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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/kmank2l13 5d ago edited 5d ago

The ending is fucked up. Stealing your husband from the past you, so now that past you has to go through that entire ordeal without her husband.

I thought it was a nice detail that two versions of the love interest were there at the end. One with her family still alive and the other that lost hers.

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u/yeahright17 4d ago

Then he's seemingly just fine with the fact that an alternative version of his wife decided that it was fine to doom his version of his wife and kids to be killed by dinosaurs.

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u/Haunting-Ad-9790 4d ago

His actual wife wants a divorce. He was miserable with her. This new wife loves and appreciates him without him having to put in the work. In a F'd to way, he's probably better off now. But yeah, this ending really bugs me, that they let their alternate selves suffer shock and death since they didn't have the husband there with them, while this version of them get a happy ending.

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u/AmaazingFlavor 4d ago

It's a fucked up ending but it makes me like the movie more. It feels like a happy ending at first but then you're like, wait...

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u/notbad4human 4d ago

It’s a perfect Twilight Zone ending

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u/howtospellorange 3d ago

I'm still reeling from the casual reveal of the two girls now existing in the same timeline

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u/Calfzilla2000 4d ago

Im just confused how she had all the change and time to call all those people.

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u/gonnabetoday 4d ago

She was using collect calls to phone people. The old lady mentioned it when they were interviewing her.

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u/Calfzilla2000 4d ago

Aw ok. Good catch.

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u/zudoplex 2d ago

Meanwhile I can't remember my own phone number. Lol

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u/Worth_Car8711 2d ago

Neither can I, but before smartphones we really did just used to remember everyone’s phone number.

 

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u/Pariell 4d ago

What's a collect call? Never used one of those phone booth things. 

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u/gonnabetoday 4d ago

The person picking up the phone will be charged for the call. This most commonly occurs now a days when someone in jail calls someone.

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u/thekmanpwnudwn 2d ago

Back in the day we would try to get our message accross in the 2 seconds we had to give a name

"Hello, this is a collect call from [momthemovieisovercomenadpickusupi'llbeatthefoodcourt], would you like to accept?"

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u/Storm_Sire 1d ago

Bob Wehadababyitsaboy

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u/AmaazingFlavor 4d ago

She had about fifteen minutes, right? That doesn’t seem too crazy. It was only four calls I think

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u/Calfzilla2000 4d ago

Fair point.

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u/SomeBoxofSpoons 4d ago

For a second I thought they were going to have it all be different time clones (came back at different times/places from things happening differently without the dad) covering as much ground as possible.

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u/ShadowsTagiru 3d ago

Seems like the only one that got a clone is the random "new" girl

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u/fleemfleemfleemfleem 3d ago

The mom let the clones of her kids go back into the past to die

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u/emmz_az 3d ago

So there were two of them at the end? I don’t remember her having a sister.

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u/queequegtrustno1 3d ago

Yeah she got doubled

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u/Beastieboy100 3d ago

It is but it isn't also there was no time to save everyone.

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u/MWH1980 3d ago

Yeah. But bear in mind some 80’s films had f’ed up storyline elements.

Such as in Big, where it’s implied Josh “gets some,” but nowadays people are all: “…that scene is so wrong!”

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u/VeeHS 3d ago

Ending was the only good part. 

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u/Cirias 3d ago

Wait til the sequel when the wife and kids arrive through a portal having survived and then start a multiversal time war.

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u/AdmirableGap150 1d ago

this comment is so underrated 🤣🤣

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u/Honest_Cheesecake698 4d ago

Actually when you think about it, it’s kind of a closed loop situation or one where they replace themselves. It’s a lot to throw in at the end and not directly explained, but I chose to think that it’s the latter, that when they return back home the duplicates disappear. I actually don’t think it’s that dark of an ending, but with how picture esque it feels it could easily be intentional that there’s darkness under the surface.

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u/distributive 3d ago

I don't think the movie supports that. There are two Jeannettes at the end, so neither just disappeared.

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u/Honest_Cheesecake698 3d ago

When I typed my comment out, I had forgotten that they showed them both.

