'The End of Oak Street': Jurassic Park Comes to Suburban America
The Platt family faces a 99-minute fight for survival after their neighborhood is sent 150 million years into the past, the review says.
- In The End of Oak Street, Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor star as the Platt family, whose suburban neighborhood is inexplicably transported 150 million years into the past.
- Director David Robert Mitchell begins the film with a 1980s Spielbergian aesthetic, but quickly pivots to survival horror as the Platts face prehistoric predators and family dysfunction.
- Hathaway and McGregor deliver strong performances grounding the film's premise, while Mitchell presents dinosaurs not as majestic creatures but as dangerous animals demanding respect.
- With an $80 million budget, the 99-minute film offers a concise theatrical experience, though critics note the tonal shift between family drama and horror creates an uneven result.
- Mitchell's film rejects the sentimental Spielbergian Amblin era, suggesting nature is indifferent to human sentiment and prioritizes raw survival over wonder.
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At The Movies: The End Of Oak Street • The Western Weekender
Verdict: 3/5 As someone who loves dinosaur movies, ‘The End Of Oak Street’ was high on my list this year, with its suspenseful trailers and thriller-esque energy. However, after seeing it, I was unfortunately left wondering what all the hype was about. The story centres on the Platt family, an average all-American family of four living in the 1980s. Their idyllic lifestyle is interrupted however, when they – and their entire neighbourhood – are …
The dinosaurs in The End Of Oak Street demand respect, not affection
Before any dinosaurs appear in The End Of Oak Street, there’s a massive pile of dino shit. The audience is not meant to sympathize with Mel (P.J. Byrne), the jerk of a neighbor who found the mass of excrement in his backyard, but they are meant to recognize the premonition for what it is. This is a dinosaur movie, and it’s hard to make a dinosaur movie without referencing Jurassic Park. It’s so hard that few studio movies beyond the most famous …
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'The End of Oak Street': Jurassic Park comes to suburban America
Blending prehistoric science fiction with a satire of American suburbia, David Robert Mitchell playfully subverts the conventions of Steven Spielberg's blockbuster, delivering a B-movie that is both wild and cleverly twisted.
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