When Does "The End of Oak Street" (2026) Take Place?
"The End of Oak Street" is a science fiction film written by David Robert Mitchell that released August 12th, 2026. So when is "The End of Oak Street" set?
It takes place roughly in the year:
We know this because over the course of the main action we see a live allosaurus, a real-world type of dinosaur that first appeared around 155 million years ago in North America as well as Europe and became entirely extinct about 143 million years ago.
~141000000 BC
We know this because over the course of the main action we see a live allosaurus, a real-world type of dinosaur that first appeared around 155 million years ago in North America as well as Europe and became entirely extinct about 143 million years ago.
[HOWEVER, we also see a spinosaurus, a type of dinosaur that first appeared around 100 million years ago and became entirely extinct about 94 million years ago. Since they were indigenous to North Africa and not North America in the real world, we can assume they lived earlier and on a different continent in the fictional world [diegesis] of "The End of Oak Street".]
Additionally, there is a small portion of the main action that functions like a framing prologue and a first epilogue. During this first epilogue, when the Platt family falls out of a portal, they urgently ask, "What year is it?" and Mrs. Rey answers, "Are you crazy? It’s 1982. Get out of my pool." So 'the present' in the beginning and the end must be 1982 AD.
Finally, there is an epilogue that begins with a relative time setting title card telling us it is: "2 Years Later". So it is presumably 1984 AD during the epilogue.
1,982 + 2 = 1,984.
