The Family That's Prey Together, Pt. 2 — War of the Worlds (2005)

David Robert Mitchell's The End of Oak Street drops an ordinary family into extraordinary circumstances, forcing them to focus all their energy on surviving- and maybe, just maybe, learning to understand each other along the way. That structure, combined with Oak Street 's Spielbergian spectacle, pointed us toward 2005's War of the Worlds, which fuses H.G. Wells' 1898 novel to images and emotions…