Oh man, just finished watching "The Lake House" which is a long overdue movie for me.....

it a great film in 2006 which is or was a remake of the korean version of Il Mare in 2000..... starring Jun Ji-hyun and Jung-Jae both are my fav......... i prefer the korean one though but the eng one staring Keanu Reeves (afer he slimed down) and Sandra Bullock. The finally got paired up after Speed in 1994 which is oh my God, 10 over years liao.......

Il Mare (시월애, Siworae) means 'The Sea' in Italian and is the name of the seaside house which is the setting of the story. The Korean title, siworae is the Korean pronunciation of Hanja"時越愛," meaning "time-transcending love."

Lovely isnt it, 2 person from diff time zone get to know n fall in love n be realistic abt life then finally get together after going through the fear of losing each other......... Which is beta, a love that stand through time and testing or one that goes off after time.........

Actually, i like the house best, both the eng and korean version...... if i can afford to buy or build the ni think i can live in one for retirement..........

The movie centers around lonely Dr. Kate Forster who, on a winter morning in 2006, reluctantly leaves the beautiful lake house where she has been living for a job in a Chicago hospital. On her way to Chicago, she leaves a note for the lake house's new tenant asking him to kindly forward her mail and telling him the paw prints by the front door and the box in the attic were there when she moved in.
However, Alex Wyler, the new tenant and an Architect, sees a different lake house, one which was neglected, dirty, and with certainly no paw prints and no box in the attic. He disregards Kate's letter until a few days later; he is painting the handrails on the walkway to the house and a stray dog runs through the paint tray leaving paw prints where Kate said they would be. He runs back into the lake house and re-reads her letter. He writes back to Kate, wanting to know more about the paw prints and leaves the letter in the mailbox.
Meanwhile, after witnessing a horrible accident where a bus hits and kills a man, Kate needs some time away so she visits the lake house. Nobody appears to be living there, but she notices the mail box flag is up. She finds a letter addressed to her from Alex but dated 2004. In her second letter to Alex, Kate writes: "Oh, by the way it is 2006. Has been all year, ask anyone." Kate mentions she is presently [in 2006] living at 1620 North Racine in Chicago. Alex goes to that address [in 2004], with the intention of personally delivering a letter to her at her apartment, and discovers that an unfinished construction site exists at 1620 North Racine. Alex estimates that the site will not be finished for another 18 months. They begin to understand they are living 2 years apart: he in 2004 and she in 2006. The lake house, its enchanted mailbox, and the stray dog (whom Kate has named Jack, even though Jack is a female) are the only things linking them together.
As Kate and Alex continue to correspond through the mailbox, they find themselves falling in love. Because Kate is in the future, she can tell Alex specific places to look for her in 2004. On one occasion, she asks Alex to bring her back something important (a gift from her father; her favorite novel by Jane Austen called Persuasion), which she left two years ago during a train station meeting with her then-beau, Morgan. Alex goes to the station and finds the item and sees Kate with long hair. Even though he has the item, he does not place it in the mailbox to return it to her. Instead, he says that he will return it to her personally, "one way or the other." Alex sends her a personalized map of Chicago and takes her on a walking tour of his favorite places in the city one Saturday morning. He leaves her a loving message on a brick wall at the end written in 2004, that she sees in 2006. The message was "Kate, I am here with you. thank you for spending this Saturday together". The word "together" was written because Kate would have loved it if Alex were there to walk with her.
Late one afternoon, as Alex's female suitor Mona is flirting with him and Alex is ignoring her advances, Jack runs off. Alex chases Jack across town and ends up at Kate's boyfriend Morgan's house. Mona catches up with Alex and Jack, and Morgan invites them to Kate's surprise birthday party. At the party, Kate is frustrated with Morgan's sincere but smothering ways. Alex walks outside on the porch and finds Kate alone, and he begins to talk to her. Alex would like to let this earlier version of Kate know that her "letter paramour" is here in person. Kate does not know who Alex is, as their relationship is in her future. However, the two share a dance and a romantic moment, but it is interrupted by Morgan and Mona.
