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

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Exciting deranged idiot
  05/27/25
Big Lebowski almost qualifies, released in 1998 but set in 1...
Salmon Dopamine
  05/27/25
Who even watches these anymore?
cordovan electric party of the first part
  05/27/25
I still watch Film
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Bat shit crazy mad cow disease
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Exciting deranged idiot
  05/27/25
but yet you know nothing of it
pink pit
  05/27/25
Sir, I attended the Werner Herzog Film Seminar, pretty sure ...
Sick cuckoldry space
  05/28/25
mean girls was released in 2004 but feels older imo
ungodly business firm antidepressant drug
  05/27/25
True Detective season one
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Wild gold cruise ship gunner
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Best answer so far
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startling white depressive locale
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The segways are the second biggest unresolved mystery after ...
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charismatic olive rehab filthpig
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Alpha Dog pops into mind first
Iridescent Internet-worthy Whorehouse
  05/27/25
(Nick Cassavetes) (JT)
chest-beating water buffalo home
  05/29/25
There are not a lot - certainly no great films. Add The F...
Exciting deranged idiot
  05/27/25
How to train your dragon
cordovan electric party of the first part
  05/27/25
social network.
sooty odious faggotry
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Wolf of Wall Street
Mauve chapel
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Buff exhilarant candlestick maker
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Wild gold cruise ship gunner
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Mostly an 80s movie though.
Exciting deranged idiot
  05/27/25
Speed
Swashbuckling Box Office Background Story
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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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Wild gold cruise ship gunner
  05/27/25
Nigger Feet
cordovan electric party of the first part
  05/27/25
"period" is a gross word.
Amber Trip House
  05/27/25
The Diaper
Bat shit crazy mad cow disease
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Wild gold cruise ship gunner
  05/27/25
I think this has to do with Klosterman’s theory about ...
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Wild gold cruise ship gunner
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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
Exciting deranged idiot
  05/28/25
Doesn't qualify with your parameters but Clerks is classic 9...
Thriller bawdyhouse dysfunction
  05/27/25
Yes, but not a period piece. Lots of movies reflect their t...
Exciting deranged idiot
  05/28/25
I think Superbad is set in the 2000s but it has a 90s aesthe...
Exciting deranged idiot
  05/28/25
Same for Napoleon dynamite Technically set in 2003 but ru...
ungodly business firm antidepressant drug
  05/28/25
Good one
Exciting deranged idiot
  05/28/25
lilo and stitch for the same reason
Hateful Chocolate Round Eye
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Wild gold cruise ship gunner
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Coral Infuriating Internal Respiration Abode
  06/07/25
Those tankard bracelets and Deb’s hair are incredibly ...
Exciting deranged idiot
  06/14/25
Road Trip
Swashbuckling Box Office Background Story
  05/28/25
this is difficult imo because 9/11 really wiped clean our me...
ultramarine histrionic fanboi station
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Wild gold cruise ship gunner
  05/28/25
Pain & Gain Mid90s The Informant!
Obsidian kitty cat trailer park
  05/28/25
Pain & Gain is probably the best answer ITT
Rusted property
  05/29/25
Im a Curator
Obsidian kitty cat trailer park
  05/29/25
Three Kings
charismatic olive rehab filthpig
  05/28/25
1999
Obsidian kitty cat trailer park
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One Day (2011) Love and Other Drugs (2010)
Low-t Chad Mexican
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Black Hawk Down
Jet painfully honest step-uncle's house mad-dog skullcap
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this
cracking demanding electric furnace
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Lot of nostalgia for 1993 Somalia
Exciting deranged idiot
  05/29/25
I remember playing netdoom in an internet cafe in Berbera ar...
Sick cuckoldry space
  05/29/25
the belgian crime drama 'Maldoror' about the marc dutroux ca...
marvelous lake piazza
  05/28/25
I feel like that’s too well known to even bother discu...
Exciting deranged idiot
  05/29/25
Is The Departed set in the 1990s? Seemed to be based on the ...
cracking demanding electric furnace
  05/29/25
No. They were clearly using early 2000s era phones and using...
Swashbuckling Box Office Background Story
  05/29/25
tyvmft
cracking demanding electric furnace
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The Creek, the in-universe remake of Season 1 of Dawson's Cr...
floppy frum coldplay fan
  05/29/25
Harry Potter
Opaque supple circlehead jewess
  06/03/25
The OJ Simpson miniseries that was on FX a few years ago - t...
cerebral haunted graveyard range
  06/03/25
Good one
Exciting deranged idiot
  06/03/25
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Rusted property
  06/03/25
tv show but derry girls. wife insisted i watch it. i tho...
Hyperactive Self-centered Plaza
  06/07/25
It’s criminally underrated
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  06/08/25
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  06/09/25


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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:15 AM
Author: Exciting deranged idiot



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:30 AM
Author: Salmon Dopamine

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

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:31 AM
Author: cordovan electric party of the first part

Who even watches these anymore?

