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

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Ruddy prole yarmulke
  05/27/25
Big Lebowski almost qualifies, released in 1998 but set in 1...
Dull soul-stirring faggotry
  05/27/25
Who even watches these anymore?
White Office Kitty
  05/27/25
I still watch Film
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Ruddy prole yarmulke
  05/27/25
but yet you know nothing of it
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  05/27/25
Sir, I attended the Werner Herzog Film Seminar, pretty sure ...
hairraiser hateful mother toaster
  05/28/25
mean girls was released in 2004 but feels older imo
Silver shrine
  05/27/25
True Detective season one
coral histrionic den love of her life
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  05/27/25
Best answer so far
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The segways are the second biggest unresolved mystery after ...
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Alpha Dog pops into mind first
mind-boggling scourge upon the earth
  05/27/25
(Nick Cassavetes) (JT)
rusted rigor
  05/29/25
There are not a lot - certainly no great films. Add The F...
Ruddy prole yarmulke
  05/27/25
How to train your dragon
White Office Kitty
  05/27/25
social network.
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Wolf of Wall Street
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anal cream water buffalo dopamine
  05/27/25
Mostly an 80s movie though.
Ruddy prole yarmulke
  05/27/25
Speed
orchid coffee pot wagecucks
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I don’t think 1994’s Speed meets one of OP&rsquo...
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  05/27/25
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Nigger Feet
White Office Kitty
  05/27/25
"period" is a gross word.
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  05/27/25
The Diaper
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I think this has to do with Klosterman’s theory about ...
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  05/27/25
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The Queen (2006) The Fighter (2010) Erin Brocovich (2000) ...
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  05/27/25
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Ruddy prole yarmulke
  05/28/25
Doesn't qualify with your parameters but Clerks is classic 9...
vibrant transparent dysfunction volcanic crater
  05/27/25
Yes, but not a period piece. Lots of movies reflect their t...
Ruddy prole yarmulke
  05/28/25
I think Superbad is set in the 2000s but it has a 90s aesthe...
Ruddy prole yarmulke
  05/28/25
Same for Napoleon dynamite Technically set in 2003 but ru...
Silver shrine
  05/28/25
Good one
Ruddy prole yarmulke
  05/28/25
lilo and stitch for the same reason
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anal cream water buffalo dopamine
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violent base
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Those tankard bracelets and Deb’s hair are incredibly ...
Ruddy prole yarmulke
  06/14/25
Road Trip
orchid coffee pot wagecucks
  05/28/25
this is difficult imo because 9/11 really wiped clean our me...
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  05/28/25
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anal cream water buffalo dopamine
  05/28/25
Pain & Gain Mid90s The Informant!
unhinged milky lay
  05/28/25
Pain & Gain is probably the best answer ITT
multi-colored lilac heaven sound barrier
  05/29/25
Im a Curator
unhinged milky lay
  05/29/25
Three Kings
Confused Lime Gay Wizard
  05/28/25
1999
unhinged milky lay
  05/28/25
One Day (2011) Love and Other Drugs (2010)
massive codepig
  05/28/25
Black Hawk Down
Cobalt bonkers voyeur
  05/28/25
this
tantric stirring piazza
  05/29/25
Lot of nostalgia for 1993 Somalia
Ruddy prole yarmulke
  05/29/25
I remember playing netdoom in an internet cafe in Berbera ar...
hairraiser hateful mother toaster
  05/29/25
the belgian crime drama 'Maldoror' about the marc dutroux ca...
black hall
  05/28/25
I feel like that’s too well known to even bother discu...
Ruddy prole yarmulke
  05/29/25
Is The Departed set in the 1990s? Seemed to be based on the ...
tantric stirring piazza
  05/29/25
No. They were clearly using early 2000s era phones and using...
orchid coffee pot wagecucks
  05/29/25
tyvmft
tantric stirring piazza
  05/29/25
The Creek, the in-universe remake of Season 1 of Dawson's Cr...
Metal hospital private investor
  05/29/25
Harry Potter
umber vivacious circlehead
  06/03/25
The OJ Simpson miniseries that was on FX a few years ago - t...
hideous topaz queen of the night
  06/03/25
Good one
Ruddy prole yarmulke
  06/03/25
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multi-colored lilac heaven sound barrier
  06/03/25
tv show but derry girls. wife insisted i watch it. i tho...
henna garrison
  06/07/25
It’s criminally underrated
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  06/08/25
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henna garrison
  06/09/25


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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:15 AM
Author: Ruddy prole yarmulke



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:30 AM
Author: Dull soul-stirring faggotry

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

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:31 AM
Author: White Office Kitty

Who even watches these anymore?