Later, they discuss the birthday party, and she reveals to Alex that she liked him that night. This is the first time she remembers what he looks like.
Crisis enters Alex's life when his estranged father, a brilliant and renowned Architect, has a heart attack and shortly thereafter dies. Kate somehow discovers his death certificate at the time he dies. She rushes to the mailbox and as a gift to Alex, she places a book in the mailbox: a tribute to Alex's father that Kate has obtained, not yet published in Alex's time. Alex weeps over his lost father.
Determined to bridge the distance between them at last and unravel the mystery behind their extraordinary connection, they tempt fate by arranging to meet. Alex makes a reservation in 2004 for a date in 2006 at Il Mare, a fancy restaurant (an homage to the original Korean motion picture), but only Kate appears. Alex does not show up. The next day Kate writes Alex a letter telling Alex of this fact, but he doesn't understand. "Something must have happened" he responds. Kate retreats, believing she will never have happiness. She urges Alex to move on. She tells him about Valentine's Day 2006 when a man died "in her arms", and that she needs to live her own life. She asks Alex not to contact her again. Alex leaves her a growing pile of letters in the mailbox that she never retrieves. He is brokenhearted and decides to leave the lake house. He places the box in the attic that Kate referred to in her first letter.
Alex appears to Morgan (his truck packed for his move to the city) and hands him the keys to the lake house. At this time Jack the dog seems to be left with Morgan and now becomes Kate's dog. Alex drives off.
He moves to Chicago. Kate renews her relationship with Morgan, but doesn't appear to be happy. She and Alex do not exchange letters as Kate no longer goes to the mailbox. Almost one year passes.
One afternoon, Kate is watching an old movie in one room of her Chicago apartment while Morgan is working in another room. They are apparently living together. Perturbed when Morgan asks her to turn the TV down, she turns it off, and irritated, walks into their bedroom where a squeaky floorboard finally gets her attention. She stomps on it and it completely comes off revealing a small package hidden underneath. It is her Jane Austen book that Alex has carefully left for her. He has left a flower marking a specific piece of text that touches Kate's heart. She realizes she still loves Alex.
New Year Eve 2005 finds Alex at some party sadly overlooking the city. It is New Year's Eve 2007 for Kate.
On Valentine's Day 2008, Kate and Morgan arrange to meet at an architectural firm unknowingly owned by Alex's brother, Henry. They are renovating an old house. As they exit Kate notices a drawing on the wall of the lake house and inquires as to its artist. When told it is Alex Wyler, she asks as to his whereabouts and is told he died in an accident 2 years ago this day. This explains why Alex didn't show up at the Il Mare. He had already "died." What Kate didn't realize was she left Alex a clue (in 2006 that he read in 2004) as to her future whereabouts, a clue that would not click in until that warm day on February 14, 2006 (at Daley Plaza) and would have devastating consequences. But this date (in Kate's time) is just when Alex and Kate started the correspondence at the lake house. She had left him only 1 letter, but for Alex, 2006 means he has "known" Kate for 2 years already. The only memory Kate has of Alex at this point is at her birthday party at Morgan's house when she danced and then kissed Alex to the Paul McCartney song, "This Never Happened Before".
On Valentine's Day 2006 Alex and his brother Henry are walking outside and a comment is made about the unusually warm weather. When Alex asks his brother go out later, Henry tells him he has other plans with his girlfriend Vanessa. It is, after all, Valentine's Day. Something clicks in Alex's head and he takes off for the lake house and retrieves a specific letter. He knows where Kate is going to be that day and intends on finding her.
The 2008 Kate has also put everything together and dashes out of the office and races to the lake house to frantically warn Alex via the mailbox that HE is the man who "died in her arms" that day. She does not know if he will receive it in time or not. She tells him NOT to go to the plaza but to wait 2 years and go to the lake house where she is now. For the first time she expresses her love for him. He receives the letter in time, and sees her in the plaza, and changing history, does NOT cross the street and escapes his original fate. Kate, weeping at the mail box, hears somebody drive up to the lake house. It is an older Alex. She tearfully says "you waited" before being cut off as Alex kisses her. In the end of the movie, Alex and Kate walk into the lake house together.