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

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Flickering Flirting Headpube
  05/27/25
Big Lebowski almost qualifies, released in 1998 but set in 1...
Tripping spruce business firm haunted graveyard
  05/27/25
Who even watches these anymore?
Supple International Law Enforcement Agency
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I still watch Film
diverse digit ratio
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Flickering Flirting Headpube
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but yet you know nothing of it
yapping spectacular yarmulke doctorate
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Sir, I attended the Werner Herzog Film Seminar, pretty sure ...
diverse digit ratio
  05/28/25
mean girls was released in 2004 but feels older imo
disturbing doobsian forum filthpig
  05/27/25
True Detective season one
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Dull Affirmative Action Mother
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Best answer so far
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tp
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The segways are the second biggest unresolved mystery after ...
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Alpha Dog pops into mind first
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(Nick Cassavetes) (JT)
Aromatic sweet tailpipe
  05/29/25
There are not a lot - certainly no great films. Add The F...
Flickering Flirting Headpube
  05/27/25
How to train your dragon
Supple International Law Enforcement Agency
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social network.
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Wolf of Wall Street
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Dull Affirmative Action Mother
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Mostly an 80s movie though.
Flickering Flirting Headpube
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Speed
Canary Multi-colored Garrison Cuckoldry
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I don’t think 1994’s Speed meets one of OP&rsquo...
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Nigger Feet
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"period" is a gross word.
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The Diaper
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I think this has to do with Klosterman’s theory about ...
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The Queen (2006) The Fighter (2010) Erin Brocovich (2000) ...
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Thanks for asking Chat to give you answers
Flickering Flirting Headpube
  05/28/25
Doesn't qualify with your parameters but Clerks is classic 9...
blue knife locale
  05/27/25
Yes, but not a period piece. Lots of movies reflect their t...
Flickering Flirting Headpube
  05/28/25
I think Superbad is set in the 2000s but it has a 90s aesthe...
Flickering Flirting Headpube
  05/28/25
Same for Napoleon dynamite Technically set in 2003 but ru...
disturbing doobsian forum filthpig
  05/28/25
Good one
Flickering Flirting Headpube
  05/28/25
lilo and stitch for the same reason
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flesh stage
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Those tankard bracelets and Deb’s hair are incredibly ...
Flickering Flirting Headpube
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Road Trip
Canary Multi-colored Garrison Cuckoldry
  05/28/25
this is difficult imo because 9/11 really wiped clean our me...
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Dull Affirmative Action Mother
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Pain & Gain Mid90s The Informant!
Cerebral sneaky criminal piazza
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Pain & Gain is probably the best answer ITT
at-the-ready appetizing principal's office
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Im a Curator
Cerebral sneaky criminal piazza
  05/29/25
Three Kings
pea-brained rigpig
  05/28/25
1999
Cerebral sneaky criminal piazza
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One Day (2011) Love and Other Drugs (2010)
Hot ruby french chef
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Black Hawk Down
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this
provocative dead dysfunction
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Lot of nostalgia for 1993 Somalia
Flickering Flirting Headpube
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I remember playing netdoom in an internet cafe in Berbera ar...
diverse digit ratio
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the belgian crime drama 'Maldoror' about the marc dutroux ca...
heady wine address
  05/28/25
I feel like that’s too well known to even bother discu...
Flickering Flirting Headpube
  05/29/25
Is The Departed set in the 1990s? Seemed to be based on the ...
provocative dead dysfunction
  05/29/25
No. They were clearly using early 2000s era phones and using...
Canary Multi-colored Garrison Cuckoldry
  05/29/25
tyvmft
provocative dead dysfunction
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The Creek, the in-universe remake of Season 1 of Dawson's Cr...
Azure juggernaut sanctuary
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Harry Potter
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The OJ Simpson miniseries that was on FX a few years ago - t...
White codepig coffee pot
  06/03/25
Good one
Flickering Flirting Headpube
  06/03/25
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at-the-ready appetizing principal's office
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tv show but derry girls. wife insisted i watch it. i tho...
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  06/07/25
It’s criminally underrated
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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:15 AM
Author: Flickering Flirting Headpube



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:30 AM
Author: Tripping spruce business firm haunted graveyard

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

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:31 AM
Author: Supple International Law Enforcement Agency

Who even watches these anymore?

