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End of Oak Street, The

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Not suitable under 14; parental guidance to 14 (violence, scary scenes, coarse language)

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  • overall comments and recommendations
  • details of classification and consumer advice lines for End of Oak Street, The
  • a review of End of Oak Street, The completed by the Australian Council on Children and the Media (ACCM) on 18 August 2026.

Overall comments and recommendations

Children under 14 Not suitable due to violence, scary scenes and coarse language.
Children aged 14 Parental guidance recommended due to violence and coarse language.
Children aged 15 and over Ok for this age group.

About the movie

This section contains details about the movie, including its classification by the Australian Government Classification Board and the associated consumer advice lines. Other classification advice (OC) is provided where the Australian film classification is not available.

Name of movie: End of Oak Street, The
Classification: M
Consumer advice lines: Sustained threat, violence and coarse language
Length: 100 minutes

ACCM review

This review of the movie contains the following information:

A synopsis of the story

Set in 1982, Denise (Anne Hathaway) and Greg Platt (Ewan McGregor) live with their two children, Audrey (Maisy Stella) and Brian (Christian Convery), in a leafy neighbourhood in Flowervale, Michigan. One night, a huge white light appears in the sky together with a storm and power outage. The next morning, Denise and Greg venture out to look for their dog Starbuck, and find that their street has been transformed into the age of dinosaurs. Encountering dinosaurs of various shapes and sizes in the area, the parents try to find an escape route but all exits are blocked by water and separation from the rest of the land. In desperation, Denise and Greg return home and barricade themselves and their children in their house.

Audrey suggests that their neighbourhood has moved through a wormhole, back millions of years. Matters get much worse when the dinosaurs attack their neighbours, many of whom are then seen lying dead in the street. One day, Brian sees Starbuck in the street and sets out to find him, resulting in a terrifying search by the other family members to find Brian. They also meet up with a young girl called Jeannette (Jordan Alexa Davis) who has lost both her parents, and the Platts take her with them.

Denise discovers a small wormhole, which appears and disappears at regular intervals. Eventually, some of the family manage to get through the wormhole, back to 1982 just prior to the wormhole first appearing. Denise has to use her wits to reverse the tragic impact on their neighbourhood.

Themesinfo

Children and adolescents may react adversely at different ages to themes of crime, suicide, drug and alcohol dependence, death, serious illness, family breakdown, death or separation from a parent, animal distress or cruelty to animals, children as victims, natural disasters and racism. Occasionally reviews may also signal themes that some parents may simply wish to know about.

Science Fiction; Time travel; Dinosaurs.

Use of violenceinfo

Research shows that children are at risk of learning that violence is an acceptable means of conflict resolution when violence is glamourised, performed by an attractive hero, successful, has few real life consequences, is set in a comic context and / or is mostly perpetrated by male characters with female victims, or by one race against another.

Repeated exposure to violent content can reinforce the message that violence is an acceptable means of conflict resolution. Repeated exposure also increases the risks that children will become desensitised to the use of violence in real life or develop an exaggerated view about the prevalence and likelihood of violence in their own world.

There is a lot of violence in this movie, including:

  • The Platts’ neighbour Mel is annoyed by their dog digging holes under the fence and threatens to shoot him. Denise says if he does, she’ll burn his house down.
  • A bully threatens Brian and beats him up on one occasion.
  • Denise finds her elderly neighbour dead on her kitchen floor, covered in blood and bloody claw prints leading away.
  • Denise shoots at the dinosaurs on several occasions with a rifle. Greg attacks them with a baseball bat.
  • A woman is seen being grabbed by the head by an Allosaurus.
  • A picture is seen of a dinosaur eating another creature with blood dripping from its mouth.
  • The neighbour shoots at pterodactyls from his roof but they attack him and kill him.
  • Denise and Greg argue a lot and are often screaming and yelling at each other.
  • Greg and Denise are driving around the neighbourhood trying to find Brian, when an Allosaurus attacks the car. It pushes the car into a house, starting a fire. The parents escape but the dinosaur chases after them.
  • When a dinosaur threatens Jeannette, Brian fires his bow and arrow at it and Audrey hits it with a wooden stick.
  • A horde of dinosaurs chase after Greg and Denise who hide in a car. The dinosaurs jump on the car, smashing windows and rocking the car. A person in the drivers’ seat of the car is seen dead.
  • An Allosaurus chases Brian down the street. Denise shoots at it and it nearly grabs her. Greg hits it with a hammer on its leg and head and it falls down. However, it gets up again.
  • Denise stabs at an eel-type dinosaur with a kitchen knife several times.
  • An older woman shoots at crocodile-type dinosaurs with a rifle.
  • Brian falls off the roof and lands heavily on the ground. He has an injured leg and is attacked by a pterodactyl.
  • A main character is killed.

