The End of Oak Street Wants to Party Like It’s 1982
Anne Hathaway plays a mother in a 1980s suburban family drama that uses nostalgic set pieces to explore uneasy present-day meaning.
- The 99-minute thriller 'The End of Oak Street' debuted in theaters nationwide on Friday, August 14, directed by writer-director David Robert Mitchell and starring Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor as suburban parents navigating a 1982-set family adventure.
- Set in a Midwest cul-de-sac during the summer of 1982, the story explores marital discord between Denise Platt and her husband Greg, whose domestic struggles anchor the narrative before prehistoric chaos intrudes.
- The neighborhood is transported to a Mesozoic-era jungle where eleven species of dinosaurs roam; as apex predators invade, Greg wields a sledgehammer and Denise defends the family with a rifle.
- Through intense survival sequences, the Platts reconnect and confirm the primacy of the family unit as Hathaway grounds the film with heartfelt emotion while battling the Cretaceous chaos.
- Writer-Director Mitchell dedicated the film to his recently passed father, blending Spielbergian fantasy with 1980s nostalgia and utilizing Industrial Light & Magic effects for the suburban struggle against ancient threats.
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Review: ‘The End of Oak Street’ Takes a Bite Out of Suburbia
An '80s suburban family faces rampaging dinosaurs in David Robert Mitchell's suspenseful sci-fi survival thriller. The post Review: ‘The End of Oak Street’ Takes a Bite Out of Suburbia appeared first on Metro Weekly.
‘The End of Oak Street’ Review: Thrills and chills abound in the 80s-set Dino venture grounded by Anne Hathaway’s emotional performance
Summer’s last hurrah has arrived! Dinosaurs invade the suburbs in the ’80s-set “The End of Oak Street,” featuring a rootin’-tootin’ Anne Hathaway, who should go by Annie (as in Oakley), as a mom armed with a rifle, defending her family from the Cretaceous chaos. Ewan McGregor plays the dad, with Christian Convery and Maisy Stella as the teenage kids in the family adventure written and directed by David Robert Mitchell (“It Follows,” “Under the S…
REVIEW: ‘The End of Oak Street’
The new Anne Hathaway movie, The End of Oak Street, is an exercise in Larry Tate-ism. To explain to those who aren’t 147 years old like me, Larry Tate was the advertising executive on the sitcom Bewitched whose opinions would shift drastically depending on what his client would say. When his underling Darrin came up...
The End of Oak Street Wants to Party Like It’s 1982
The End of Oak Street is set in the Year of Our Lord 1982 A.D., concurrent with a genre movie renaissance so profound and consequential that critic Chris Nashawaty wrote a very good book about it more than four decades later. Since there’s no particular story reason for this flick about a suburban Michigan neighborhood […]
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