It’s been a really long time since Sandra Bullock came onscreen, with the last one being Miss Congeniality 2. I don’t remember catching that movie. However, this one is a must watch. She still looks just as good, despite her age.

When I first caught the trailer for the movie, I immideately decided on the spot that I will catch this show, no matter what. I didn’t even know that it was a remake of the Korea movie “Il Mare”. It didn’t bother me anyway, remake or otherwise.

It’s an interesting story line, about a Lakehouse with a mailbox which strangely happens to be in two different timezones at the same instance. Without which, the story wouldn’t have been possible anyway. What initially began as a routine message left in a mailbox by Kate (Sandra’s character) to the new owner to forward all mails gets picked up by Alex (Keanu’s character). The only difference is that Alex happened to be living two years ago.

It only came to light when Kate, having suffered stress at work decided to take a drive out to clear her mind and calm her nerves. She decided to revisit the Lakehouse, which she left. There, she discovers that the “new owners” of the house has received the message and left her his reply.

Soon enough, they both began to exchange messages through the mailbox / portal through time and started a relationship of sorts. Naturally, they tried all means and ways possible to meet-up, but with a 2 year gap inbetween them, anything can happen.

The twist to the show came right at the end, which explains how it all started. Still, it’s a wonder to me that since the reason for Kate’s initial stress at work was somehow adverted, there wasn’t any reason for her to go back to the Lakehouse, and thus, no exchanging of messages? But of course, if that were to happen, there wouldn’t be any story, wouldn’t there.

Oh, and interestingly enough, the “theme song”, Somewhere Only We Know by Keane, which happened to be featured in the trailer, was somehow left out of the movie.