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

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Lake Talented Pit Striped Hyena
  05/27/25
Big Lebowski almost qualifies, released in 1998 but set in 1...
transparent multi-colored theatre
  05/27/25
Who even watches these anymore?
Arousing Lodge
  05/27/25
I still watch Film
bossy turquoise business firm really tough guy
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chocolate point
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Lake Talented Pit Striped Hyena
  05/27/25
but yet you know nothing of it
Big den
  05/27/25
Sir, I attended the Werner Herzog Film Seminar, pretty sure ...
bossy turquoise business firm really tough guy
  05/28/25
mean girls was released in 2004 but feels older imo
Provocative place of business school
  05/27/25
True Detective season one
light racy background story
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Hairraiser sound barrier
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Best answer so far
Lake Talented Pit Striped Hyena
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Chestnut Supple Chapel Tattoo
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Magenta gunner orchestra pit
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tp
chocolate point
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Hairraiser sound barrier
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The segways are the second biggest unresolved mystery after ...
Lake Talented Pit Striped Hyena
  05/28/25
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Rose toilet seat church
  05/28/25
Alpha Dog pops into mind first
arrogant black state filthpig
  05/27/25
(Nick Cassavetes) (JT)
dashing ratface stage
  05/29/25
There are not a lot - certainly no great films. Add The F...
Lake Talented Pit Striped Hyena
  05/27/25
How to train your dragon
Arousing Lodge
  05/27/25
social network.
Snowy Exhilarant Hell Coffee Pot
  05/27/25
Wolf of Wall Street
galvanic french address
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Heady ape range
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Hairraiser sound barrier
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Mostly an 80s movie though.
Lake Talented Pit Striped Hyena
  05/27/25
Speed
marvelous mood parlour
  05/27/25
I don’t think 1994’s Speed meets one of OP&rsquo...
Lake Talented Pit Striped Hyena
  05/27/25
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Hairraiser sound barrier
  05/27/25
Nigger Feet
Arousing Lodge
  05/27/25
"period" is a gross word.
Flesh useless brakes
  05/27/25
The Diaper
chocolate point
  05/27/25
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Hairraiser sound barrier
  05/27/25
I think this has to do with Klosterman’s theory about ...
Lake Talented Pit Striped Hyena
  05/27/25
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chocolate point
  05/27/25
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Hairraiser sound barrier
  05/27/25
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Heady ape range
  05/28/25
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Hairraiser sound barrier
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The Queen (2006) The Fighter (2010) Erin Brocovich (2000) ...
Shivering slap-happy trailer park clown
  05/27/25
Thanks for asking Chat to give you answers
Lake Talented Pit Striped Hyena
  05/28/25
Doesn't qualify with your parameters but Clerks is classic 9...
boyish honey-headed macaca
  05/27/25
Yes, but not a period piece. Lots of movies reflect their t...
Lake Talented Pit Striped Hyena
  05/28/25
I think Superbad is set in the 2000s but it has a 90s aesthe...
Lake Talented Pit Striped Hyena
  05/28/25
Same for Napoleon dynamite Technically set in 2003 but ru...
Provocative place of business school
  05/28/25
Good one
Lake Talented Pit Striped Hyena
  05/28/25
lilo and stitch for the same reason
soul-stirring costumed theater
  05/28/25
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Hairraiser sound barrier
  05/28/25
...
sooty comical base goal in life
  06/07/25
Those tankard bracelets and Deb’s hair are incredibly ...
Lake Talented Pit Striped Hyena
  06/14/25
Road Trip
marvelous mood parlour
  05/28/25
this is difficult imo because 9/11 really wiped clean our me...
Silver Knife Blood Rage
  05/28/25
...
Hairraiser sound barrier
  05/28/25
Pain & Gain Mid90s The Informant!
passionate becky
  05/28/25
Pain & Gain is probably the best answer ITT
Slate Library
  05/29/25
Im a Curator
passionate becky
  05/29/25
Three Kings
Rose toilet seat church
  05/28/25
1999
passionate becky
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One Day (2011) Love and Other Drugs (2010)
salmon cowardly nibblets
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Black Hawk Down
misunderstood regret
  05/28/25
this
Chestnut Supple Chapel Tattoo
  05/29/25
Lot of nostalgia for 1993 Somalia
Lake Talented Pit Striped Hyena
  05/29/25
I remember playing netdoom in an internet cafe in Berbera ar...
bossy turquoise business firm really tough guy
  05/29/25
the belgian crime drama 'Maldoror' about the marc dutroux ca...
glittery flushed foreskin
  05/28/25
I feel like that’s too well known to even bother discu...
Lake Talented Pit Striped Hyena
  05/29/25
Is The Departed set in the 1990s? Seemed to be based on the ...
Chestnut Supple Chapel Tattoo
  05/29/25
No. They were clearly using early 2000s era phones and using...
marvelous mood parlour
  05/29/25
tyvmft
Chestnut Supple Chapel Tattoo
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The Creek, the in-universe remake of Season 1 of Dawson's Cr...
Laughsome Chest-beating Potus Hospital
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Harry Potter
swashbuckling party of the first part hissy fit
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The OJ Simpson miniseries that was on FX a few years ago - t...
cracking twisted twinkling uncleanness pozpig
  06/03/25
Good one
Lake Talented Pit Striped Hyena
  06/03/25
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Slate Library
  06/03/25
tv show but derry girls. wife insisted i watch it. i tho...
Spruce market cuck
  06/07/25
It’s criminally underrated
swashbuckling party of the first part hissy fit
  06/08/25
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Spruce market cuck
  06/09/25


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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:15 AM
Author: Lake Talented Pit Striped Hyena



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:30 AM
Author: transparent multi-colored theatre

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: Arousing Lodge

Who even watches these anymore?

