tender
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