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:31 AM
Author: diverse digit ratio

I still watch Film

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: Dark Fantasy-prone Masturbator



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: Flickering Flirting Headpube



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:29 PM
Author: yapping spectacular yarmulke doctorate

but yet you know nothing of it

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:33 AM
Author: diverse digit ratio

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: disturbing doobsian forum filthpig

mean girls was released in 2004 but feels older imo

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:34 AM
Author: Startled vibrant electric furnace puppy

True Detective season one



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:22 PM
Author: Dull Affirmative Action Mother



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:02 PM
Author: Flickering Flirting Headpube

Best answer so far

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:48 AM
Author: provocative dead dysfunction



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:23 PM
Author: snowy den



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:28 PM
Author: Dark Fantasy-prone Masturbator

tp

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:39 PM
Author: Dull Affirmative Action Mother



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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:52 AM
Author: Flickering Flirting Headpube

The segways are the second biggest unresolved mystery after the lawnmower

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:34 AM
Author: pea-brained rigpig



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:38 AM
Author: Crystalline stage pozpig

Alpha Dog pops into mind first

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:44 AM
Author: Aromatic sweet tailpipe

(Nick Cassavetes)

(JT)

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:19 PM
Author: Flickering Flirting Headpube

There are not a lot - certainly no great films.

Add The Fighter and Spring Breakers

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:22 PM
Author: Supple International Law Enforcement Agency

How to train your dragon

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:23 PM
Author: dashing deranged bbw internal respiration

social network.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:44 PM
Author: indigo motley azn

Wolf of Wall Street

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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:23 PM
Author: rebellious state old irish cottage



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:24 PM
Author: Dull Affirmative Action Mother



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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:58 PM
Author: Flickering Flirting Headpube

Mostly an 80s movie though.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:45 PM
Author: Canary Multi-colored Garrison Cuckoldry

Speed

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: Flickering Flirting Headpube

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

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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:24 PM
Author: Dull Affirmative Action Mother

Autoadmit.com

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: Supple International Law Enforcement Agency

Nigger Feet

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: Shimmering marketing idea base

"period" is a gross word.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: Dark Fantasy-prone Masturbator

The Diaper

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:39 PM
Author: Dull Affirmative Action Mother



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: Flickering Flirting Headpube

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.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: Dark Fantasy-prone Masturbator



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:08 PM
Author: Dull Affirmative Action Mother



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:44 AM
Author: rebellious state old irish cottage



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:49 AM
Author: Dull Affirmative Action Mother



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:18 PM
Author: brass cracking psychic

The Queen (2006)

The Fighter (2010)

Erin Brocovich (2000)

I, Tonya (2017)

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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:50 AM
Author: Flickering Flirting Headpube

Thanks for asking Chat to give you answers

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:03 PM
Author: blue knife locale

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

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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:52 AM
Author: Flickering Flirting Headpube

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: Flickering Flirting Headpube

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: disturbing doobsian forum filthpig

Same for Napoleon dynamite

Technically set in 2003 but rural Idaho was still in 1990

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:43 AM
Author: Flickering Flirting Headpube

Good one

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:52 AM
Author: blathering gold church building

lilo and stitch for the same reason

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:55 AM
Author: Dull Affirmative Action Mother



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Date: June 7th, 2025 4:43 AM
Author: flesh stage



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Date: June 14th, 2025 10:02 AM
Author: Flickering Flirting Headpube

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: Canary Multi-colored Garrison Cuckoldry

Road Trip

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:04 AM
Author: charismatic chartreuse party of the first part

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

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:14 AM
Author: Dull Affirmative Action Mother



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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:10 AM
Author: Cerebral sneaky criminal piazza

Pain & Gain

Mid90s

The Informant!

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Date: May 29th, 2025 4:23 AM
Author: at-the-ready appetizing principal's office

Pain & Gain is probably the best answer ITT

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Date: May 29th, 2025 7:11 AM
Author: Cerebral sneaky criminal piazza

Im a Curator

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:35 AM
Author: pea-brained rigpig

Three Kings

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:38 AM
Author: Cerebral sneaky criminal piazza

1999

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:44 AM
Author: Hot ruby french chef

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: Bossy Rehab Therapy

Black Hawk Down

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:13 AM
Author: provocative dead dysfunction

this

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Date: May 29th, 2025 7:49 AM
Author: Flickering Flirting Headpube

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: diverse digit ratio

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: heady wine address

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: Flickering Flirting Headpube

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

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:14 AM
Author: provocative dead dysfunction

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

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Date: May 29th, 2025 6:44 AM
Author: Canary Multi-colored Garrison Cuckoldry

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

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Date: May 29th, 2025 6:44 AM
Author: provocative dead dysfunction

tyvmft

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:25 AM
Author: Azure juggernaut sanctuary

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

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Date: June 3rd, 2025 1:22 AM
Author: vermilion passionate gas station mad cow disease

Harry Potter

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Date: June 3rd, 2025 3:07 AM
Author: White codepig coffee pot

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: Flickering Flirting Headpube

Good one

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Date: June 3rd, 2025 11:41 AM
Author: at-the-ready appetizing principal's office



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Date: June 7th, 2025 4:39 AM
Author: Fear-inspiring stimulating site keepsake machete

tv show but derry girls.

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

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Date: June 8th, 2025 8:34 PM
Author: vermilion passionate gas station mad cow disease

It’s criminally underrated

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Date: June 9th, 2025 11:12 AM
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