This is a movie that really missed the point. It's about a very sophisiticated letterbox that allows the owner to send correspondence exactly two years into the future or past. The title of the movie itself sums up the margin by which this movie misses the point. What about the Lakehouse??? Aren't we talking about a magic letterbox here?
Not only did this movie fail to explore the possibilities of this unique magic letterbox scenario (lotto numbers, stock market data etc) but it mianders off regularly into irrelevant, sickening and unimaginitive details of the lives of two insipid actors (Sandra and Keanu) - which are at best uncompelling.
In the end the magic letterbox saves Keanu's life, despite all it's potential for good and profit, and the story wanders off on another tangent about how this makes Sandra feel. Letterbox be gone... all you need is love and slobber.
I feel "The Letterbox" had great potential, but award "The Lakehouse" an Absolute Rating of 8 out of 10... where 10 is "Absolutely Despised The Retard Movie". Still I would be interested to see where a different director could take an appropriately titled sequel "The Letterbox 2"... who was it that directed "Big?"
