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What are the best 1990s period piece movies? (I.e., made after 1999, set in 90s)

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Wild lascivious native
  05/27/25
Big Lebowski almost qualifies, released in 1998 but set in 1...
lavender adventurous community account toaster
  05/27/25
Who even watches these anymore?
titillating stage dog poop
  05/27/25
I still watch Film
Vivacious center
  05/27/25
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diverse carnelian corn cake half-breed
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Wild lascivious native
  05/27/25
but yet you know nothing of it
Comical crawly immigrant
  05/27/25
Sir, I attended the Werner Herzog Film Seminar, pretty sure ...
Vivacious center
  05/28/25
mean girls was released in 2004 but feels older imo
idiotic zippy kitty cat goal in life
  05/27/25
True Detective season one
red quadroon alpha
  05/27/25
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Hilarious Box Office
  05/27/25
Best answer so far
Wild lascivious native
  05/27/25
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Flatulent theater
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curious genital piercing
  05/27/25
tp
diverse carnelian corn cake half-breed
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Hilarious Box Office
  05/27/25
The segways are the second biggest unresolved mystery after ...
Wild lascivious native
  05/28/25
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Impertinent house
  05/28/25
Alpha Dog pops into mind first
Wonderful selfie
  05/27/25
(Nick Cassavetes) (JT)
Multi-colored nursing home
  05/29/25
There are not a lot - certainly no great films. Add The F...
Wild lascivious native
  05/27/25
How to train your dragon
titillating stage dog poop
  05/27/25
social network.
Charcoal stubborn menage
  05/27/25
Wolf of Wall Street
sexy silver shitlib police squad
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nofapping nibblets den
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Hilarious Box Office
  05/27/25
Mostly an 80s movie though.
Wild lascivious native
  05/27/25
Speed
Maniacal topaz pozpig
  05/27/25
I don’t think 1994’s Speed meets one of OP&rsquo...
Wild lascivious native
  05/27/25
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Hilarious Box Office
  05/27/25
Nigger Feet
titillating stage dog poop
  05/27/25
"period" is a gross word.
sticky station
  05/27/25
The Diaper
diverse carnelian corn cake half-breed
  05/27/25
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Hilarious Box Office
  05/27/25
I think this has to do with Klosterman’s theory about ...
Wild lascivious native
  05/27/25
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diverse carnelian corn cake half-breed
  05/27/25
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Hilarious Box Office
  05/27/25
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nofapping nibblets den
  05/28/25
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Hilarious Box Office
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The Queen (2006) The Fighter (2010) Erin Brocovich (2000) ...
Lemon shaky rigor love of her life
  05/27/25
Thanks for asking Chat to give you answers
Wild lascivious native
  05/28/25
Doesn't qualify with your parameters but Clerks is classic 9...
Trip judgmental principal's office pocket flask
  05/27/25
Yes, but not a period piece. Lots of movies reflect their t...
Wild lascivious native
  05/28/25
I think Superbad is set in the 2000s but it has a 90s aesthe...
Wild lascivious native
  05/28/25
Same for Napoleon dynamite Technically set in 2003 but ru...
idiotic zippy kitty cat goal in life
  05/28/25
Good one
Wild lascivious native
  05/28/25
lilo and stitch for the same reason
amber flickering newt
  05/28/25
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Hilarious Box Office
  05/28/25
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soul-stirring well-lubricated fanboi home
  06/07/25
Those tankard bracelets and Deb’s hair are incredibly ...
Wild lascivious native
  06/14/25
Road Trip
Maniacal topaz pozpig
  05/28/25
this is difficult imo because 9/11 really wiped clean our me...
Dull Razzle-dazzle Depressive Ape
  05/28/25
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Hilarious Box Office
  05/28/25
Pain & Gain Mid90s The Informant!
rambunctious forum
  05/28/25
Pain & Gain is probably the best answer ITT
Bright set
  05/29/25
Im a Curator
rambunctious forum
  05/29/25
Three Kings
Impertinent house
  05/28/25
1999
rambunctious forum
  05/28/25
One Day (2011) Love and Other Drugs (2010)
dashing hairy legs
  05/28/25
Black Hawk Down
Pungent filthpig meetinghouse
  05/28/25
this
Flatulent theater
  05/29/25
Lot of nostalgia for 1993 Somalia
Wild lascivious native
  05/29/25
I remember playing netdoom in an internet cafe in Berbera ar...
Vivacious center
  05/29/25
the belgian crime drama 'Maldoror' about the marc dutroux ca...
duck-like shrine
  05/28/25
I feel like that’s too well known to even bother discu...
Wild lascivious native
  05/29/25
Is The Departed set in the 1990s? Seemed to be based on the ...
Flatulent theater
  05/29/25
No. They were clearly using early 2000s era phones and using...
Maniacal topaz pozpig
  05/29/25
tyvmft
Flatulent theater
  05/29/25
The Creek, the in-universe remake of Season 1 of Dawson's Cr...
misunderstood dysfunction
  05/29/25
Harry Potter
floppy sickened hissy fit parlor
  06/03/25
The OJ Simpson miniseries that was on FX a few years ago - t...
Scarlet swashbuckling spot
  06/03/25
Good one
Wild lascivious native
  06/03/25
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Bright set
  06/03/25
tv show but derry girls. wife insisted i watch it. i tho...
twisted boyish pistol
  06/07/25
It’s criminally underrated
floppy sickened hissy fit parlor
  06/08/25
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twisted boyish pistol
  06/09/25


