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1. ags Says:
   June 16th, 2006 at 23:22

   ***WARNING! SPOILERS! ****
   
   
   The movie needs an alternate ending to tie it all together and deliver the goods. At the end Kate needs to have a fatal accident on the way to the Lake House in 2008 that maintains a symmetry with the 2006 accident that results in the death of Alex. In this way it could end in the classic manner of the Ghost and Mrs. Muir as Kate awaits the arrival of Alex at the Lake House in a parallel or alternate universe in 2008. The movie should then end with Kate and Alex holding hands as they walk into the Lake House while the significant and previously quoted passage from Persuasion by Jane Austen scrolls across the screen.

1. Joe Lozito Says:
   June 17th, 2006 at 16:21

   **MILD SPOILERS BELOW**
   
   I'm with you on this one. I love a good time travel story, but this one never quite finds its magic. I also agree that the ending is too much of a cheat. There are some much more poignant ways they could have gone.
   
   Interestingly, I think the best scene took place in 2004 when Alex goes to Kate's birthday party and they get to know each other on the porch in one long, gutsy, uncut shot. That's some of the best acting either star has done and shows what's missing from "Lake House" - the actors that we came to see actually in a scene together.

1. amitaf Says:
   July 8th, 2006 at 08:23

   its an interesting movie.......more power and goodluck!!!!!!!!!

1. David G. Says:
   November 15th, 2006 at 21:34

   I just watched the DVD. Am I losing it of was there a different ending at the theaters?

1. Dee Says:
   December 16th, 2006 at 23:31

   I watched this movie three times already and each time I just get more confused. Case in point...Happy New Year's 2006 scene with Alex staring out the window. The scene where Alex and his brother are walking down the street and the brother says it is Valentines day 2006. When Alex's brother says he died two years ago when he met with Kate and Morgan. I believe this meeting occurred in 2006 since Kate ran off to meet Alex on Valentines Day 2006. Boy do I have a headache!!!

1. Ashlee S Says:
   January 8th, 2007 at 14:38

   This movie is the best one yet. I don't know how you can be so confused about this film. It was a great chick flick I bought it once it came out on video. Well done.

1. Ryan Says:
   March 2nd, 2007 at 13:43

   Watch the original Korean version "IL MARE", compare both films, i think the korean version is better although it's really an emotional movie. I prefer Il Mare.

1. monique Says:
   April 9th, 2007 at 22:13

   ok if anyone understood the ending of this movie or any part of it whatsoever please tell me.

1. Cindy M. Says:
   April 27th, 2007 at 17:15

   Another comment I wanted to add is that after Alex got the book Persuasion at the train station (did he really find it in 2004 or did he go back in time with the experiment that she asked of him to find it)...anyway, after he got it, how did it end up in the floor board of her fancy condo on 1620 Racine, Chicago where Morgan was living with her for "a year"? In the beginning of the movie, Alex reads the letter stating that there is a box in the attic but he doesn't see it. At the end of the movie, you realize that it is there. He put all the letters in it with the book. He ran back to the house before the end of the movie and reread her letter when he realized she was trying to save his life. Apparently he was on his way to Daley Plaza to find her and she asks him not to come -- to wait...which he obviously does...so how did the book get to the apartment....and for God sake, who lived in the Lake House first????? Did she live there in 2005? Then Alex bought it? Or what? I thought I was fairly intelligent until I watched this movie and I actually love it.

1. Cindy M. Says:
   April 27th, 2007 at 17:15

   Okay, a few confusing scenes -- I have watched this movie over and over. In 2006, Kate writes Alex and asks him to go to the train station at 1:45 in his time (2004) in the early summer to find a book called Persuasion. He goes. You know it is early summer because in Wisconsin, the Dogwood and the Cherry Blossoms bloom in June. So he runs after the train with the book and we don't know if she sees him but he sees her. He tells her so in his letters to her. He then meets her at Morgan's surprise birthday party for Kate (supposedly August of 2004) and he kisses Kate and asks her about the book Persuasion and she becomes aggitated because it is "erry" to her. If that was actually the first time he met her, how could he have known about the book already? Then in 2006, when he was in his brother's apartment (or did they share it because I thought her moved out of the lake house and in with his brother before he gave the key and the dog to Morgan to rent the Lake House for Kate -- see how confusing this is! Okay, so was he really in his brother's apt. or was it surreal? He went away 2000-2004 to get away from his father. He came back and bought the Lake House but I thought Kate moved out first which would have meant she lived there 2002-2004 but she was in Madison in med school. It is way too confusing. At times, Jack the dog is referred to as "him" and other times as "her". Mona said, "at least you found him" in front of Alex -- didn't he know it was a girl????? Can someone help me????

1. bobbie r Says:
   May 21st, 2007 at 01:45

   I caught this movie about 10 minutes into it, and actually enjoyed it. I've not been a Bullock/Reeves fan for a while (got tired of same old characteristics), but they were different in this one. However (and it's a big however), after the ending, all I could say was "Huh?!" How could they ever meet in person, without time standing still for one of them? There is nothing to indicate either pg yjr, traveled forward or back in time, and we're supposed to believe they could actually meet face to face? I've read lots of explanations, but none of them help. Help?

