I was so excited when I heard HDTGM was reviewing this movie. For some reason it was a favorite of mine from high school.
I wanted to point out some weird moments that weren't brought up in the episode:
-Kate's mom was way too into that bologna sandwich...I guess it was good?
-Kate was moving out at the beginning of the movie, how did she avoid not talking to Alex (the owner) to arrange to move out?
-How long did Kate even live there? Two years does not give them much time for him to move out, her to move in and out to begin talking to him. Why didn't they just have her live at the lake anyway!
-If Alex knew she was living there next why didn't he wait to meet her at the move in? She knew him as the guy with the Lake house and he knows she likes him. He could've played it cool to develop a relationship with her.
-I'll never understand why he held onto her book when she clearly could send him books.
- When Alex meets up with his brother to say he was in town he mentions he bought a house on a lake. It is learned later that 1) his father deigned that house and 2) his brother was most definitely aware of this house. So why not just say to his brother "hey I bought Dad's old Lake House". The brother goes back and forth on knowledge of this house. First he asks when it was built (before he was born) but then Alex asks him "Do you remember being here with mom?", he says "I remember she tried to make it work." I feel like there are two different movies here, since architecture has no effect on Kate's story.
- If I post a flyer outside unapproved it is taken down within a day, how did Alex's tree manage to last two years with out city planning noticing?
-Nothing incites this magic so I can assume the mailbox has always been magic, so the mailman has been taking these letter away from different years this whole time!
- Lastly my theory is they write out these conversations at the mailbox only to read them out loud as the week passes....But if these letters are written out why do they both have a copy? Does one of them photocopy their letters? Or are they actually telepathic? Anyway their letters are far too conversational for them to keep driving back and forth. Maybe they had an off camera conversation to be in the same place and read their half of the letter out loud.
I hope I made Starlee proud!
