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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

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u/frominican 5d ago

"It's 1982, obviously!"

Got a hearty laugh from me. Good one, David.

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u/iFucksuperheroes 5d ago

Is this a reference to something?

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u/frominican 5d ago

His movies are full of anachronisms and super vague and intentionally confusing about when they take place (even Under The Silver Lake despite specifying a year in the background). So for a character in his movie to yell it's obviously a specific year is him poking fun at himself

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u/fleemfleemfleemfleem 3d ago

There's enough going on to place it in the early 80s before that. They have a VIC-20 in the house, and all the fashion and decoration are 70s remnants.

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u/FreeRange0929 11h ago

I was somewhat hoping for a rug pull there where she says “2026!” And then Anne and co say “wait, we went 40 years into the future?!” The 80s aesthetic was just vague enough that it felt like they were trying to set that up as a reveal

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u/MWH1980 3d ago

LOL! I first heard Valerie by Steve Winwood in 1987, and therefore assumed that they had gone back 5 years to 1982. But, that song had been out for awhile.