The Lake 26 years old

A nurse returns to her home town to care for her dying father, and finds everyone she knows there has undergone a bizarre personality change.

Jackie Ivers is a Los Angeles nurse who returns home to the small town of San Vicente to find that her friends and family have taken on bizarrely different personalities. Jackie notices that everyone who goes into the town's lake come out different. As the movie progresses, Jackie first-handedly witnesses what is happening to everyone around her as she is kidnapped by aliens from a parallel world which is the duplicate to Earth but is now polluted and the ozone layer gone. In order to survive, the aliens intend to take over Earth the entrance to the duplicate Earth called the vortex, which are located in major bodies of water, ponds, and lakes.

Credits

The Lake Cast

Name Character
Robert Prosky He was 67, 77 years old when he died as Herb
Anjul Nigam He was 32, now 58 years old as Dr. Sanjay
Haley Joel Osment He was 9, now 36 years old as Dylan Hydecker
Linden Ashby He was 37, now 64 years old as Dr. Jeff Chapman
Susanna Thompson She was 40, now 66 years old as Denise Hydecker
Yasmine Bleeth She was 29, now 56 years old as Jackie Ivers
Matt Beck as Officer Mills
Michael Winters He was 1, now 24 years old as Dr. Braden
Stanley Anderson He was 58, now 85 years old as Steve Ivers
Marc Gomes as Lt. Governor Chandler
Carey Scott He was 32, now 59 years old as The Man
Dewey Weber He was 59, 54 years old when he died as Officer Gary Reed
Marion Ross (physicist) She was 94, 90 years old when she died as Maggie

The Lake Crew

Name Department
Denis Maloney as Director of Photography. Camera
Katie Sparks as Costume Design. Costume & Make-Up
David Jackson as Director. Directing
Don Davis as Original Music Composer. He was 40 (now 67) years old Sound
J.D. Feigelson as Executive Producer. Production
J.D. Feigelson as Writer. Writing
Andrew Gottlieb as Producer. Production
Dennis Hammer as Executive Producer. Production
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The Lake (26 years)

A nurse returns to her home town to care for her dying father, and finds everyone she knows there has undergone a bizarre personality change.

  • Release day: Sunday, February 01, 1998
  • Runtime: 95 minutes