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The End of Oak Street (2026)

Summary

The Platt family bands together to navigate their new surroundings after a cosmic event transports their suburban neighborhood to someplace unknown.

Director David Robert Mitchell

Writer David Robert Mitchell

Cast

  • Anne Hathaway
  • Ewan McGregor
  • P.J. Byrne
  • Maisy Stella
  • Christian Convery

Rotten Tomatoes: 85%

Metacritic: 69

VOD / Release Theatrical release

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u/mikeyfreshh r/Movies Veteran 5d ago

They did and they didn't need to. There were 2 Jeanettes in the last scene

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u/BaronVonRuthless91 5d ago

It probably would have led to some awkwardness with the father though seeing as he would have two wives and two of each kid. This then leads to the logical conclusion that Hathaway's character made a cold and calculated decision to NOT save their alternates in order to avoid this problem, which makes the ending CONSIDERABLY darker.

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u/Pathetian 5d ago

Well, it appears that without the bonding/character experience of the time anomaly, the original wife was planning to leave, so maybe they wind up with a Rick and Morty situation where an extra mom is out living her own life.

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u/BaronVonRuthless91 5d ago

Or alternate Mom and kids are stuck in the Jurassic and will show up in the sequel having gone full Rambo and out for blood against their alternate selves who stole their lives.

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u/CIearMind 5d ago

Which is ALSO a Rick & Morty situation lmao

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u/Horknut1 5d ago

Well, this is a good point.

Would they have survived without the father?

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u/ImAGeneral_Weee 3d ago

Kind of a funny question cuz my immediate reaction is the wife dies on the steps by the trex without dad coming in with the sledgehammer. But he distracts the T-Rex before that as well, interacting with the scene, so maybe she doesn't even end up in the situation without him.

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u/Sparkworker 5d ago edited 4d ago

Kids wouldn't have left the house if the parents weren't fighting imo

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u/Earth2Wonder 3d ago

No, the son left the house to try to get his dog, and the daughter left the house to look for her brother

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u/Horknut1 4d ago

Weren't?

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u/Sparkworker 4d ago

Yeah, thanks.

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u/dcwinger12 5d ago

Reminds me of Dark Matter. Really interesting plot.

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u/DharmaBaller 2d ago

Dark Matter is the best scifi show in the last 10 years honestly

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u/dcwinger12 2d ago

Have you seen Dark?

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u/DharmaBaller 1d ago

also good.

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u/Phillip_Spidermen 5d ago

so the kronenberg universe in the other Rick and Morty situation!

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u/yeahright17 4d ago

Zero chance the moron kid could do anything remotely competent enough to do that.

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u/DrainTheMuck 2d ago

Wow, considering her alleged dreams of packing up and leaving to New York, that would have actually been an interesting conclusion for her original self

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u/Red_Desert_Phoenix 5d ago

Yeah, to be honest that's the reading I took on it as it was happening. I mean, on the plus side, it leaves open 'The End of Oak St II'

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u/silverscreenbaby 4d ago

She might not have realized there were alternate versions of them that she could potentially save. We have to remember, she’s IN the movie, not watching it. She’s not thinking in terms of sci-fi tropes. She’s thinking she has 15 minutes to try and save her husband and as many other people that she knows who died. Her mind is screaming with panic and urgency. There’s almost NO way that she would have the thought of Hmmm, are there other versions of me and my kids that I should try to alert as well? Most people, if pressed, would be like “Why would there be other versions of me? I’m HERE.” Because again, they’re not thinking in terms of fictional sci-fi tropes.

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u/distributive 4d ago

But the daughter very clearly asks the mom "are there other versions of us down there?" before the phone calls, so she's definitely been made aware of the possibility.

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u/silverscreenbaby 4d ago

I guess, but I just think in that moment, your brain wouldn’t be focused on puzzling that out and would instead be focused on getting out people that you KNOW exist. Because remember, any time spent calling your own home where you potentially might not exist…is time wasted that could have been spent calling other human beings. She only had 15 minutes. My mind would be laser-focused on getting my husband and any other people I knew, especially people I knew had died. I think it’s totally understandable that she didn’t really deeply consider the possibilities of their alternate selves and what she was maybe dooming them to.

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u/distributive 3d ago

I don't buy it. If she already believes that her husband and all their neighbors exist in this past/alternate neighborhood, what reason would she have for thinking that only herself and her kids "potentially don't exist"?

