By using the veneer of this specific setting, The End of Oak Street can immediately conjure to mind Amblin movies of this era. The End of Oak Street Stretches Its IdeaThe End of Oak Street does have a “reason” for why everything in the movie happens, and does its best to explain it quickly, so quickly, in fact, that it’s almost comical. One of the real strengths of The End of Oak Street is that David Robert Mitchell is a patient director. There is one very irritating choice made visually for The End of Oak Street, which is Mitchell’s insistence on using split diopter shots. The End of Oak Street debuts in theaters Friday, August 14.