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:31 AM
Author: bossy turquoise business firm really tough guy

I still watch Film

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: chocolate point



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: Lake Talented Pit Striped Hyena



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:29 PM
Author: Big den

but yet you know nothing of it

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:33 AM
Author: bossy turquoise business firm really tough guy

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: Provocative place of business school

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: light racy background story

True Detective season one



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:22 PM
Author: Hairraiser sound barrier



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:02 PM
Author: Lake Talented Pit Striped Hyena

Best answer so far

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:48 AM
Author: Chestnut Supple Chapel Tattoo



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:23 PM
Author: Magenta gunner orchestra pit



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:28 PM
Author: chocolate point

tp

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:39 PM
Author: Hairraiser sound barrier



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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:52 AM
Author: Lake Talented Pit Striped Hyena

The segways are the second biggest unresolved mystery after the lawnmower

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:34 AM
Author: Rose toilet seat church



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:38 AM
Author: arrogant black state filthpig

Alpha Dog pops into mind first

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:44 AM
Author: dashing ratface stage

(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: Lake Talented Pit Striped Hyena

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: Arousing Lodge

How to train your dragon

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:23 PM
Author: Snowy Exhilarant Hell Coffee Pot

social network.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:44 PM
Author: galvanic french address

Wolf of Wall Street

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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:23 PM
Author: Heady ape range



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:24 PM
Author: Hairraiser sound barrier



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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:58 PM
Author: Lake Talented Pit Striped Hyena

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: marvelous mood parlour

Speed

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: Lake Talented Pit Striped Hyena

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: Hairraiser sound barrier

Autoadmit.com

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: Arousing Lodge

Nigger Feet

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: Flesh useless brakes

"period" is a gross word.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: chocolate point

The Diaper

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:39 PM
Author: Hairraiser sound barrier



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: Lake Talented Pit Striped Hyena

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: chocolate point



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:08 PM
Author: Hairraiser sound barrier



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:44 AM
Author: Heady ape range



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:49 AM
Author: Hairraiser sound barrier



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:18 PM
Author: Shivering slap-happy trailer park clown

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: Lake Talented Pit Striped Hyena

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: boyish honey-headed macaca

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: Lake Talented Pit Striped Hyena

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: Lake Talented Pit Striped Hyena

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: Provocative place of business school

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: Lake Talented Pit Striped Hyena

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: soul-stirring costumed theater

lilo and stitch for the same reason

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:55 AM
Author: Hairraiser sound barrier



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Date: June 7th, 2025 4:43 AM
Author: sooty comical base goal in life



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Date: June 14th, 2025 10:02 AM
Author: Lake Talented Pit Striped Hyena

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: marvelous mood parlour

Road Trip

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:04 AM
Author: Silver Knife Blood Rage

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: Hairraiser sound barrier



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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:10 AM
Author: passionate becky

Pain & Gain

Mid90s

The Informant!

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Date: May 29th, 2025 4:23 AM
Author: Slate Library

Pain & Gain is probably the best answer ITT

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Date: May 29th, 2025 7:11 AM
Author: passionate becky

Im a Curator

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:35 AM
Author: Rose toilet seat church

Three Kings

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:38 AM
Author: passionate becky

1999

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:44 AM
Author: salmon cowardly nibblets

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: misunderstood regret

Black Hawk Down

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:13 AM
Author: Chestnut Supple Chapel Tattoo

this

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Date: May 29th, 2025 7:49 AM
Author: Lake Talented Pit Striped Hyena

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: bossy turquoise business firm really tough guy

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: glittery flushed foreskin

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: Lake Talented Pit Striped Hyena

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: Chestnut Supple Chapel Tattoo

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: marvelous mood parlour

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: Chestnut Supple Chapel Tattoo

tyvmft

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:25 AM
Author: Laughsome Chest-beating Potus Hospital

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: swashbuckling party of the first part hissy fit

Harry Potter

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Date: June 3rd, 2025 3:07 AM
Author: cracking twisted twinkling uncleanness pozpig

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: Lake Talented Pit Striped Hyena

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: Slate Library



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Date: June 7th, 2025 4:39 AM
Author: Spruce market cuck

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: swashbuckling party of the first part hissy fit

It’s criminally underrated

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Date: June 9th, 2025 11:12 AM
Author: Spruce market cuck



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