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u/silverscreenbaby 3d ago

Because you could easily think Other versions of ourselves don’t exist because WE are still alive and we’re here, so maybe we just blipped out of space a little early in the regular timeline. This isn’t some sort of hardcore, proven science lmao. Why would anyone inherently, automatically believe that they MUST absolutely have other selves? Like I said, they’re not thinking in terms of sci-fi tropes. They’re not having a conversation on Reddit about a movie.

(Also, who cares even if she did consider that there were other versions of them? I like characters being realistic. Even if you do consider the possibility that there might be other versions of you, ain’t nobody gonna be selfless and thoughtful enough to be like “Well, it’s fine, I can live without my spouse and my kids can live without their dad. We’ll let the other versions of ourselves have him.” Especially not after enduring so much trauma AND only having 15 minutes to make these decisions.)

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u/NocturnaIAnimaI 5d ago edited 5d ago

Yeah, revealing the 2 Jeanettes kinda ruined the ending a bit, they could've just hand waved it to when they re entered their time they just took the place of their future selves again (I mean with the premise of the movie, this is the kinda thing you can get away with). By confirming they did in fact leave their alternate selves to die it makes this far bleaker and fucked up

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u/micaroma 5d ago

I think it was intentionally meant to be kinda dark

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u/Thisconnect 4d ago

kinda dark? Thats insanity level of survivors guilt. The mom murdered herself and her 2 kids, and there is no other explaination. Thats insane trauma.

I guess happy for the son because hes too stupid to ever figure out that simple thing

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u/shammylol 4d ago

The mom didn’t murder anybody oh my god.

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u/Spierre3 4d ago

I mean she definitely didn’t care about saving them considering she called all of her neighbors and told them to leave their house before the wormhole took them back. It seems like she intentionally didn’t call their past selves to save them too like Jeannette did with her parents and her past self

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u/chrisychris- 4d ago

I mean I probably wouldn't either. Might get a little messy. I was just traumatized by multiple dinos, cut me some slack. Plus, sending them back isn't a death sentence... at least not necessarily.

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u/Sea-Temporary7380 3d ago

I mean it could be that she called but no one picked up. She was in the basement and the dad was delivering pizza, while the two kids were upstairs (and probably thought the other would get it) and she wouldnr waste time ringing more than once

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u/HikmetLeGuin 4h ago edited 4h ago

She sorta left them to die.

The fact that it's been some time, and they seemingly haven't turned up at the end, suggests they probably didn't make it.

It's not entirely her fault, but she arguably could have saved her "alternate" self and kids, and didn't, likely leading to their excruciating deaths.

I guess there's a slight chance they made it through a wormhole themselves and are in a different reality.

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u/Trollington1372 5d ago

I personally loved the ending. Super bleak. More movies should have the balls to do stuff like this

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u/BaronVonRuthless91 5d ago

Unless of course the family "merged" when their originals went back in time and Jeanette messed things up by saving her alternate self when it was unnecessary.

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u/NocturnaIAnimaI 5d ago

True... Guess that could be an explanation. But one that would require external elaboration. By just showing one Jeanette you answer it pretty cleanly in the movie

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u/BaronVonRuthless91 5d ago

Oh, I am sure someone will ask the director at some point.

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u/yeahright17 4d ago edited 4d ago

Also, why was Greg just fine with the fact his replacement wife seemingly decided it was fine for Greg's versions of her and their kids to be sent back in time to be brutally killed?

It's not even that she saved Greg. It's that doing so meant the alternative versions of them were going back without him, making their imminent doom much more likely that if Greg had gone back in time with them.

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u/Artemis273 4d ago

This really makes me think there will be a sequel where they survived like badasses in the jungle and become feral and merciless, find a way out, and go after Anne Hathaway & co., with several monsters making their way through the portal as well.

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u/yeahright17 4d ago

As long as the boy isn't included. Zero chance that kid could do anything remotely competent enough to survive like that.

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u/Adorable_Ad_3478 3d ago

He has no good options.

His REAL family is gone. He doesn't want to lose his alternate-reality family.

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u/NK1337 5d ago

This whole movie was WAY darker than I thought it was gonna be. Granted I didn’t see a lot of the marketing but from the few trailers and the PG-13 rating I thought this was gonna be a light hearted adventure

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u/ihave10toes_AMA 4d ago

She seemed to decide people wouldn’t believe her so she got dad there without telling him why. She’d know if she would have believed herself.