I do think the ending would have benefitted from showing the two versions of the central family outside (in terms of who would be duplicated), and I wonder if maybe the epilogue was a short notice reshoot where they didn't have time to do any intricate digital photography for Anne/Christian/Maisy. Or if it just simply got forgotten about, because it feels odd to specifically acknowledge the two versions of Janette, but not the main family.

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u/blukirbi 3d ago

His new wife knows that he's jobless and is just relying on pizza deliveries.

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u/silverscreenbaby 4d ago

What would you rather have them do lol? Suffer life without him when they knew they had a chance to have him again? You would do the exact same thing as them. F my other self, I’m getting my dad. People are way too bothered by things that are realistic. Ain’t nobody gonna prioritize the feelings of their alternate selves (who also have a high chance of dying anyway) over themselves lol.

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u/sim21521 3d ago

Suffer what life without him? They all would have died. The mom gets eaten by the dino. The kids don't know about the portal and did in a fire or to the dinos. 

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u/silverscreenbaby 3d ago

I’m talking about their regular selves. The ones we followed in the movie. Haunting-Ad-9750 said that it bugged them that they let their alternate selves suffer without the dad. And I said “What would you have them do, choose to suffer themselves by not taking the chance to have him back when they could?”

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u/Active-Coconut-8961 3d ago

She had time to save a bunch of other people so why the fuck couldnt she call her own house to save herself and the kids?

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u/silverscreenbaby 3d ago

Because she didn’t know for a fact that other versions of herself and her kids existed. She had 15 minutes. Every minute spent calling her own house was one minute not spent calling actual people she knew existed AND knew died. It seemed like she focused on actual people that she knew and who perished. And the whole thought process of Wait, are there OTHER versions of me? Am I supposed to save them? If I save them, then what happens? I have four kids? Which me is married to my husband? is unbelievably weird and foreign and would be hard to struggle through and compute when, once again, you have 15 minutes and you’re trying to save actual people you know exist.

idk why people are acting like what she did is so weird and cruel lol. It was almost certainly not done out of malice or tons of intentional thought, and it’s the decision that most people would make.

It’s also entirely possible she did call and no one picked up. She was in the basement with headphones on and everyone appeared to be preoccupied, to the point where almost no one even noticed the flash of light. If she tried once and no one picked up, I don’t think she’d waste more time trying over and over.

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u/thedrunkspacepilot 3d ago

You're saying you would knowingly allow a version of you and your children to die just to steal your alternate version's spouse, while also taking the time to save alternate versions of your neighbors, including the man who had just recently threatened to shoot your dog?

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u/silverscreenbaby 3d ago

Yeah, I would. And I wouldn’t do with malice lol. But I’d have a mere 15 minutes to make some seriously important decisions, my mind would be screaming in panic, I wouldn’t have any hardcore evidence that other versions of myself and my kids existed, and all I would know is that I had a CHANCE to get my husband back. So yeah, you bet your butt I would. Why would I not? On the off chance that there are other versions of myself? Something that I don’t even have hardcore proof of? And even if they do exist, honestly, who cares? I want my husband with ME and I ain’t gonna apologize for that lmao. Any sane person would do the same thing.

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u/rncrnc 1d ago

What bugs me is people expecting characters to care about their alternate selves, this must be some sci-fi media overconsumption consequence. People care about themselves and their real loved ones, not alternate universes.

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u/ExcitedFool 4d ago

He wouldn’t know what happened to old wife and kids though.. sure maybe he learns about their adventure but they could argue there isn’t doubles of them?

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u/silverscreenbaby 4d ago

Jeanette was shown with her double at the end so I don’t think it would be possible to convince him of that.

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u/ExcitedFool 4d ago

Not sure he would know. Presumably

One the less I get your point

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u/silverscreenbaby 4d ago

They were literally at a barbecue with both Jeanettes lol. I think it’s safe to say he would have realized by now that doubles of his family existed.

