The year of Anne Hathaway is kicked into hyperdrive.Following the release of the legacy sequel "The Devil Wears Prada 2," the indie art house film "Mother Mary" and on the heels of Christopher Nolan's epic "The Odyssey," the Oscar winner now stars in the new movie "The End of Oak Street" (and she still has another movie slated for this fall!). She and Ewan McGregor are Denise and Greg Platt, a not-so-happy couple who put on a happy face for their two teenage children, Audrey and Brian (Maisy Stella and Christian Convery) in their idyllic neighborhood on — you guessed it — Oak Street in Summer 1982. One night, a mysterious light floods the outside of their home, and they wake up without any power, running water, and are not even picking up any radio stations.
It doesn't take long after Denise and Greg leave the house to figure out something isn't right — there are dinosaurs everywhere. ‘ONE NIGHT ONLY’ REVIEW: MONICA BARBARO AND CALLUM TURNER CHARM IN HIGH-CONCEPT ROM-COMAnne Hathaway as Denise Platt in "The End of Oak Street," a Warner Bros.Pictures release.
(Daniel McFadden/Warner Bros.Pictures)The entirety of their neighborhood was somehow transported back to a prehistoric era where the end of the street is literally cut off by a giant cliff with jungles taking over people's backyards.
The Platts must fight to survive and find a way back home — if there's even a way back home. Someone in Hollywood — possibly writer-director David Robert Mitchell — must've pitched, "What if it's 'Jurassic Park' but set in suburbia?" The premise is totally inexplicable, and that's completely OK, as long as the audience can buy into the premise, even one this absurd.Mitchell's strong execution on a pure entertainment level supersedes the need for a logical explanation. ‘SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY’ REVIEW: TOM HOLLAND, ZENDAYA RETURN FOR ACTION-PACKED, EMOTIONAL SEQUELChristian Convery as Brian Platt, Maisy Stella as Audrey Platt in "The End of Oak Street,"...