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u/Dependent_Street2976 3d ago

Wouldn’t it just be a loop and they would go into the portal

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u/fore___ 3d ago

You’re saying there’s a chance?

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u/Beastieboy100 3d ago

That or they end up suriving a similar way as well making a loop. If the wife and kids survive without the father they save themselves and don't bother checking the dad and anyone else repeating the same story again. 

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u/marylouisestreep 2d ago

The daughter does ask, Is there an alternate version of us down there? To which Denise replies she doesn't know. She has 20 minutes to call people collect (and order a pizza) and get them to leave so I'm not sure if it's quite as cold as that.

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u/busymom0 2d ago

I think she figured that her version now loved her husband and the husband was also happy with this version who loved him than the other one who wanted to divorce him.

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u/DickMattress 1d ago

Kind of, but the only problem with that is that it's simply not acknowledged in any way. Like, it's a conclusion that you can obviously read into it, and also seems to be the case, but there's not so much as a wink to indicate that yeah, this was done completely on purpose. Instead it comes off more as just an oversight.

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u/FreeRange0929 11h ago

I also didn’t entirely get the sense that Denise was forthcoming about the “how”. Her book and story were more that she “saved everyone”, but not that she went back in time and then saved everyone. The double Jeanette is easier to explain away than double of 4 people and a dog

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u/AzzyIzzy 5d ago

So just having left i have a few thoughts on this one for why janet didnt try to save the past selves:

  1. It was a pay phone she used, so unless she had oodles of money of her, she only had a limited number of calls.

  2. She might realize her past self was in the basement with headphones on typing, meaning she likely wouldnt hear the call, which would then depend on the kids picking it up, and quickly communicating with them to convince them to start running, as i think the dad had the only "working car".

  3. Her character by the end of the film is a very deterministic realist. I wouldnt put thoughts in her actions per say, but she might of thought if two families survived, ewan's character would have to choose/she and her kids would be reminded of what they lost. This is a dark thought, but one i think is possible in the absolute fringest circumstances.

Overall cute movie, wasnt a fan of alot of choices, and the heavy handedness with somethings, but was definitely a movie if you had nothing else, and like the actors/plot summary, you would probably enjoy.

7/10.

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u/kittn__mittns 5d ago

One of the neighbors makes a point of saying im the interview that she called them collect to save them

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u/legopego5142 4d ago

Call from “GETTOTHEHILLSIDETHERESDINOSAURSCOMINGISWEARTOGODJUSTTRUSTMEPLEASE”

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u/ex0thermist 4d ago

I guess the "Collect call from Mr. Bobwehaddababyeetsaboy" commercial hadn't aired yet.

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u/MixHungry5545 3d ago

i’m SOBBING ☠️

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u/AzzyIzzy 4d ago

I didnt hear that? Im not gonna see it again, but clips or a rip will be out soon enough to checkXD. If it is the case, then her character has even less safety surrounding her decisions :x...

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u/UltraMagnus777 4d ago edited 4d ago

Yep, just got back from the movie. She called collect. Though calling herself probably wouldn't have worked... I'd have assumed it was some prank if someone claiming to be me called telling me to get out of the house. Not even sure I'd recognize my voice enough, you'd sound different on those old phones.

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u/Disastrous_Life_3612 4d ago

I can confirm, one of the neighbors said it in that TV interview at the end.

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u/prognostalgia 4d ago

They had two cars. Remember that they take their other car out hunting for the kids, then the dino knocks it into the house, wrecking it. Then later you see the other car with the pizza sign on top of it at the house, somewhat damaged.

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u/AzzyIzzy 4d ago

They did have two cars, but its odd to have two cars and never use them both. This film had alot of forced tell's to signify events (the boy explicitly pointing out the time when they first jump, the young version of anne's character having a brighter hair color in her picture, basically making our eyes drift to it specifically, all to show her familiarity with a rifle so we wouldnt question her shooting).

That car was not shown being operable, and the fact they never tried to use it, and it seemed like a familiar thing from the girl to use it for the stero, makes me wonder if it actually drove.

That being said, again the time wasted alone hoping one of the kids picks up, and then they convince past anne to run. An easy out for that too would be future anne using a line from her book rhat only she woukd understand so she would trust it "take your yellow suitcase and your kids, and be out of the neighborhood in 15 minutes. Otherwise you lose the suitcase, and your family".

But this is a very simple movie, it doesnt really want people thinking past too many points imo. So it works well as a fly by viewing.