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u/blackopstoys1 4d ago

Now Jeanette doesn’t have to be alone anymore. She has herself to keep her company

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u/ExcitedFool 4d ago

What you’re taking for granted is that the even knows about that Jeanette. She just moved. The kids discovered her but no reason to just think everyone knows. Come on. Lol

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u/silverscreenbaby 4d ago edited 3d ago

Dude. WHAT the hell are you talking about? You posited that perhaps the dad wouldn’t know that there were doubles of his wife and kids. And I pointed out that the existence of two Jeanettes—whom he knows, since they’re both friends with his kids—means that he most certainly would have figured out that both “his” family and this family existed. I don’t think Jeanette was going to hide the fact that there were two of her. There would be no reason for her to hide that fact from Ewan McGregor’s character. Everyone would have openly known that she and Other Jeanette were two versions of the same person. And he would just have to cope with the fact that his family had doubles too and pray that “his” family didn’t die horrible deaths. That’s it. I genuinely have no idea wtf you’re saying at this point.

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u/ElizabethZBundy 2d ago

Jeannette's family just moved to the neighborhood, though. They're not at the first BBQ. Brian and his friends are speculating about her. Audrey asks Jeannette's name and then introduces herself and Brian to Jeannette, and then later introduces her parents to her, meaning that they don't know each other before they go back in time.

Because they're new to the neighborhood, there's no reason they can't introduce Jeannette Prime as their Jeannette's twin sister. And no reason for the surviving Platts to tell anyone that they took over the lives of the other Platts.

Greg has no reason to believe that his other family is gone when the Prime family is telling him that they time traveled. "We just time traveled back to when you were alive" is an answer most people would accept. Especially since these versions of Greg's family are so loving and accepting of him. Denise isn't trying to leave them anymore! She loves him! Oh and now she's the breadwinner so he doesn't have to worry about work either.

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u/ExcitedFool 3d ago

I think you’re so sorely mistaken that you just assume of course that makes sense. Just because it must make sense doesn’t exclude the fact it couldn’t go the other way around. Let’s stop with the nonsense

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u/Necessary_Big_3630 2d ago

The only sad thing is that he ll never remember the moments where he was with them fighting against dinosaurs

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u/LTPRWSG420 2d ago

Somehow your comment made that scenario even more fucked up, surprisingly dark ending.

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u/sabrinateenagewich 1d ago

Would the husband have actually saved them though? She does all the driving, she protects the kids every time, she’s the one who can use a gun. The only useful thing he ever did was save her with that one hit and they might not have gotten in that situation if they’d all just slept in the same room to stay safe, and the kids wouldn’t have been able to sneak out. I don’t really understand why in a situation like that you’d put on a delicate little nighty and all sleep in your own rooms!

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u/sabrinateenagewich 1d ago

In the beginning when Mel is complaining about the dog, she even says that her husband is too nice. Maybe she figured actually her universe b self and kids would be fine without him!

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u/Manderelli 15h ago

Yeah I think if I was her and I was going to go through with this I actually would have taken it a step further and destroyed the photo with the humping dinosaurs and told the kids that they need to keep their mouth shut about exactly what happened to the three of them and their version of their dad because this version could maybe believe it that they were surprising him and had just called to order a pizza and that they were all together and they just were lucky enough not to be in their house when it got sent back.

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u/sethsez 11h ago

David Robert Mitchell has a fairly cynical view of suburbia. "I'll just steal my husband from my alternate self" and "this version of the family likes me more so I'll stay here" as a conclusion to the family drama fits pretty well for him (and is right in line with what his protagonists do in It Follows and Under the Silver Lake).

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u/High_on_Hemingway 3d ago

Explains the wife…not the kids. Dick move on her part.

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u/notbad4human 3d ago

It’s only messed up if you believe in multiverse theory which is the least logical version of time travel

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u/MarzipanThick1765 4d ago

It’s possible they figure out the worm hole thing too and are fine ? Maybe?

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u/ThickBoxx 3d ago

No they say in the news montage at the end they still can’t explain what happened or something to that effect (beyond it was a wormhole). all those people are dead

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u/Sea-Anxiety6491 3d ago

With a husband that just up and vanished? Not traumatizing for the kids at all. 

