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

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Slate wild stage trump supporter
  05/27/25
Big Lebowski almost qualifies, released in 1998 but set in 1...
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  05/27/25
Who even watches these anymore?
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I still watch Film
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Slate wild stage trump supporter
  05/27/25
but yet you know nothing of it
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Sir, I attended the Werner Herzog Film Seminar, pretty sure ...
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  05/28/25
mean girls was released in 2004 but feels older imo
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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)
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There are not a lot - certainly no great films. Add The F...
Slate wild stage trump supporter
  05/27/25
How to train your dragon
overrated azure generalized bond locale
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social network.
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Wolf of Wall Street
Comical theatre
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underhanded vengeful set
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Mostly an 80s movie though.
Slate wild stage trump supporter
  05/27/25
Speed
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I don’t think 1994’s Speed meets one of OP&rsquo...
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Nigger Feet
overrated azure generalized bond locale
  05/27/25
"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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  05/27/25
Thanks for asking Chat to give you answers
Slate wild stage trump supporter
  05/28/25
Doesn't qualify with your parameters but Clerks is classic 9...
Supple Hell Stock Car
  05/27/25
Yes, but not a period piece. Lots of movies reflect their t...
Slate wild stage trump supporter
  05/28/25
I think Superbad is set in the 2000s but it has a 90s aesthe...
Slate wild stage trump supporter
  05/28/25
Same for Napoleon dynamite Technically set in 2003 but ru...
Very tactful irate site marketing idea
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Good one
Slate wild stage trump supporter
  05/28/25
lilo and stitch for the same reason
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Those tankard bracelets and Deb’s hair are incredibly ...
Slate wild stage trump supporter
  06/14/25
Road Trip
Bespoke dysfunction brethren
  05/28/25
this is difficult imo because 9/11 really wiped clean our me...
Shimmering point
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Charcoal institution water buffalo
  05/28/25
Pain & Gain Mid90s The Informant!
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Pain & Gain is probably the best answer ITT
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Im a Curator
concupiscible aquamarine hissy fit public bath
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Three Kings
hairless principal's office
  05/28/25
1999
concupiscible aquamarine hissy fit public bath
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One Day (2011) Love and Other Drugs (2010)
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Black Hawk Down
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this
Beady-eyed dark state
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Lot of nostalgia for 1993 Somalia
Slate wild stage trump supporter
  05/29/25
I remember playing netdoom in an internet cafe in Berbera ar...
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the belgian crime drama 'Maldoror' about the marc dutroux ca...
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I feel like that’s too well known to even bother discu...
Slate wild stage trump supporter
  05/29/25
Is The Departed set in the 1990s? Seemed to be based on the ...
Beady-eyed dark state
  05/29/25
No. They were clearly using early 2000s era phones and using...
Bespoke dysfunction brethren
  05/29/25
tyvmft
Beady-eyed dark state
  05/29/25
The Creek, the in-universe remake of Season 1 of Dawson's Cr...
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Harry Potter
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The OJ Simpson miniseries that was on FX a few years ago - t...
confused nowag circlehead
  06/03/25
Good one
Slate wild stage trump supporter
  06/03/25
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Charismatic green dilemma
  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: Slate wild stage trump supporter



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:30 AM
Author: Stirring ruby half-breed rigpig

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: overrated azure generalized bond locale

Who even watches these anymore?

