The End Of Oak Street (12A)
Cast: Christian Convery, PJ Byrne, Jordan Alexa Davis, Maisy Stella, Ewan McGregor, Anne HathawayGenre: SciFi
Author(s): David Robert Mitchell
Director: David Robert Mitchell
Release Date: 14/08/2026
Running Time: 99mins
Country: US
Year: 2026
Denise Platt, her husband Greg and their two children Audrey and Brian are residents of Oak Street - a nondescript slice of American suburban where nothing remarkable happens. Until a bizarre phenomena transports their cosy neighbourhood to someplace unknown where denizens are large, carnivorous and partial to human flesh. The Platts must stick together in adversity to navigate their unrecognisable surroundings and perhaps find a way back home.
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The End Of Oak Street (12A) Film Review from LondonNet
If weird science suddenly transported you into the heart of Jurassic Park, how long do you think you would survive before a rampaging Spinosaurus or swooping Pterosaur used your femur as a rudimentary toothpick? Set in 1982, more than a decade before Steven Spielberg took his first gallivant with genetically engineered dinosaurs, The End Of Oak Street is a boisterous and brutal survival thriller festooned with rampaging prehistoric beasts, told from the perspective of a fractured family on the verge of implosion…
Denise Platt (Anne Hathaway) and husband Greg (Ewan McGregor) have reached an impasse in their marriage. Their children, Audrey (Maisy Stella) and Brian (Christian Convery), can sense the tension inside the family home on Oak Street. The unhappy mother seeks refuge in the basement where she types the first draft of a novel about a wife preparing to leave her husband and children. Ageing neighbour Mrs Huddleston (Anne Gee Byrd) kindly proof-reads the manuscript. Meanwhile, Greg disappears from family gatherings to earn cash from a secondary job as a pizza delivery man. Nothing remarkable happens in the nondescript slice of suburban America that Greg and Denise call home, unless you count occasional run-ins with argumentative next-door neighbour Mel (PJ Byrne), who has a vendetta against Brian’s dog Starbuck.
Blinding lights just after 11pm herald a bizarre phenomenon that teleports the Platts’ cosy neighbourhood back in time millions of years to a primeval vision of Earth populated by large, carnivorous creatures that relegate humans to the bottom of the food chain. The traumatised family must stick together in outrageous adversity to navigate perilous surroundings and locate other survivors of a terrifying time-jump.
The End Of Oak Street is a gung-ho romp that relishes every opportunity to feed humans into the slavering jaws of digitally rendered predators. Writer-director David Robert Mitchell is immune to casual sentimentality. The filmmaker gleefully racks up an impressive double-digit body count including repeated scenes of dinosaurs tearing at the exposed flesh of incapacitated human prey.
A couple of the breathlessly staged set pieces owe an obvious debt to the Jurassic Park and World franchises in their nerve-shredding execution but Mitchell engineers his own standout moment of skin-crawling mayhem with a creature that slithers quietly out of a backyard swimming pool. One interspecies skirmish elicits unintentional laughter then redeems itself with a ruthless payoff. Hathaway and McGregor commit wholeheartedly to their feuding spouses’ conflicting responses to threat. She embraces cold, hard realism and prefers to act on instinct while he languishes in a state of denial shrouded in cheerful optimism. “We’re going to survive and wait for the lights to take us back!” Greg calmly informs his family. On Oak Street at least, walking into the light might just be your salvation.
– Jo Planter
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