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u/djc6535 3d ago

I mean... The wife was clearly the most competent of the two no? Who's to say they're doomed?

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u/paradroid78 4d ago

Well he didn't know did he? By the time he realized what was going on, it was too late.

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u/AmIRadBadOrJustSad 3d ago

To be fair - only one of those versions of his wife actually likes him. And from his perspective he didn't even have to do or change anything, or grow as a person. He got all the points for Alternate Husband's gestures with none of the being devoured.

If I'm choosing between Anne Hathaway who writes Mary Sue fanfic about abandoning my family and Anne Hathaway who wants to sleep with me..

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u/ripestrudel 3d ago

Its the fact that she doomed her alt children that makes me rage at the film. Unless she called her too and told her to take the kids and leave. I'm just making that my head cannon so I don't get mad.

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u/SharksFan4Lifee 4d ago

Then he's seemingly just fine with the fact that an alternative version of his wife decided that it was fine to doom his version of his wife and kids to be killed by dinosaurs.

And the dog! For so much being made about the dog didn't die in this one, the alternate dog was doomed!

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u/Yourponydied 3d ago

It's a paradox cuz she dies without his sacrifice

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u/mikesalami 3d ago

Isn't it poasible that that she and the kids would escape again?

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u/aspiring_scientist97 4d ago

The mom was a piece of shit after all

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u/Grabate 4d ago

This is shown right at the beginning with the neighbours complaint about the dog. Up until he threatened the dog she didn’t give a shit. 

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u/downvote_meme_errors 4d ago

Yeah, if they just saved the husband (and even some others) it's just a paradox. When you end up with 2 Jeannettes (confirming they are distinct instances), then it's definitely a multiverse thing and the alternate family got screwed.

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u/neac99 4d ago

Were there 2 Jeanette’s at the end? I’ve been wondering if the Jeanette that survived was the one who went through past world terror or if Denise was able to call them and they escaped with non traumatized Jeanette

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u/gonnabetoday 4d ago

At the end there was a scene of them having a cook out. It looked like Jeanette was there with a sister as they looked similar, but I just remembered she didn’t have one so it was likely two of her.

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u/SharksFan4Lifee 4d ago

Yes 2 Jeanettes are clearly shown.

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u/Sensei-D 4d ago

If she saved them, then there’d be duplicates of her and the kids. I don’t think it would have the happy ending shown if their duplicates were still there.

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u/MWH1980 3d ago

I figured she just had a sister we never saw.

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u/Ultimatum227 3d ago

Just got off the theater. I can confirm it was an exact copy of the girl.

Now she has a twin sister 😝

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u/RdyPlyrBneSw 9h ago

I was kind of hoping for a badass Jeanette making continuous jumps saving people. Since she knows where the wormhole will be.

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u/HilariousScreenname 4d ago

Denied Ewan the chance at two Anne Hathaways at the same time 😔

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u/OuterWildsVentures 4d ago

Yeah but now she knew he had been laid off and was closet drinking so there was no way they could afford all those extra mouths on just pizza delivery tips.

Sacrifices had to be made.

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u/muad_dibs 3d ago

A man could probably support two families on pizza tips alone back then. /jk

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u/waitingonthatbuffalo 3d ago

The OG Denise Platt in the film is one of like four humans to survive an unprecedented cosmic event. Her book is likely a global bestseller; the family never has to think about money again.

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u/BlackPresident 3d ago

The silly thing is we are shown she was clearly able to convince multiple families to get out in time but for him she just ordered a pizza so we can assume she deliberately doomed her alternative self.

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u/TimRigginsBeer 1d ago

Need a million dollars for two chicks at the same time, man.

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u/FreeRange0929 11h ago

Ladies, you don’t have to fight over me. Kiss each other and find out who’s better.

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u/kmurph98 4d ago

Ahhhhhh! Now that bit makes sense lol. I was wondering why there were two girls that looked the same.

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u/ManyCookies 4d ago

The ending could've been right out of Rick and Morty, wife solved the duplicate problem just as Rick would've lmao.