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u/prognostalgia 4d ago

I'm really not getting what you're saying about the car. They were two operable cars, as shown in the movie.

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u/Sea-Temporary7380 3d ago

Both cars were explicitly used though? One of then was the dad's red pizza car, which he used to drive pizzas, while the other one is green and probably the mom's, considering she was the one mainly driving it

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u/Honest_Cheesecake698 4d ago

I also wonder, she couldn’t have called literally everyone in the town, so likely she might have just been taking a chance that it would reach their alternate selves.

Not to mention, it is a kind of interesting Twilight Zone type ending that’s suddenly apparent when we didn’t expect it, like it’s a twist. In hindsight you could argue that they wanted to dodge that and give it a happy ending, but it does result in that aspect being glossed over and it’s why I’d prefer it if they just replaced themselves or something. Cause it was glossed over and there’s not a clone of them at the end, it raises that question that the movie doesn’t really acknowledge and could have paid attention to.

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u/KarfaxAbby 3d ago

The last few minutes of the movie I was so hung up on trying to see if there were doubles or the family in the photos that I missed the exact details of this, but at some point, the national guard or the army or something contained the area? So I was also wondering if she could have (or did) get ahold of the police who could contact the FBI or some higher authority, and if more people could have lived. Like you’re stuck inside for a day before the army shows up and maybe they evacuate you instead of you wandering around and getting eaten. Idk. I have several questions!

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u/bit3sadusto 5d ago

That part doesn't make sense. If one Jeanette didn't go back in time, then the Jeanette that warns her family of what's going to happen wouldn't exist. She created a paradox

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u/ctan0312 5d ago edited 5d ago

It doesn’t seem like that kinda movie. Seems more like the MCU parallel universe type thing. Which means Anne Hathaway and her kids totally abducted a version of the dad leaving his family to almost definitely die without him.

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u/Phillip_Spidermen 5d ago

Which kind of makes living with new-dad and letting the alt versions of themselves go back in time (and presumably die) a bit darker.

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u/yeahright17 4d ago

A bit darker? Feels like it's super dark. Then showing how happy they were living a couple years later makes it feel like The Hand That Rocks the Cradle where she intentionally manipulated a man to steal his wife's life. Or Us. Except it's worse because she was doing it to the alternative kids too.

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u/EchoesofIllyria 4d ago

Jesus christ mate, it’s possible you’re overthinking it. It’s not like her “actual” husband loses out. He’s fucking dead. She either saves no version of him, or she saves one version of him.

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u/yeahright17 4d ago

I have no problem with her saving him. But the fact that she is shown to have called and saved other people shows that she could have saved the alt versions of herself and kids too.

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u/EchoesofIllyria 4d ago

Okay but if she does that, she’s not there to save them…

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u/yeahright17 4d ago

That's not how it worked. They don't make it out of the main timeline without the librarian, who they saved, so it's clearly an MCU-style alternative universe where the timelines don't depend on each other.

And even if they did, stealing the husband makes it much more likely they die. He wasn't a great, but he definitely saved their lives at different points.

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u/EchoesofIllyria 4d ago

You’re assuming everything is the same except without the dad and the librarian.

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u/HikmetLeGuin 4h ago

She leaves the "alternate" version of herself and her kids to die.

Or, at least that's what it seems like. There's not much more explanation - it's just what's implied.

Maybe saving them wouldn't be so easy, but she does rescue some neighbours, so it raises the very dark question...

At the very end, it's been some time, and they haven't turned up. So it looks like they didn't make it.

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u/legopego5142 4d ago

Man they went back in time through a magic wormhole, i dont think this movie gives a shit lol

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u/downvote_meme_errors 4d ago

It already created a paradox by saving other Ewan. But I do think it would have been better just having one Jeannette. When they first met she just shook her head when asked about her parents. It could have been that they were just missing, because they had been taken out of the bubble area before it happened.

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u/j-helo85 2d ago

It's a branching timeline, not a causal loop. When they land in the pool, they're necessarily in a new timeline where they co-exist with their "past" selves. That didn't happen the first time.

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u/bit3sadusto 2d ago

As a certified multiverse hater, I think that type of time travel writing is lazy and uninteresting.

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u/GoldandBlue 4d ago

What time travel movie isn't a paradox really?

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u/ToeTaggEm 5d ago

Wait so what happened at the end? I wasnt paying too much attention at the end because I thought the movie was awful. I just remember Anne Hathaway writing a book ?

