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

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Galvanic offensive site
  05/27/25
Big Lebowski almost qualifies, released in 1998 but set in 1...
Curious pale kitchen
  05/27/25
Who even watches these anymore?
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  05/27/25
I still watch Film
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  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 ...
Iridescent corner azn
  05/28/25
mean girls was released in 2004 but feels older imo
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  05/27/25
True Detective season one
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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
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(Nick Cassavetes) (JT)
angry cruel-hearted business firm faggotry
  05/29/25
There are not a lot - certainly no great films. Add The F...
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  05/27/25
How to train your dragon
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social network.
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Wolf of Wall Street
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Yellow Razzle-dazzle Fanboi
  05/27/25
Mostly an 80s movie though.
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Speed
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  05/27/25
I don’t think 1994’s Speed meets one of OP&rsquo...
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Nigger Feet
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  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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The Queen (2006) The Fighter (2010) Erin Brocovich (2000) ...
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Thanks for asking Chat to give you answers
Galvanic offensive site
  05/28/25
Doesn't qualify with your parameters but Clerks is classic 9...
Gaped wine blood rage
  05/27/25
Yes, but not a period piece. Lots of movies reflect their t...
Galvanic offensive site
  05/28/25
I think Superbad is set in the 2000s but it has a 90s aesthe...
Galvanic offensive site
  05/28/25
Same for Napoleon dynamite Technically set in 2003 but ru...
Charcoal turdskin
  05/28/25
Good one
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lilo and stitch for the same reason
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Those tankard bracelets and Deb’s hair are incredibly ...
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Road Trip
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  05/28/25
this is difficult imo because 9/11 really wiped clean our me...
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Yellow Razzle-dazzle Fanboi
  05/28/25
Pain & Gain Mid90s The Informant!
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  05/28/25
Pain & Gain is probably the best answer ITT
beady-eyed tank
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Im a Curator
vigorous orchestra pit
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Three Kings
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1999
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One Day (2011) Love and Other Drugs (2010)
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Black Hawk Down
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this
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Lot of nostalgia for 1993 Somalia
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I remember playing netdoom in an internet cafe in Berbera ar...
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  05/29/25
the belgian crime drama 'Maldoror' about the marc dutroux ca...
greedy sanctuary giraffe
  05/28/25
I feel like that’s too well known to even bother discu...
Galvanic offensive site
  05/29/25
Is The Departed set in the 1990s? Seemed to be based on the ...
hairless zombie-like dilemma
  05/29/25
No. They were clearly using early 2000s era phones and using...
self-centered hominid
  05/29/25
tyvmft
hairless zombie-like dilemma
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The Creek, the in-universe remake of Season 1 of Dawson's Cr...
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Harry Potter
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  06/03/25
The OJ Simpson miniseries that was on FX a few years ago - t...
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  06/03/25
Good one
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beady-eyed tank
  06/03/25
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: Galvanic offensive site



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:30 AM
Author: Curious pale kitchen

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

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:31 AM
Author: Jet-lagged cordovan public bath yarmulke

Who even watches these anymore?

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:31 AM
Author: Iridescent corner azn

I still watch Film

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: Electric School



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:29 PM
Author: french therapy

but yet you know nothing of it

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:33 AM
Author: Iridescent corner azn

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: Charcoal turdskin

mean girls was released in 2004 but feels older imo

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:34 AM
Author: Frozen Dashing Nursing Home

True Detective season one



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:22 PM
Author: Yellow Razzle-dazzle Fanboi



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:02 PM
Author: Galvanic offensive site

Best answer so far

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:48 AM
Author: hairless zombie-like dilemma



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:23 PM
Author: Razzmatazz coldplay fan



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:28 PM
Author: Electric School

tp

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:39 PM
Author: Yellow Razzle-dazzle Fanboi



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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:52 AM
Author: Galvanic offensive site

The segways are the second biggest unresolved mystery after the lawnmower

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:34 AM
Author: Out-of-control spot new version



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:38 AM
Author: chocolate medicated regret