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:31 AM
Author: Sick cuckoldry space

I still watch Film

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: Bat shit crazy mad cow disease



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: Exciting deranged idiot



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:29 PM
Author: pink pit

but yet you know nothing of it

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:33 AM
Author: Sick cuckoldry space

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: ungodly business firm antidepressant drug

mean girls was released in 2004 but feels older imo

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:34 AM
Author: Aquamarine location athletic conference

True Detective season one



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:22 PM
Author: Wild gold cruise ship gunner



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:02 PM
Author: Exciting deranged idiot

Best answer so far

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:48 AM
Author: cracking demanding electric furnace



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:23 PM
Author: startling white depressive locale



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:28 PM
Author: Bat shit crazy mad cow disease

tp

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:39 PM
Author: Wild gold cruise ship gunner



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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:52 AM
Author: Exciting deranged idiot

The segways are the second biggest unresolved mystery after the lawnmower

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:34 AM
Author: charismatic olive rehab filthpig



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:38 AM
Author: Iridescent Internet-worthy Whorehouse

Alpha Dog pops into mind first

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:44 AM
Author: chest-beating water buffalo home

(Nick Cassavetes)

(JT)

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:19 PM
Author: Exciting deranged idiot

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: cordovan electric party of the first part

How to train your dragon

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:23 PM
Author: sooty odious faggotry

social network.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:44 PM
Author: Mauve chapel

Wolf of Wall Street

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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:23 PM
Author: Buff exhilarant candlestick maker



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:24 PM
Author: Wild gold cruise ship gunner



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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:58 PM
Author: Exciting deranged idiot

Mostly an 80s movie though.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:45 PM
Author: Swashbuckling Box Office Background Story

Speed

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: Exciting deranged idiot

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: Wild gold cruise ship gunner

Autoadmit.com

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: cordovan electric party of the first part

Nigger Feet

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: Amber Trip House

"period" is a gross word.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: Bat shit crazy mad cow disease

The Diaper

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:39 PM
Author: Wild gold cruise ship gunner



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: Exciting deranged idiot

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: Bat shit crazy mad cow disease



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:08 PM
Author: Wild gold cruise ship gunner



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:44 AM
Author: Buff exhilarant candlestick maker



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:49 AM
Author: Wild gold cruise ship gunner



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:18 PM
Author: Umber hospital preventive strike

The Queen (2006)

The Fighter (2010)

Erin Brocovich (2000)

I, Tonya (2017)

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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:50 AM
Author: Exciting deranged idiot

Thanks for asking Chat to give you answers

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:03 PM
Author: Thriller bawdyhouse dysfunction

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

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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:52 AM
Author: Exciting deranged idiot

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: Exciting deranged idiot

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: ungodly business firm antidepressant drug

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: Exciting deranged idiot

Good one

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:52 AM
Author: Hateful Chocolate Round Eye

lilo and stitch for the same reason

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:55 AM
Author: Wild gold cruise ship gunner



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Date: June 7th, 2025 4:43 AM
Author: Coral Infuriating Internal Respiration Abode



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Date: June 14th, 2025 10:02 AM
Author: Exciting deranged idiot

Those tankard bracelets and Deb’s hair are incredibly 90s

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:59 AM
Author: Swashbuckling Box Office Background Story

Road Trip

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:04 AM
Author: ultramarine histrionic fanboi station

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: Wild gold cruise ship gunner



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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:10 AM
Author: Obsidian kitty cat trailer park

Pain & Gain

Mid90s

The Informant!

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Date: May 29th, 2025 4:23 AM
Author: Rusted property

Pain & Gain is probably the best answer ITT

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Date: May 29th, 2025 7:11 AM
Author: Obsidian kitty cat trailer park

Im a Curator

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:35 AM
Author: charismatic olive rehab filthpig

Three Kings

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:38 AM
Author: Obsidian kitty cat trailer park

1999

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:44 AM
Author: Low-t Chad Mexican

One Day (2011)

Love and Other Drugs (2010)

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Date: May 28th, 2025 8:48 PM
Author: Jet painfully honest step-uncle's house mad-dog skullcap

Black Hawk Down

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:13 AM
Author: cracking demanding electric furnace

this

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Date: May 29th, 2025 7:49 AM
Author: Exciting deranged idiot

Lot of nostalgia for 1993 Somalia

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Date: May 29th, 2025 8:44 AM
Author: Sick cuckoldry space

I remember playing netdoom in an internet cafe in Berbera around then, it was 180.

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Date: May 28th, 2025 8:54 PM
Author: marvelous lake piazza

the belgian crime drama 'Maldoror' about the marc dutroux case.

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Date: May 29th, 2025 4:08 AM
Author: Exciting deranged idiot

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

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:14 AM
Author: cracking demanding electric furnace

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: Swashbuckling Box Office Background Story

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: cracking demanding electric furnace

tyvmft

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:25 AM
Author: floppy frum coldplay fan

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: Opaque supple circlehead jewess

Harry Potter

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Date: June 3rd, 2025 3:07 AM
Author: cerebral haunted graveyard range

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: Exciting deranged idiot

Good one

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Date: June 3rd, 2025 11:41 AM
Author: Rusted property



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Date: June 7th, 2025 4:39 AM
Author: Hyperactive Self-centered Plaza

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: Opaque supple circlehead jewess

It’s criminally underrated

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Date: June 9th, 2025 11:12 AM
Author: Hyperactive Self-centered Plaza



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