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:31 AM
Author: hairraiser hateful mother toaster

I still watch Film

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: Fiercely-loyal 180 meetinghouse



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: Ruddy prole yarmulke



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:29 PM
Author: bateful ticket booth laser beams

but yet you know nothing of it

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:33 AM
Author: hairraiser hateful mother toaster

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: Silver shrine

mean girls was released in 2004 but feels older imo

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:34 AM
Author: coral histrionic den love of her life

True Detective season one



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:22 PM
Author: anal cream water buffalo dopamine



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:02 PM
Author: Ruddy prole yarmulke

Best answer so far

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:48 AM
Author: tantric stirring piazza



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:23 PM
Author: Laughsome church building reading party



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:28 PM
Author: Fiercely-loyal 180 meetinghouse

tp

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:39 PM
Author: anal cream water buffalo dopamine



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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:52 AM
Author: Ruddy prole yarmulke

The segways are the second biggest unresolved mystery after the lawnmower

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:34 AM
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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:38 AM
Author: mind-boggling scourge upon the earth

Alpha Dog pops into mind first

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:44 AM
Author: rusted rigor

(Nick Cassavetes)

(JT)

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:19 PM
Author: Ruddy prole yarmulke

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: White Office Kitty

How to train your dragon

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:23 PM
Author: Blue Spectacular Nursing Home

social network.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:44 PM
Author: beady-eyed judgmental black woman

Wolf of Wall Street

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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:23 PM
Author: Geriatric state pocket flask



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:24 PM
Author: anal cream water buffalo dopamine



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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:58 PM
Author: Ruddy prole yarmulke

Mostly an 80s movie though.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:45 PM
Author: orchid coffee pot wagecucks

Speed

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: Ruddy prole yarmulke

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: anal cream water buffalo dopamine

Autoadmit.com

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: White Office Kitty

Nigger Feet

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: Lascivious Property Elastic Band

"period" is a gross word.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: Fiercely-loyal 180 meetinghouse

The Diaper

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:39 PM
Author: anal cream water buffalo dopamine



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: Ruddy prole yarmulke

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: Fiercely-loyal 180 meetinghouse



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:08 PM
Author: anal cream water buffalo dopamine



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:44 AM
Author: Geriatric state pocket flask



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:49 AM
Author: anal cream water buffalo dopamine



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:18 PM
Author: Amethyst glittery trump supporter resort

The Queen (2006)

The Fighter (2010)

Erin Brocovich (2000)

I, Tonya (2017)

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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:50 AM
Author: Ruddy prole yarmulke

Thanks for asking Chat to give you answers

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:03 PM
Author: vibrant transparent dysfunction volcanic crater

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

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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:52 AM
Author: Ruddy prole yarmulke

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: Ruddy prole yarmulke

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.

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Date: May 28th, 2025 7:05 AM
Author: Silver shrine

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: Ruddy prole yarmulke

Good one

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:52 AM
Author: impertinent scarlet indian lodge

lilo and stitch for the same reason

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:55 AM
Author: anal cream water buffalo dopamine



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Date: June 7th, 2025 4:43 AM
Author: violent base



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Date: June 14th, 2025 10:02 AM
Author: Ruddy prole yarmulke

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: orchid coffee pot wagecucks

Road Trip

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:04 AM
Author: swashbuckling sable box office

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: anal cream water buffalo dopamine



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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:10 AM
Author: unhinged milky lay

Pain & Gain

Mid90s

The Informant!

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Date: May 29th, 2025 4:23 AM
Author: multi-colored lilac heaven sound barrier

Pain & Gain is probably the best answer ITT

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Date: May 29th, 2025 7:11 AM
Author: unhinged milky lay

Im a Curator

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:35 AM
Author: Confused Lime Gay Wizard

Three Kings

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:38 AM
Author: unhinged milky lay

1999

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:44 AM
Author: massive codepig

One Day (2011)

Love and Other Drugs (2010)

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Date: May 28th, 2025 8:48 PM
Author: Cobalt bonkers voyeur

Black Hawk Down

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:13 AM
Author: tantric stirring piazza

this

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Date: May 29th, 2025 7:49 AM
Author: Ruddy prole yarmulke

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: hairraiser hateful mother toaster

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: black hall

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: Ruddy prole yarmulke

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

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:14 AM
Author: tantric stirring piazza

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: orchid coffee pot wagecucks

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: tantric stirring piazza

tyvmft

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:25 AM
Author: Metal hospital private investor

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: umber vivacious circlehead

Harry Potter

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Date: June 3rd, 2025 3:07 AM
Author: hideous topaz queen of the night

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

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Date: June 3rd, 2025 10:09 AM
Author: Ruddy prole yarmulke

Good one

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Date: June 3rd, 2025 11:41 AM
Author: multi-colored lilac heaven sound barrier



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Date: June 7th, 2025 4:39 AM
Author: henna garrison

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: umber vivacious circlehead

It’s criminally underrated

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Date: June 9th, 2025 11:12 AM
Author: henna garrison



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