Alpha Dog pops into mind first

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:44 AM
Author: angry cruel-hearted business firm faggotry

(Nick Cassavetes)

(JT)

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:19 PM
Author: Galvanic offensive site

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: Jet-lagged cordovan public bath yarmulke

How to train your dragon

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:23 PM
Author: insanely creepy federal point dragon

social network.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:44 PM
Author: Marvelous Painfully Honest Persian Cumskin

Wolf of Wall Street

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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:23 PM
Author: talented tanning salon police squad



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:24 PM
Author: Yellow Razzle-dazzle Fanboi



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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:58 PM
Author: Galvanic offensive site

Mostly an 80s movie though.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:45 PM
Author: self-centered hominid

Speed

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: Galvanic offensive site

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: Yellow Razzle-dazzle Fanboi

Autoadmit.com

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: Jet-lagged cordovan public bath yarmulke

Nigger Feet

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: Mischievous genital piercing den

"period" is a gross word.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: Electric School

The Diaper

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:39 PM
Author: Yellow Razzle-dazzle Fanboi



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: Galvanic offensive site

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: Electric School



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:08 PM
Author: Yellow Razzle-dazzle Fanboi



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:44 AM
Author: talented tanning salon police squad



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:49 AM
Author: Yellow Razzle-dazzle Fanboi



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:18 PM
Author: Balding avocado organic girlfriend jewess

The Queen (2006)

The Fighter (2010)

Erin Brocovich (2000)

I, Tonya (2017)

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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:50 AM
Author: Galvanic offensive site

Thanks for asking Chat to give you answers

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:03 PM
Author: Gaped wine blood rage

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

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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:52 AM
Author: Galvanic offensive site

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.

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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:54 AM
Author: Galvanic offensive site

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: Charcoal turdskin

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: Galvanic offensive site

Good one

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:52 AM
Author: Razzle ceo

lilo and stitch for the same reason

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:55 AM
Author: Yellow Razzle-dazzle Fanboi



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Date: June 7th, 2025 4:43 AM
Author: Twinkling resort people who are hurt



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Date: June 14th, 2025 10:02 AM
Author: Galvanic offensive site

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: self-centered hominid

Road Trip

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:04 AM
Author: Titillating Private Investor National Security Agency

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: Yellow Razzle-dazzle Fanboi



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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:10 AM
Author: vigorous orchestra pit

Pain & Gain

Mid90s

The Informant!

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Date: May 29th, 2025 4:23 AM
Author: beady-eyed tank

Pain & Gain is probably the best answer ITT

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Date: May 29th, 2025 7:11 AM
Author: vigorous orchestra pit

Im a Curator

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:35 AM
Author: Out-of-control spot new version

Three Kings

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:38 AM
Author: vigorous orchestra pit

1999

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:44 AM
Author: adventurous up-to-no-good double fault boistinker

One Day (2011)

Love and Other Drugs (2010)

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Date: May 28th, 2025 8:48 PM
Author: wonderful magenta mediation puppy

Black Hawk Down

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:13 AM
Author: hairless zombie-like dilemma

this

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Date: May 29th, 2025 7:49 AM
Author: Galvanic offensive site

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: Iridescent corner azn

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: greedy sanctuary giraffe

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: Galvanic offensive site

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

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:14 AM
Author: hairless zombie-like dilemma

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: self-centered hominid

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: hairless zombie-like dilemma

tyvmft

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:25 AM
Author: domesticated hairy legs lodge

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: Slimy Dopamine

Harry Potter

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Date: June 3rd, 2025 3:07 AM
Author: racy hyperactive shrine liquid oxygen

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: Galvanic offensive site

Good one

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Date: June 3rd, 2025 11:41 AM
Author: beady-eyed tank



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Date: June 7th, 2025 4:39 AM
Author: fiercely-loyal impertinent stage generalized bond

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: Slimy Dopamine

It’s criminally underrated

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Date: June 9th, 2025 11:12 AM
Author: fiercely-loyal impertinent stage generalized bond



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