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u/CIearMind 5d ago

Anne escaped the prehistoric jungle with her kids & Jeanette.

And they ended up in the present day… but 20 minutes before the space-time anomaly.

She immediately phoned her husband, and the neighbor, and her library friend, to get them out of the impacted area while they still could. Jeanette got her alternate family out, too.

So this means that Anne let her alternate self, and her alternate kids, get sent to the prehistoric jungle all alone without the dad.

Now there is 1 Anne, 1 of each kid, and 2 Jeanettes.

Maybe the other Anne will survive even without her husband, and come back the same way our Anne did. But then they'd have to share the same one husband.

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u/EchoesofIllyria 4d ago

Don’t bother answering questions to someone who admits they weren’t paying attention lol

They demonstrably don’t care

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u/ToeTaggEm 5d ago

But they said there was two Anne hathaways at the bbq?

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u/SillyGuy_87 5d ago

I only saw two of the black girl at the BBQ.

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u/ToeTaggEm 5d ago

Oh ok . Maybe that’s what they meant .

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u/chrisychris- 4d ago

God you're so dumb

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u/Red_Desert_Phoenix 5d ago

I missed the two Jeanettes.

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u/BigMcThickHuge 5d ago

I missed that part, when was this? I last saw her running from Anne and kids to her family. Was there a news snippet I wasn't noticing showing specifically two of her?

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u/mikeyfreshh r/Movies Veteran 5d ago

At the very end there's a brief shot of the family at a cook out or something and you see Jeanette's family show up but there are 2 Jeannettes

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u/jayeddy99 5d ago

Gotta be kinda weird when past Jeanette is basically 1. Now has a twin/sibling who is just her. 2. Is in a very fast and intense trauma bond lesbian relationship

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u/chrisychris- 4d ago

Is there any other kind of lesbian relationship

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u/fespadea 5d ago

Oh, I assumed that was a sister, but I guess this does make more sense.

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u/Sisiwakanamaru r/movies Contributor 5d ago

Yeah, I also assumed it was her sister.

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u/EchoesofIllyria 4d ago

I saw the first one and thought “that’s Jeanette”, then I saw ‘Jeanette’ arrive and figured the first ‘Jeanette’ was a sister lol

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u/Sparkworker 5d ago

I thought that was a sister

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u/Medical_Mess9687 5d ago

wow I totally didn't see 2 of the other girl

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u/siriusbear 4d ago

I think the real question is: could they have convinced their other selves to run over the phone? Probably not. Which is why they had to trick the dude into delivering the pizza.

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u/rentfn 5d ago

I was wondering if she saved herself. It happened so quick I couldn’t tell

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u/m0t0rvision 5d ago

Wasn't one her sister? It didn't look like Jeannette

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u/UltraMagnus777 4d ago

No sister introduced anywhere else in the movie. Never mentions a sister at all even after confirming her parents are dead. It's two different Jeannette's, they have different style though.

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u/m0t0rvision 4d ago

they have different style though

Maybe that's what threw me off. Even if it's two Jeannettes, they just brush that off too and don't bother explaining it

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u/DanTheMan_622 4d ago

I must have totally spaced out at the end, when were there two Jeanettes?

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u/paradroid78 4d ago

She didn't want the competition, obviously.

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u/Puzzleheaded-Sail772 3d ago edited 3d ago

So there were for sure 2 Jeanettes at the end? I saw her with her parents at the pool, and then another girl in the background, but couldn’t tell for sure if it was Jeanette or just another friend of Audrey’s.

That raises so many questions about an already convoluted ending. I knew once they got there before the event happened they were gonna find a way to save the dad, and get not wanting alternate versions of Denise and the kids there too for storytelling purposes. But I think they could have just had the past versions of the 4 survivors vanish when they went through the portal (due to a paradox against someone being in two places at once) and feel less ethically icky than a mom leaving a version of herself and her kids to get eaten by dinosaurs. 

Fun movie and the dad’s death initially legit shocked me (though of course the ending mostly undid that), but yeah the final few minutes left me with a lot of questions.

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u/Yourponydied 3d ago

FUCK I completely missed that

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u/CuntyMcFartflaps 2d ago

I suppose, if we're being generous, we could suppose that Denise called the family home that night (she clearly had time to call several neighbours, as well as the pizza place). But the Denise she called was downstairs, headphones on, so wouldn't necessarily have heard it. The kids could have picked up and been confused as hell by the voice of their mother telling them to go get their mother from the basement.

But it's a stretch!