Mighty Oak opens with Gina (Janel Parrish, from “Pretty Little Liars”), the manager of a San Diego rock band called Army of Love, trying to get the band to go up on stage at a local club, which means navigating the whims of the sexy lead singer, an Eddie Vedder knockoff named Vaughn (Levi Dylan), who happens to be Gina’s brother.
They’re a band on the rise — it turns out they’ve just landed the dream gig of opening for Arcade Fire for three shows at the Hollywood Bowl. But on their night drive up to Los Angeles, they smash into another car on the freeway, an accident that leaves Vaughn dead, and the band’s dreams in tatters.
Cut to 10 years later. The band members are still living in the Ocean Beach district of San Diego, and so is Gina (who now has blue hair), all of them toiling away at nothing jobs. But that’s when fate allows Gina to cross paths with Oak (Tommy Ragen), a mop-topped kid who’s a geek at school but happens to be a rock ‘n’ roll wizard. He lives with his sickly, druggie mom (Alexa Penavega) above the coffee shop the band used to hang at, and D.B. (Rodney Hicks), who owns the place, gives him Vaughn’s old Taylor guitar.
It’s at this point that Gina starts to notice something. Oak, in the coffee shop, points with devil-horn fingers toward a photograph of Vaughn on the wall; cut to a flashback of Vaughn onstage, holding up devil horns. And Oak sounds just like him! Could Oak — gulp! — be the reincarnation of Vaughn?
Mighty Oak is an American comedy film directed by Sean McNamara and starring Janel Parrish, Tommy Ragen, Carlos PenaVega, Ben Milliken, Nana Ghana, Gianna Harris, Levi Dylan, Rodney Hicks, Alexa PenaVega, Sean McNamara, Raven-Symoné and Emma Ragen. The screenplay is written by Matt Allen. It released on July 7, 2020 in the United States by Paramount Pictures.
Mighty Oak (2020)
Directed by: Sean McNamara
Starring: Janel Parrish, Tommy Ragen, Carlos PenaVega, Ben Milliken, Nana Ghana, Gianna Harris, Levi Dylan, Rodney Hicks, Alexa PenaVega, Sean McNamara, Raven-Symoné, Emma Ragen
Screenplay by: Matt Allen
Production Design by: Dawn R. Ferry
Cinematography by: Robert Hayes
Film Editing by: Maysie Hoy, Matt Michael
Costume Design by: Cailan Calandro
Set Decoration by: KimElaine Zirpolo
Art Direction by: Kasey Mannino
Music by: John Coda
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for thematic content involving substance abuse, language, some accident images and brief suggestive comments.
Distributed by: Paramount Pictures
Release Date: July 7, 2020 (United States)
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