Material that may scare or disturb children

Under fiveinfo

Children under five are most likely to be frightened by scary visual images, such as monsters, physical transformations.

In addition to the above-mentioned violent scenes, there are some scenes in this movie that could scare or disturb children under the age of five, including the following:

  • The dinosaurs are all very scary.

Aged five to eightinfo

Children aged five to eight will also be frightened by scary visual images and will also be disturbed by depictions of the death of a parent, a child abandoned or separated from parents, children or animals being hurt or threatened and / or natural disasters.

In addition to the above-mentioned violent scenes and scary visual images, there are some scenes in this movie that could scare or disturb children aged five to eight, including the following:

  • A bright white light appears in the sky, the house starts to shake and a strong wind blows.
  • Several sudden loud noises and explosions.
  • The family hold candles during the blackout and they are all scared. Suddenly, a piercing noise is heard coming from outside. Greg goes outside to see what’s happening. Brian asks if it’s the end of the world.
  • The dinosaurs are all quite scary – some are seen as shadows. Allosauruses are very large, with huge teeth which are seen through wide open mouths, and they roar. One dinosaur is a very long, slippery, fat eel-type creature which also opens its mouth very wide, revealing long sharp teeth.
  • Greg and Denise are trapped inside a house while an Allosaurus bashes against the window, snapping and roaring at them.
  • The long, slippery eel-dinosaur slides in through a window into the house and slithers down the stairs and into the kitchen, where it opens its mouth really wide. Everyone is screaming as it attacks Denise.
  • A forest in the neighbourhood catches on fire, which spreads.
  • Brian is seen bleeding and left lying on the ground after the bully attacks him.

Aged eight to thirteeninfo

Children aged eight to thirteen are most likely to be frightened by realistic threats and dangers, violence or threat of violence and / or stories in which children are hurt or threatened.

In addition to the above-mentioned violent scenes, there are some scenes in this movie that could scare or disturb children aged eight to thirteen, including the following:

  • Greg and Denise and the children are constantly in danger from the dinosaurs chasing after them, and banging against doors and windows. The family all scream.
  • It seems Denise has been unhappy in the marriage for a long time and she and Greg often argue. The children are seen crying and upset about this.
  • Jeannette is scared and alone after her parents were killed. She cries.
  • Brian is trapped inside a garage while a dinosaur bangs in the door. He manages to escape through a window.
  • The family is all upset and in shock at the death of a member. The dinosaur is heard chewing at the body but this is not shown.

Thirteen and overinfo

Children over the age of thirteen are most likely to be frightened by realistic physical harm or threats, molestation or sexual assault and / or threats from aliens or the occult.

  • Nothing further noted.

Product placement

The following products are displayed or used in this movie:

  • Kellogg’s Froot Loops.

Sexual references

There are some sexual references in this movie, including:

  • A couple kiss.
  • Brian sneaks a look in a girly magazine, showing girls in skimpy lingerie.
  • Denise and Greg kiss.
  • The dog has a chew toy that the children joke is the neighbour’s genitals.

Nudity and sexual activity

There is some nudity and sexual activity in this movie, including:

  • Greg is seen in his underpants and a singlet.
  • Two Brontosauruses are seen mating.

Use of substances

There is some use of substances in this movie, including:

  • Drinking at a fun fair.
  • Greg has a secret stash of whisky in the garage, which he drinks from when stressed.
  • Greg tells Brian to stop smoking, which he denies but has to own up to.

Coarse language

There is some coarse language in this movie, including:

  • Hell
  • Bullshit
  • Damn
  • Shit
  • Holy shit
  • Kick your arse
  • Oh my God
  • Fucking (used once).

In a nutshell

The End of Oak Street is a science fiction thriller that transports a regular street into the dinosaur era, and pits humans against the ferocity of pre-historic creatures. The film is quite intense and the main characters are constantly in peril, making it more suited to teens and adults.

The main messages from this movie are to value what you have while you have it and not to take life and those you love for granted.

Values in this movie that parents may wish to reinforce with their children include:

  • Bravery
  • Courage
  • Heroism
  • Selflessness
  • The importance of family.

This movie could also give parents the opportunity to discuss with their children attitudes and behaviours, and their real-life consequences, such as:

  • The effect of marital disharmony on children. Both Audrey and Brian were very upset when their parents were arguing.
  • Audrey was seen crying a lot of the time and was seemingly depressed. Parents could discuss the need to focus on the positives rather than the negatives in life.
  • Religion is discussed as Greg and Brian both believe in God, while Denise and Audrey don’t. Jeannette also believes in God and attended a Catholic school. Parents could discuss their religious beliefs with their teens.