''The Lake'' is a 1998 made-for-TV,

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movie starring

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Plot

Jackie Ivers (Bleeth) is a

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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 people from a parallel world. The other world is a duplicate of

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but is now polluted and its

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gone. In order to survive, the duplicates intend to take over Earth. The entrances to the duplicate Earth are called the vortex, which are located in major bodies of water, ponds, and lakes.

Cast

as Jackie Ivers * Linden Ashby as Dr. Jeff Chapman *

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as Dylan Hydecker * Susanna Thompson as Denise Hydecker *

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as Steve Ivers *

Caroline Lagerfelt Caroline Eugenie Lagerfelt (born September 23, 1947) is a Paris-born American actress, long based in the United States, recognized for her roles on ''Sweet Magnolias'', ''Gossip Girl'', '' Six Degrees', Dirty Sexy Money', Nash Bridges'' and ' ...

as Mayor Louise Terry *Monique Edwards as Young Nurse * Robert Prosky as Herb * Marion Ross as Maggie

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* 1998 films 1998 horror films 1998 television films 1990s science fiction horror films American science fiction horror films Films scored by Don Davis (composer) Films set in California NBC network original films Films about parallel universes 1990s American films {{sf-horror-film-stub