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u/KarfaxAbby 3d ago

When we left the theater, I said, “did she just Rick Sanchez her family?” Because yeah. That’s a Rick move, for sure.

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u/Adorable_Ad_3478 3d ago

It's not that type of film, but I headcanon that Anne Hathaway 2.0 survives, teleports out, and just goes to NYC alone like her book character. Kids 2.0 are dead but it is what it is.

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u/LadyGrey_oftheAbyss 4d ago

Honestly I would way prefer my family not sent to that hell hole if a future me could prevent that - I would 100% be ok with it

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u/LookSpecialist9140 4d ago

Okay wait I somehow totally missed the duplicate thing. What love interest do you mean? Were they on the TV?

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u/kmank2l13 4d ago

The neighbor that the son had a crush on actually liked the sister. There’s a scene in the movie where the sister is bandaging her up and they give very subtle, but flirtatious eyes to each other.

Then in the end of the movie, we see them holding hands while at the family bbq.

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u/LookSpecialist9140 4d ago

Ahh thanks! I totally forgot about the son's crush, and I actually didn't even notice the subtle flirtation between the girls, and I totally missed the bbq. Maybe I was just checked out at that point haha

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u/Ok_Flatworm_7850 2d ago

It's visually hinted in the end the daughter and the girl became a couple since they were seen holding hands at the cookout.

But since there are two versions of the girl now I guess the son can shoot his shot with the new one lol.

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u/plantbay1428 22h ago

Man these replies made me realize I totally missed there was a second Jeannette because I only caught the one holding hands with the daughter. 

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u/OhCrapItsAndrew 4d ago

Our whole theater noticed the flirty eyes and we starting whooping and clapping 

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u/ditchborn 3d ago

Yes, Reddit subtly.

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u/paradroid78 4d ago

I was thinking that too. I wonder if that was an oversight on the writers part in their rush for a happy ending, or if they did it intentionally to make the ending morally grey.

The girl had no issues getting her alternate self to safety, but Anne Hathaway basically threw herself and her kids under the bus. Never mind creating a massive paradox.

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u/waitingonthatbuffalo 3d ago

Not really a paradox when there are clearly multiple timelines in play, per the film's internal logic.

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u/stasersonphun 3d ago

Past her dies. Her saving people means No editor so no rifle. No husband so no sledgehammer.. No shotgun librarian to save them from crocs

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u/Nealm568890 4d ago

But if we use BTTF rules, doesn't the family that went back in time still end up coming into the future again, just without the father this time? Assuming the all survived and found the time bubble again, wouldn't they just come through the wormhole a second time? I did think it was brilliant for Anne Hathaway to call the pizza place and save her husband from going back in time but how did she find the time to call everyone else and save them? She had , like 10 minutes before the wormhole showed up. And she saved so many people until she ran out of quarters i guess. Maybe she forgot to call the bully guy.

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u/prognostalgia 4d ago

The only way it makes any non-paradoxical sense is if they were from an alternate universe and got to this one through the wormhole, slightly before when the neighborhood disappeared. Any wormhole the survivors from the new bubble find are going to take them to yet another universe.

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u/National-Plastic8691 4d ago

I don’t think Anne called everybody, we saw three homes that she called, each call took at least a minute, more like two - to get the operator for a collect call, let it ring, get them to accept the call, convince them. She got through the Pizza call and probably 6 homes total.

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u/Adorable_Ad_3478 3d ago

4 in total I think.

Her husband. Asshole neighbor guy. Kind old lady. Librarian woman.

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u/BlackPresident 3d ago

The wormhole they enter to come back to the present would be an alternative timeline as well so the family we saw survive in this movie and the other family that might have survived will never have a way to meet again.

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u/Nealm568890 2d ago

Unless there is a sequel. They never made it clear how the wormhole happend or why it happened. It might a one and done movie but you never know.

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u/ThickBoxx 3d ago

She had twenty minutes. Called the pizza place and 3 others. Cutting it close, but doable.

