The End of Oak Street

In 1982, aspiring novelist Denise Platt lives with her husband Greg, children Audrey and Brian, and dog Starbuck on Oak Street in the suburban town of Flowervale, Michigan. The couple's marriage is strained; Denise privately contemplates divorce, while Greg, having lost his regular job, secretly works odd jobs to support his family while publicly collecting a couple of extra bucks as a pizza delivery driver.

Denise is writing a novel and her neighbor, Mrs. Huddleston, has volunteered to be her editor. One day, when visiting her, Denise observes and photographs a mysterious plant that suddenly appears in her yard. At the library, the librarian, Mrs. Valcourt, identifies the plant as a species that went extinct millions of years ago. Later, Denise's neighbor Mel berates her because the family lets Starbuck destroy his yard. An unidentified pile of animal excrement subsequently appears in Mel's yard, leading him to believe it is a revenge prank. Radio broadcasts report increased solar-flare activity. During a storm, Greg returns home from a pizza delivery, when a huge white light suddenly engulfs Oak Street, accompanied by a change in atmospheric pressure, and a power outage.

The following morning, Denise and Greg leave their house to search for Starbuck, who has gone missing. They discover that Oak Street is surrounded by a prehistoric landscape from which dinosaurs emerge, and kill people in the neighborhood. They board up their houses' windows and their basement floods, destroying Denise's manuscript. Audrey concludes that the flashes of light were wormholes that transported the entire neighborhood millions of years into the past.

That night, Greg reveals he knows Denise is contemplating divorce after reading the draft of her novel, while also coming clean about losing his job. Meanwhile, Brian sees Starbuck outside his bedroom window and ventures outside to get him, with Audrey accompanying him. Mel is killed by pterodactyls. They encounter Jeannette Christiansen, Brian's neighborhood crush, who joins them after revealing her parents have been killed. Elsewhere, Denise and Greg, while trying to find the children, see a flash of light and follow it to a house containing a wormhole. They refuse to leave without their children, and the wormhole disappears. A herd of dinosaurs pursue them, but they take shelter in a car, reconcile, and reunite with the children.

The following morning, an Allosaurus attacks the group. Greg is killed protecting the others, who are able to flee. They encounter the wormhole again above Mrs. Valcourt's house and reach the roof. They learn that the wormhole appears and disappears at regular intervals. Jeannette jumps in and disappears, but when Brian attempts to follow, he misses the opening and falls. A pterosaur grabs him, but Starbuck appears and attacks the creature. The group attempt to take shelter inside Mrs. Valcourt's house but it is infested with pseudosuchians. Mrs. Valcourt emerges from hiding and manages to kill one before being killed by the others. Escaping back to the roof, the group are able to jump into the wormhole.

Returning to 1982, approximately twenty minutes before Oak Street is teleported away, Jeannette runs down to Oak Street to warn her parents and Denise - using a public phone - contacts and calls many Oak Street residents, including Mrs. Huddleston, Mrs. Valcourt and Mel, to leave the neighborhood prior to the white light appearing. She also contacts Greg to make his next pizza delivery to a distant bus stop. When Greg arrives, he is embraced by Denise and his kids. The white light appears again, engulfing the suburb as Oak Street disappears and is replaced by the prehistoric landscape.

Two years later, the military has contained the area while scientists study both the prehistoric environment and its wildlife and also on how and why the wormholes appeared. Denise has become a hero for warning residents and has published a book titled The End of Oak Street, based on her experiences.