1. Heather Says:
   May 27th, 2007 at 17:23

   What was the quote ALex high lighted in the Persuasion Book that Kate read out loud when she found the book in the floor board ?

1. Heather Says:
   May 31st, 2007 at 03:17

   Just for others who may want to know the answer to this question. I found what the quote is :
   
   Could have been no two hearts so open, No tastes so similar, No feelings so in unison, No countenances so beloved.
   
   I don't remember that last line from the movie about the countenances, but I found it on line and they say it is on there. It took me a couple days but I found the answer. Hope this puts another Lake House fan out of there misery.

1. Connor Says:
   July 3rd, 2007 at 13:23

   I only watched this movie tonight and it was as plain as day to follow. Everything made sense except for Kate finding the book in her apartment, which is an impossibility.
   
   If you really want to understand these type of movies, just watch Pulp Fiction. Quentin Tarantino does a brilliant job with these type of movies.
   
   Once you can completely understand his movies... You can understand any movies that try to go in the same direction.

1. Nefertiri Says:
   October 7th, 2007 at 14:05

   I agree with Connor, everything made sense except for the novel ended up in Kate's apartment.
   
   The unfair thing about the story is that Alex got to be together with Kate because Kate had a chance to warned him from the future so it's a happy ending for HIS version of time period. But in the future (Kate's version), Alex was already died so there's no happy ending there.
   But in other perspective, both of them had the same ending in each time period. In Alex's version of 2006, both had a happy ending, Kate and Alex ended up together. But in Kate's version of 2006 (the future), Alex died with a broken heart while looking at Kate from across the street, while Kate didn't even know it until Alex's brother told her. So no happy ending for the future Alex & Kate, more like a tragic love story.
   
   Overall, it's a beautifully done movie.
   I'm crazy about such love that's worth a fight, to wait, and sacrifices, so yeah The Lake House is definitely one of my favorite.
   BEAUTIFUL.

1. jaker Says:
   October 29th, 2007 at 12:39

   its a fucking annoying freaking thing..in other words, stop watching it and try to confusr yourselves, you fucking freaks, asshole butts SUCKERZ>......

1. Malachi Says:
   January 5th, 2008 at 21:18

   oookkaaay...
   
   I really liked this movie. I got the gist straight away but unfortunately guessed that the dead guy at the beginning of the film was the male protagonist which kind of spoiled it for me a little... but nevertheless I enjoyed the ride- the performances from both leads were very good- Keanu's was extremely gd for me as I've never seen him on this level of capability before. So kiss it to all the Reeves haters ;] - Bullock was great as per usual- she is definitely one of the best female leads of our generation.
   
   But...
   
   I totally understand why the novel was in the apartment found by Kate: he moved to the address that he knew she would eventually move to- the address he had sent all his letters to.
   
   But the question was how on earth would she know where in the apartment it was hidden? Perhaps wishful thinking on Alex's part? Seems a bit too contrived but as another character says earlier in the film (about another inconsistency- 'Time'): ''it's just details''
   
   But the ending cannot be so easily dismissed- i didn't get it. Re: Connors comment above- Tarrintino's Pulp Fiction is not much like this movie in the sense that it only shows the story in a non-chronological order only; whereas this film has two different time dimensions.
   
   How can Alex have died in 2006 yet the future me altered so that he doesn't when he reads Kate's Warning? Why does he read the warning the second time and not the first? Does he really live and find her at the Lake house in 2008 thus changing history- or is it in her mind? I he a Ghost? Is she a Ghost? Is the ending them both dead and finally together? Which would make more sense....
   
   But anyway, its a film that was enjoyable (in a wallowing way) and also makes one think. Thus a very good movie. Well done.
   
   

1. Sharon Says:
   January 7th, 2008 at 17:25

   Basically he died in the begining, but yes, the future was altered by her asking him to wait and to not meet her on that day at the square, so he wouldnt die in order for them to meet in the future. The circumstanses need to happen for the two of them to meet. She needed to see him die in her arms for her to even end up in the Lake House. He of course was the first to occupy the Lake House. You do have to have a bit of an imagination to appreciate the film and have a love of destiny and things happening for a reason to get it fully. I liked it.

1. Sheila HOpkins Says:
   January 22nd, 2008 at 18:47

   I have watched this movie so many times (it is now on cable) that I can't begin to count. This is one of the best romantic movies I've seen in a long time. I understood what was going on from the beginning. Kate realized how much she loved Alex after he died. She prevented his death by writing the letter which he read in the attic. The book was placed in the floor board before she moved into the apt. Remember he knew her address. Since the movie was about waiting and fate....it would only make since that she would find the book and that she would go to his brother's office on the day Alex was going to die. My only wish is that they would have seen more of each other in Alex's time.
   
   Does anyone know if the Lake House is based on a book? If so, do you know the name?

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