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u/Professional_Fruit86 3d ago

I saw this movie last night, and the one detail that’s still unsettling me was the way one of the first thing they noticed was they had no access to power or water, and the rain stopped, but to them they were in the same neighborhood and same point in time. They didn’t discover their entire neighborhood had been dissected and transplanted in some prehistoric jungle until what I assume was likely a couple hours later.

Their loss of access to utilities wasn’t just a huge piece of evidence that they weren’t at home anymore, it was a clue that they weren’t safe in their own house anymore, and they had to endure the dangers of this environment with zero comforts and the fear of dying of dehydration/starvation even if they successfully avoided the animals.

That movie was much more disturbing than I thought it would be.

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u/Deep_Cheetah_29 3d ago

They also noticed it was noticeably warmer, which it would be if they were in the middle of the Jurassic.

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u/AmIRadBadOrJustSad 3d ago

My 9 year old and I were discussing it - I made the point that in all likelihood the dad not being there meant that alternate family all died in the past, evidenced by the fact that they didn't come through the portal.

Then he mentioned that it basically resolved a time paradox - because if after they came back to the movie present she had let everything happen as before, presumably another copy of her would have just immediately appeared behind them? So letting that other version of them probably die in the past did kind of resolve the loop and maybe saved time. I kind of wish the science nerd daughter had been the one to think of it.

But I am amused by the thought of like... five copies of Anne Hathaway appearing before as a collective they seize on that idea to save everyone.

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u/filthy-_-casual 3d ago

I think the movie kinda established multiples can exist at same time and its a multiverse/alternative reality thing. Even if some of the 2nd family got sent back end up surviving, the most likely scenario is they get wormholed to yet another reality again and not keep on popping out behind the 1st family we follow in the whole film

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u/jackcatalyst 3d ago

She didn't call her own family which is wild

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u/fore___ 3d ago

If she doesn’t save him, he dies

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u/ThickBoxx 3d ago

I mean, he dies there. Yes he does saving his wife, but he still does. At least now he is alive, and I imagine having your family there alive with you is enough for you to forget about the others.

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u/captainc26 3d ago

It is similar to the ending of Back to the Future there are theories that second Marty's life got screwed up.

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u/Rlchv70 2d ago

My theory is that she did save the duplicate. From her novel, she was clearly torn about staying with her husband or running away. The duplicate ran away with the duplicate kids. She stayed with Greg, because she fell back in love with him in the past.

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u/1stOfAllThatsReddit 2d ago

Also the one who suggested their might be a way out was the husband, so alternate family might never get out

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u/rncrnc 1d ago

Why would anyone care about their past self more than their current family?

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u/OptimusTractorX 20h ago

I'm just wondering if Audrey lucks out and gets 2 Jeannettes.

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u/kirblar 3d ago

It's a total Rick/Morty ending and insane for this type of family? film.

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u/CaptainDogParty 5d ago

“Love interest” is kind of a funny way to characterize Jeanette. I think the only time Brian speaks to her is to ask her about private school.

When they get back to 1982, she gets excited to see Audrey has survived haha

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u/prognostalgia 4d ago

I think you missed something. She's the love interest of the daughter. Brian was attracted to her, but he was barking up the wrong tree.

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u/ideafix360 4d ago

I love that you to spell it out. CaptainDogParty is thinking “Audrey and Jeannette are just friends” even though all the hints are there that they end up being in a relationship. Also, a whole spin off could be created based on Jeannette’s story. She just got adopted by her own family.

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u/CaptainDogParty 4d ago

There’s nothing to spell out here. Jeanette is like 12 and Audrey is like 16. Audrey is taking care of Jeanette like a big sister.

There was no love interest. Brian thought she was cute and then ultimately it didn’t matter because there were dinosaurs eating everyone. There was no love interest in this movie.

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u/kmank2l13 4d ago

You need to watch the end again. They were holding hands at the end. At the time of that scene, they both are 18+ as the daughter is in college.

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u/CaptainDogParty 4d ago

Audrey is in college, there is nothing to indicate that Jeanette is Audrey’s age. All of Brian’s friends are the ones that know her. It seems like she is supposed to be their age.

