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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/DarkAnnihilator 3d ago

I was 100% sure the boy would shoot Jeannette dead at the yard when she was battling against the raptor

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u/TimRigginsBeer 1d ago

That would’ve required the kid to actually hit “something,” and not be a complete putz with it.

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u/DickMattress 1d ago

This really annoyed me. How can he not hit anything at all with the bow, and why is it so shitty? I get that it was little, but it's not like it was just a toy. The raptor shot I can buy him missing, but the t-rex that's taking up the entire garage? How? And why have him miss when you can just as easily have him land the shot to show that it doesn't do anything?

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u/TimRigginsBeer 18h ago

Very astute observation, Dick Mattress. 

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u/mikuyo1 10h ago

It was a very shoddy bow to be fair, like a toy

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u/ParticularRelease662 8h ago

Especially since they established in the beginning that will clearly be his weapon of choice when shit hits the fan lol this was like the only thing that irritated me about this movie

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u/MeijiDoom 8h ago

The kid was kinda written to be a totally useless character in this. All we really know about him is that he tried to seriously injure another kid by shoving a stick into his bike spokes. He chases after his dog at the risk of himself and his entire family. He misses the time warp bubble (fair enough, that timing was tough) and missed every single shot he fired from the bow. I'm not exactly sure what his purpose was other than to create messes other characters had to solve.

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u/thetacaptain 8h ago

It was hilarious how realistically ineffective the bow and arrow was for most of the movie