I am of the generation that has grown into middle-age along with him, and seen him negotiate the media glare with dignity and a humbling lack of ego. Something of a guilty pleasure all to himself, ever since he opened his arms to a lovelorn River Phoenix by the campfire in Gus Van Sant's My Own Private Idaho all those years ago, Keanu has been my secret cinematic blue blanket. ![]() The other reason for the film's unholy power over me can be summed up in a single word: Keanu. Reading on mobile? Watch the trailer for The Lake House here ![]() The central conceit of the film involves the two characters existing at different times, (for Bullock the year is 2006, Keanu it is two years in the past), and yet finding they are able to communicate, and so fall in love, via the magical mailbox of the titular house. ![]() But I'm ashamed to say the film exerts a terrible power that has me returning to it, like a junkie, again and again, to the extent that I felt compelled to shamefacedly purchase said DVD.Ī simple story of time-crossed lovers (OK, not so simple), The Lake House ticks all the usual chick flick boxes – the presence of Sandra Bullock, a handsome but still everyman-ish male lead in the shape of Keanu Reeves, a resolutely middle-class world (Keanu plays an architect, Bullock a doctor), faintly disharmonious family relationships (Christopher Plummer plays Keanu's overbearing, emotionally absent father). With it's soft-focus, cheesy-wedding-photo shot of the two leads, even the DVD cover of time-travel romance The Lake House is enough to make most red-blooded males a little queasy.
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