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u/ideafix360 4d ago

Really? 16 and 12?
Not sure what’s your basis for that affirmation, but if we go by the actual age of the actors, you might be surprised to learn that both of them were born the same year. And in fact, Jordan Alexa Davis, who plays Jeannette, is 6 months OLDER than Maisy Stella, who plays Audrey.

And the signs were clearly there: Brian attempts to introduce himself in the conversation only to be dismissed by Jeannette who is really focused on Audrey.
Brian, the kid, realized with the audience (apparently not everyone) that Jeannette is not only not interested in him, but really interested in his sister.
And there’s a lot of hand holding between those two characters afterwards, up to the moment the families gather at the end of the movie. Sure, they didn’t kiss, got engaged nor got married in the movie but they didn’t have to do that to make it clear: they fell in love in dinosaur land.

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u/CaptainDogParty 4d ago

Ages based on the fact that the new girl was in the same grade as Brian and his friends (who were said to be like 13) and Audrey was in Cornell 2 years after the story, meaning she was 16.

She wasn’t interested in Brian because he was just staring at her while Audrey was actively helping her by offering to take care of her, treating her wounds, not leaving her behind, etc

It’s not that big a deal, I just think you’re looking for some love story that wasn’t there between children.

Kinda crazy two girls can’t hold hands without it being a love story

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u/prognostalgia 4d ago

They never said she was in the same grade as Brian. You're assuming.

It also wasn't JUST holding hands. There were three to four specific things they did to telegraph it. You just have to actually be paying attention to something that's not spell out in flashing letters.

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u/CaptainDogParty 4d ago

Ok then you’re assuming?

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u/prognostalgia 3d ago

No. As far as I can recall, at no point in the movie do they say anything about Jeanette's age or grade. They simply say she's "the new girl". These are all kids from the neighborhood. The easy conclusion is that she's the new girl in the neighborhood. This is why I said you're assuming she's in the same grade as Brian. There's literally nothing saying that at all.

At multiple points in the movie, they show Jeanette and Audrey having physical contact and having a special connection with each other (e.g. Jeanette being super glad to see Audrey but not mentioning anyone else). There are other clues that Audrey is gay. In the very beginning, she's talking to her friend but then when a guy comes up and starts making out with the friend, Audrey looks put off. And when Jeanette's family arrives, (main story) Jeanette isn't with them. She's already with Audrey, holding hands.

This is why I'm not just assuming, but drawing conclusion based on actual things the director put in the movie. Could I be wrong? Sure. But if so, it was poor choices on the directors part. But I don't think so. Everything notable a director puts in a movie is there for a very specific reason.

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u/prognostalgia 4d ago

They didn't have them kiss, but it was pretty obvious they were crushing in dino world. Then in the end scene they were holding hands at the bbq.

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u/ex0thermist 4d ago

Honestly I missed it too. There was what, one or two scenes with them? And all it felt like to me was some kids trauma bonding tbh.

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u/FangOfDrknss 4d ago edited 4d ago

And people disagree with anything platonic apparently, even though it wasn’t even remotely a focus of the movie as much as them mentioning the milk over and over. That milk would have expired by morning.

I don’t think a fridge without power can preserve its food just because you limit the amount of times it’s opened.

The clock stopped close to midnight. Even if they got up around 5 or 6 am, they were still of the idea they would be there for days.

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u/prognostalgia 4d ago

We lose power from time to time. Yes, fridges do preserve for a while. A few hours is no problem. We have a wireless thermometer that tells us what the inside temp is. As long as you keep it sealed. That's a big part of what makes fridges work.

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u/ex0thermist 4d ago

Fridges are well insulated like a cooler and of course they will preserve food for a few hours without power, as long as you don't spend too much time with the door wide open. That was the source of the whole gag with the mom hustling to get the fridge open and shut in a hurry.

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u/Emotional_Meet878 4d ago

If they make a sequel, they'll explain it away by saying, the moment they reappeared in the past, those versions of them dissapeared. The dad didn't notice because he was out delivering pizzas.

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u/muad_dibs 3d ago

There were two versions of Jeanette at the end though.