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:31 AM
Author: Arousing clown tattoo

I still watch Film

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: motley medicated liquid oxygen friendly grandma



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: Slate wild stage trump supporter



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:29 PM
Author: Cerebral Location

but yet you know nothing of it

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:33 AM
Author: Arousing clown tattoo

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2)#48967267)



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:32 AM
Author: Very tactful irate site marketing idea

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: Tantric Chapel Digit Ratio

True Detective season one



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:22 PM
Author: Charcoal institution water buffalo



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:02 PM
Author: Slate wild stage trump supporter

Best answer so far

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:48 AM
Author: Beady-eyed dark state



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:23 PM
Author: Mind-boggling National Antidepressant Drug



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:28 PM
Author: motley medicated liquid oxygen friendly grandma

tp

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:39 PM
Author: Charcoal institution water buffalo



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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:52 AM
Author: Slate wild stage trump supporter

The segways are the second biggest unresolved mystery after the lawnmower

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:34 AM
Author: hairless principal's office



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:38 AM
Author: buck-toothed sandwich

Alpha Dog pops into mind first

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:44 AM
Author: light aphrodisiac scourge upon the earth area

(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: Slate wild stage trump supporter

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: overrated azure generalized bond locale

How to train your dragon

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:23 PM
Author: Olive fanboi resort

social network.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:44 PM
Author: Comical theatre

Wolf of Wall Street

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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:23 PM
Author: underhanded vengeful set



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:24 PM
Author: Charcoal institution water buffalo



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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:58 PM
Author: Slate wild stage trump supporter

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: Bespoke dysfunction brethren

Speed

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: Slate wild stage trump supporter

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: Charcoal institution water buffalo

Autoadmit.com

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: overrated azure generalized bond locale

Nigger Feet

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: Sticky Navy Boistinker Space

"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: motley medicated liquid oxygen friendly grandma

The Diaper

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:39 PM
Author: Charcoal institution water buffalo



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: Slate wild stage trump supporter

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: motley medicated liquid oxygen friendly grandma



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:08 PM
Author: Charcoal institution water buffalo



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:44 AM
Author: underhanded vengeful set



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:49 AM
Author: Charcoal institution water buffalo



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:18 PM
Author: Mustard filthy station

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: Slate wild stage trump supporter

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: Supple Hell Stock Car

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: Slate wild stage trump supporter

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: Slate wild stage trump supporter

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: Very tactful irate site marketing idea

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: Slate wild stage trump supporter

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: Exciting alcoholic parlor windowlicker

lilo and stitch for the same reason

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:55 AM
Author: Charcoal institution water buffalo



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Date: June 7th, 2025 4:43 AM
Author: Pungent jew theater stage



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Date: June 14th, 2025 10:02 AM
Author: Slate wild stage trump supporter

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: Bespoke dysfunction brethren

Road Trip

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:04 AM
Author: Shimmering point

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: Charcoal institution water buffalo



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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:10 AM
Author: concupiscible aquamarine hissy fit public bath

Pain & Gain

Mid90s

The Informant!

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Date: May 29th, 2025 4:23 AM
Author: Charismatic green dilemma

Pain & Gain is probably the best answer ITT

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Date: May 29th, 2025 7:11 AM
Author: concupiscible aquamarine hissy fit public bath

Im a Curator

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:35 AM
Author: hairless principal's office

Three Kings

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:38 AM
Author: concupiscible aquamarine hissy fit public bath

1999

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:44 AM
Author: mauve address

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: razzle smoky tank kitty

Black Hawk Down

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:13 AM
Author: Beady-eyed dark state

this

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Date: May 29th, 2025 7:49 AM
Author: Slate wild stage trump supporter

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: Arousing clown tattoo

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: Razzle-dazzle beta meetinghouse crotch

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: Slate wild stage trump supporter

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: Beady-eyed dark state

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: Bespoke dysfunction brethren

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: Beady-eyed dark state

tyvmft

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:25 AM
Author: abnormal gas station halford

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: Mentally impaired mental disorder stead

Harry Potter

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Date: June 3rd, 2025 3:07 AM
Author: confused nowag circlehead

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: Slate wild stage trump supporter

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: Charismatic green dilemma



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Date: June 7th, 2025 4:39 AM
Author: Haunting Native Partner

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: Mentally impaired mental disorder stead

It’s criminally underrated

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Date: June 9th, 2025 11:12 AM
Author: Haunting Native Partner



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