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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:15 AM
Author: Wild lascivious native



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:30 AM
Author: lavender adventurous community account toaster

Big Lebowski almost qualifies, released in 1998 but set in 1991.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2)#48964673)



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:31 AM
Author: titillating stage dog poop

Who even watches these anymore?

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:31 AM
Author: Vivacious center

I still watch Film

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: diverse carnelian corn cake half-breed



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: Wild lascivious native



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:29 PM
Author: Comical crawly immigrant

but yet you know nothing of it

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:33 AM
Author: Vivacious center

Sir, I attended the Werner Herzog Film Seminar, pretty sure I know about Film.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:32 AM
Author: idiotic zippy kitty cat goal in life

mean girls was released in 2004 but feels older imo

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2)#48964686)



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:34 AM
Author: red quadroon alpha

True Detective season one



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:22 PM
Author: Hilarious Box Office



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:02 PM
Author: Wild lascivious native

Best answer so far

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2)#48966429)



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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:48 AM
Author: Flatulent theater



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:23 PM
Author: curious genital piercing



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:28 PM
Author: diverse carnelian corn cake half-breed

tp

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:39 PM
Author: Hilarious Box Office



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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:52 AM
Author: Wild lascivious native

The segways are the second biggest unresolved mystery after the lawnmower

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2)#48966872)



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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:34 AM
Author: Impertinent house



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:38 AM
Author: Wonderful selfie

Alpha Dog pops into mind first

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:44 AM
Author: Multi-colored nursing home

(Nick Cassavetes)

(JT)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2)#48969853)



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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:19 PM
Author: Wild lascivious native

There are not a lot - certainly no great films.

Add The Fighter and Spring Breakers

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2)#48964843)



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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:22 PM
Author: titillating stage dog poop

How to train your dragon

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:23 PM
Author: Charcoal stubborn menage

social network.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:44 PM
Author: sexy silver shitlib police squad

Wolf of Wall Street

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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:23 PM
Author: nofapping nibblets den



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:24 PM
Author: Hilarious Box Office



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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:58 PM
Author: Wild lascivious native

Mostly an 80s movie though.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2)#48966409)



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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:45 PM
Author: Maniacal topaz pozpig

Speed

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: Wild lascivious native

I don’t think 1994’s Speed meets one of OP’s criteria.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2)#48966424)



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:24 PM
Author: Hilarious Box Office

Autoadmit.com

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: titillating stage dog poop

Nigger Feet

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: sticky station

"period" is a gross word.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2)#48966412)



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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: diverse carnelian corn cake half-breed

The Diaper

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:39 PM
Author: Hilarious Box Office



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: Wild lascivious native

I think this has to do with Klosterman’s theory about the vanishing future. The internet has made it so the 90s never left. There’s no clear break with the past like Nirvana ending the 80s. So the era continues to live on in the culture (e.g. Friends and Seinfeld still Top 5 tv shows by hours watched) preventing us from developing a collective Nostalgia for the 1990s.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2)#48966422)



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: diverse carnelian corn cake half-breed



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:08 PM
Author: Hilarious Box Office



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:44 AM
Author: nofapping nibblets den



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:49 AM
Author: Hilarious Box Office



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:18 PM
Author: Lemon shaky rigor love of her life

The Queen (2006)

The Fighter (2010)

Erin Brocovich (2000)

I, Tonya (2017)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2)#48966468)



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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:50 AM
Author: Wild lascivious native

Thanks for asking Chat to give you answers

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2)#48966869)



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:03 PM
Author: Trip judgmental principal's office pocket flask

Doesn't qualify with your parameters but Clerks is classic 90s.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2)#48966568)



