The Lake House [SOUNDTRACK]

Rachel Portman

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 20, 2006)
• Original Release Date: June 16, 2006
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Label: Lakeshore Records
• ASIN: B000FS2WJO
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (30 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #13,080 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com
The first five tracks on the soundtrack to this Sandra Bullock/Keanu Reeves romantic drama are wonderfully wistful songs. The first, Paul McCartney's "This Never Happened Before" from his 2005 album Chaos and Creation in the Backyard, sets the tone. The low-key mood is then picked up by new romantic souls like the Clientele (the languidly forlorn "(I Can't Seem to) Make You Mine") and Eels (the fiddle-accented ballad "Ant Farm"), and classic songwriters Nick Drake (with 1969's "Time Has Told Me") and Carole King (1971's "It's Too Late"). The rest of the album is made up of Rachel Portman's intimately romantic score. Portman makes good use of melody lines driven sometimes by a piano ("Mailbox") and sometimes an acoustic guitar ("Tell Me More"), while also ensuring that the orchestra never threatens to overwhelm them. And when strings dominate, they never feel rote ("Sunsets"). The music isn't in-your-face sad but tinged with a sense of very adult melancholy. Whoever thought that one day we'd say that of something attached to a Keanu Reeves movie? --Elisabeth Vincentelli

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

53 of 57 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Lake House, June 20, 2006

By	Jordan "Jordan" (Kentucky) - See all my reviews

The Lake House has a wonderful score and wonderful music. It seems that every movie Sandra Bullock is in... it has an awesome soundtrack. The score is just "sit down and relax" type of score, having piano with strings. This would fit perfectly in your collection of CD's. Take a nice nap as you listen to this relaxing and beautiful music. Highly recommended! Just wish that some of the music that was on the movie, but wasn't on the soundtrack, were on the soundtrack. Big disappointment...

1. This Never Happened Before - Paul McCartney 4/5
2. (I Can't Seem To) Make You Mine - The Clientele 4/5
3. Time Has Told Me - Nick Drake 4/5
4. Ant Farm - Eels 4/5
5. It's Too Late - Carole King 4/5
6. The Lakehouse - Rachel Portman 5/5
7. Pawprints - Rachel Portman 5/5
8. Tough Week - Rachel Portman 4/5
9. Mailbox - Rachel Portman 5/5
10. Sunsets - Rachel Portman 4/5
11. Alex's Father - Rachel Portman 4/5
12. Il Mare - Rachel Portman 5/5
13. Tell Me More - Rachel Portman 4/5
14. She's Gone - Rachel Portman 5/5
15. Wait For Me - Rachel Portman 4/5
16. You Waited - Rachel Portman 4/5
17. I Waited - Rachel Portman 5/5

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Rachael Portman Knows what she is doing and she is doing it great! Hope you enjoy!

Jordan
Overall grade* A-

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A wonderful way to relive the movie!, January 16, 2007

By	Wayne C. Rogers (Las Vegas, Nevada United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is a short review to say just how much I'm enjoying the motion picture soundtrack to The Lake House. Though I now seem to be watching the DVD of The Lake House at least once every week, I'm listening to the musical soundtrack everyday. I wish Rosemary Clooney's song, There Will Never Be Another You, was on the CD, as well as the instrumental music that was played when Alex plants the tree in from of Kate's future apartment complex in Chicago. Still, this is a great CD with music that brings back the most wonderful memories of the movie. In my opinion, this is what movie music is supposed to do. A really good soundtrack has to be able to stand on its own, and The Lake House does with flying colors. If you enjoyed the film, then you'll love having the CD to listen to.

14 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect Album to Remember the Film, July 9, 2006

By	wunderlost "wunderlost" (silverlake, ca - usa) - See all my reviews

ALL the best songs from the film are on this album PLUS the complete score by Rachel Portman know for stunning scores on others films such as CHOCOLATE'. How can you go wrong with Paul McCartney, Carole King and Nick Drake? Plus the amazing opening title song by The Clientelle!

Although the two Rosemary Clooney songs are abset from this collection, they are not the from key emotional scenes in the film in the same way the above mentioned songs are.

McCartney's tune does double duty in the film and as end titles. Carole King is played during one of the most important scenes in the entire movie. Nick Drake is absolutely moving and The Clientelle set the mood during the opening titles with perfect form. 5 STARS, BRAVO!