The Lake House (HD DVD, 2007)

The Lake House with Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock (2006) came out at the prefect time in my life. In 2006 when the movie came out, my husband and I were about to start out on the last leg of a path that took over 2 years to fulfill.

One day back in 2004 we looked at each other at dinner in our new house of less than a year and somebody said, "Have you ever thought what it would be like to just sell everything we own and move some place far away from here where it’s green and beautiful?" Some how that question, that same question that almost everyone asks at some time in their life, took on a magical essence and it became our goal. For 24 grueling months we sorted, sold, donated, tossed and gifted almost everything we owned. Then finally in the summer of 2006, we sold our house and set out on a 2835 mile trip across the country to live in a house by a lake, deep in the beautiful woods of the Carolinas.

About the time we were finalizing our plans and were ready to hit the road, a movie hit the big screen called The Lake House. It became a special part of our own story, at least in my mind. Yet I wouldn't see it until a year after we moved into our own lake house.

The movie has many twists and turns. It does odd things with time and weaves itself into the very unusual architecture of a house on a lake. In a very strange way two strangers living in two different times several years apart, manage to touch each other's lives to become forever in love, yet separated by time, and even death. Oh there were certainly some flaws in the logic of the story. Things happened that seemed to me to muddy the story unnecessarily. But in the final analysis I have added it to the other 2 or 3 movies that I will own and watch many times. And I will love every moment of every repeated viewing as I sob all over again just like I did the first time I saw it.

There goes that hopeless romantic again.

I won't put this movie up on the top of the must own list as I did with LadyHawke. Many of you won't agree with me about this one. I will quickly agree with those who don’t think it deserves so lofty a ranking. But then that's what makes a hopeless romantic tick isn't it? Something strikes a cord in our hearts that others would not even notice. And so it should be. For we each travel on different paths in this world. If this movie isn't a fit for you on your path, be sure to find one that is.

Thank you for reading my guide.