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The End of Oak Street

A suburban street gets torn out of its cul-de-sac reality and dropped somewhere hostile and unknown, and the only thing standing between the Platt family and oblivion is each other. Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor anchor a slick sci-fi mystery that trades cosmic horror for domestic stakes — less about the universe's rules, more about whether this particular family survives them.

TMDb rating6.9

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