‘The End of Oak Street’ Is the Weirdest Big Movie of the Year

Ewan McGregor and Anne Hathaway in The End of Oak Street. (Courtesy Warner Bros. Pictures)The End of Oak Street is a movie from another time. I mean this both literally and figuratively.In the literal sense, The End of Oak Street is about a street that is transported back in time. We open on an unhappy family at a block party sometime in the early 1980s, judging by the clothing, cars, and music. Denise Platt (Anne Hathaway) is struggling to keep it together as her marriage to Greg (Ewan McGregor) disintegrates. She’s unhappy and writing a novel about that unhappiness; he’s out of work and delivering pizzas to make ends meet.Their kids, Audrey (Maisy Stella) and Brian (Christian Convery) are like the kids of so many 1980s movies: not nearly as oblivious as their parents seem, but hopeful li