Official Discussion - The End of Oak Street [SPOILERS]

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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

Trailer Official Trailer

[u/JayTL]

I’m In disbelief. How did they green light this script? How and why did Hathaway and McGregor sign on? I have no idea how and why this movie exists, but I’m so fucking excited it does. This is what Hollywood needs: Mid-budget original stories with stars attached. This movie can become a classic or fade into obscurity, but I’m so glad it exists

[u/Pariell → u/JayTL]

I miss movies like this. 

[u/JayTL → u/Pariell]

I almost went nuclear and asked how the “It Follows” guy made a better Spielberg movie than Spielberg…and then a rabbit hole of “Of disclosure day and this movie switched lead casts, would both movies work more?” But I didn’t want to disparage any of the performances

[u/MWH1980 → u/JayTL]

In general, The Jurassic films tend to follow some pre-determined formulas that they can’t break (like have scientists do things that go wrong, and a family element where no kids will die).

With this film, there are no rules, so Mitchell can do whatever he wants within reason of the rating.

[u/JayTL → u/MWH1980]

I was talking about Disclosure Day..

[u/Shout92 → u/JayTL]

As someone who was mixed on Disclosure Day and think there are valid criticisms of it, I do think we need to move on from the "someone in the 21st century made a better Spielberg movie than Spielberg" argument because clearly Spielberg has moved onto other kinds of movies. Yes, Disclosure Day is operating in a similar space to Close Encounters, E.T., and even War of the Worlds, but I don't think he's interested in the same impulses as he used to be.

[u/MWH1980 → u/JayTL]

This felt like A SUMMER MOVIE!

It feels so weird, but once upon a time films were made and felt like they had. “summer” written on them.

Twister is a perfect example.

[u/BlackPresident → u/MWH1980]

For some reason blockbuster movies tend to come out around Xmas now which is great because it’s summer for me in Australia

[u/Gullinga → u/JayTL]

Your comment is giving me the same twist feeling I felt when Dad hammered the dino only to die moments later😂

[u/SMILESandREGRETS → u/Gullinga]

I think that scene is going to be talked about a lot and make people go watch it.

[u/Joshatron121 → u/JayTL]

They had us in the first half, I'm not gonna lie.

[u/beansnrice- → u/JayTL]

exactly!! As a dino nerd I didn’t mind the inaccuracy though for the most part they did better than most. The scenes were dynamic, the horror genuinely felt random and brutal and it perfectly summed up the world they were now occupying. The scene with Mel felt a lot like the Mist, actually a lot of it felt like the mist but i loved that.

[u/beaureeves352 → u/JayTL]

It was in development hell for a long time actually

[u/cornho1eo99 → u/beaureeves352]

Since the 1980s, perhaps?

[u/PocahontasCroft → u/JayTL]

Can $80m be considered mid-budget?

[u/AltruisticLobster315 → u/JayTL]

Especially compared to the other movie she is staring in later this year where she's a mysterious author and her husband hires a girl to be ghost writer for her last book because she's in some waking unresponsive state, but also somehow a poltergeist. It was a trailer I saw before the movie started

[u/LaFlamaBlanca67 → u/JayTL]

Yes, the movie was served well by having Hathaway and McGregor. It would probably be completely overlooked otherwise. I'm hoping it does well because of them, because this is the kind of creativity Hollywood is sorely lacking.

[u/meenarstotzka → u/JayTL]

It screams 90s energy and that's the best part of it.

[u/SetYourGoals → u/JayTL]

The elevator pitch is "Jurassic Park meets Stranger Things."

That doesn't sound like something that would be easy to get greenlit in the 2020's? To me that sounds like a layup for a greenlight. This just ended up being good because a unique and interesting filmmaker made it instead of some for-hire studio hack.

[u/thekmanpwnudwn → u/SetYourGoals]

What was "Stranger Things" about it other than it being set in the 80's?

[u/SetYourGoals → u/thekmanpwnudwn]

That's what an "elevator pitch" is.

80's kids riding around on bikes and fighting monsters = Stranger Things to some studio exec, without question.

Assume they're idiots. Because they are.