<P> The Lake House is a 2006 American romantic drama directed by Alejandro Agresti and starring Keanu Reeves, Sandra Bullock and Christopher Plummer . It was written by David Auburn . The film is a remake of the South Korean motion picture Il Mare (2000). The story centers on an architect living in 2004 and a doctor living in 2006 . The two meet via letters left in a mailbox at the lake house they have both lived in at separate points in time; they carry on correspondence over two years, remaining separated by their original difference of two years . </P> <P> This film reunites Reeves and Bullock for the first time since they co-starred in Speed in 1994 . </P> <P> In 2006, Dr. Kate Forrester (Sandra Bullock) is leaving a lake house that she has been renting in Madison, Wisconsin to move to Chicago . Kate leaves a note in the mailbox for the next tenant to forward her mail, adding that the paint - embedded pawprints on the path leading to the house were already there when she arrived . </P> <P> Two years earlier in 2004, Alex Wyler (Reeves), an architect, arrives at the lake house and finds Kate's letter in the mailbox . The house is neglected, with no sign of paw prints anywhere . During the subsequent restoration of the house, a dog runs through Alex's paint and leaves fresh paw prints right where Kate said they would be . Baffled, Alex writes back, asking how Kate knew about the paw prints since the house was unoccupied until he arrived . On Valentine's Day 2006, Kate witnesses a traffic accident near Daley Plaza and tries to save the male victim, unsuccessfully . She impulsively drives back to the lake house, finds Alex's letter and writes back . </P>

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