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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:52 AM
Author: Wild lascivious native

Yes, but not a period piece. Lots of movies reflect their times (Clerks is great), but the 90s are massively underexplored by people from another, later time reflecting on the historical era and what it MEANS now that culture has some distance.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2)#48966871)



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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:54 AM
Author: Wild lascivious native

I think Superbad is set in the 2000s but it has a 90s aesthetic and is based on Rogen and Stone’s high school years.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2)#48966875)



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Date: May 28th, 2025 7:05 AM
Author: idiotic zippy kitty cat goal in life

Same for Napoleon dynamite

Technically set in 2003 but rural Idaho was still in 1990

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2)#48966880)



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:43 AM
Author: Wild lascivious native

Good one

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2)#48967107)



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:52 AM
Author: amber flickering newt

lilo and stitch for the same reason

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:55 AM
Author: Hilarious Box Office



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Date: June 7th, 2025 4:43 AM
Author: soul-stirring well-lubricated fanboi home



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Date: June 14th, 2025 10:02 AM
Author: Wild lascivious native

Those tankard bracelets and Deb’s hair are incredibly 90s

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2)#49014596)



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:59 AM
Author: Maniacal topaz pozpig

Road Trip

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:04 AM
Author: Dull Razzle-dazzle Depressive Ape

this is difficult imo because 9/11 really wiped clean our memories of problems in teh 90s. the late 90s movies (office space, american beauty, fight club) were all about the purposelessness of american life and culture.

kind of hard to reset a 90s film knowing what is going to happen

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2)#48967167)



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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:14 AM
Author: Hilarious Box Office



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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:10 AM
Author: rambunctious forum

Pain & Gain

Mid90s

The Informant!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2)#48967189)



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Date: May 29th, 2025 4:23 AM
Author: Bright set

Pain & Gain is probably the best answer ITT

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2)#48969811)



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Date: May 29th, 2025 7:11 AM
Author: rambunctious forum

Im a Curator

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:35 AM
Author: Impertinent house

Three Kings

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:38 AM
Author: rambunctious forum

1999

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:44 AM
Author: dashing hairy legs

One Day (2011)

Love and Other Drugs (2010)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2)#48967320)



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Date: May 28th, 2025 8:48 PM
Author: Pungent filthpig meetinghouse

Black Hawk Down

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:13 AM
Author: Flatulent theater

this

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Date: May 29th, 2025 7:49 AM
Author: Wild lascivious native

Lot of nostalgia for 1993 Somalia

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2)#48969956)



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Date: May 29th, 2025 8:44 AM
Author: Vivacious center

I remember playing netdoom in an internet cafe in Berbera around then, it was 180.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2)#48970015)



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Date: May 28th, 2025 8:54 PM
Author: duck-like shrine

the belgian crime drama 'Maldoror' about the marc dutroux case.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2)#48969260)



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Date: May 29th, 2025 4:08 AM
Author: Wild lascivious native

I feel like that’s too well known to even bother discussing

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2)#48969800)



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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:14 AM
Author: Flatulent theater

Is The Departed set in the 1990s? Seemed to be based on the tech used

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2)#48969841)



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Date: May 29th, 2025 6:44 AM
Author: Maniacal topaz pozpig

No. They were clearly using early 2000s era phones and using the number pad for texting. Also Alec Baldwins character mentions the Patriot Act

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2)#48969890)



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Date: May 29th, 2025 6:44 AM
Author: Flatulent theater

tyvmft

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2)#48969893)



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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:25 AM
Author: misunderstood dysfunction

The Creek, the in-universe remake of Season 1 of Dawson's Creek.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2)#48969850)



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Date: June 3rd, 2025 1:22 AM
Author: floppy sickened hissy fit parlor

Harry Potter

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2)#48982501)



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Date: June 3rd, 2025 3:07 AM
Author: Scarlet swashbuckling spot

The OJ Simpson miniseries that was on FX a few years ago - the drama with Cuba Gooding Jr. as OJ, not the documentary one.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2)#48982587)



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Date: June 3rd, 2025 10:09 AM
Author: Wild lascivious native

Good one

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2)#48983011)



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Date: June 3rd, 2025 11:41 AM
Author: Bright set



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Date: June 7th, 2025 4:39 AM
Author: twisted boyish pistol

tv show but derry girls.

wife insisted i watch it. i thought it would suck but it’s 180

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2)#48994100)



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Date: June 8th, 2025 8:34 PM
Author: floppy sickened hissy fit parlor

It’s criminally underrated

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2)#48997950)



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Date: June 9th, 2025 11:12 AM
Author: twisted boyish pistol



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