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

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Racy Hall
  05/27/25
Big Lebowski almost qualifies, released in 1998 but set in 1...
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Who even watches these anymore?
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I still watch Film
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but yet you know nothing of it
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mean girls was released in 2004 but feels older imo
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True Detective season one
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There are not a lot - certainly no great films. Add The F...
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How to train your dragon
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social network.
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Wolf of Wall Street
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Mostly an 80s movie though.
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Speed
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I don’t think 1994’s Speed meets one of OP&rsquo...
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Doesn't qualify with your parameters but Clerks is classic 9...
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  05/27/25
Yes, but not a period piece. Lots of movies reflect their t...
Racy Hall
  05/28/25
I think Superbad is set in the 2000s but it has a 90s aesthe...
Racy Hall
  05/28/25
Same for Napoleon dynamite Technically set in 2003 but ru...
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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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Three Kings
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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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The OJ Simpson miniseries that was on FX a few years ago - t...
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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:15 AM
Author: Racy Hall



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:30 AM
Author: Big Amber Chapel

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

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:31 AM
Author: galvanic crackhouse mediation

Who even watches these anymore?

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:31 AM
Author: Dashing nursing home

I still watch Film

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:29 PM
Author: Hideous bearded crotch twinkling uncleanness

but yet you know nothing of it

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:33 AM
Author: Dashing nursing home

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: razzmatazz self-absorbed box office circlehead

mean girls was released in 2004 but feels older imo

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:34 AM
Author: Irradiated flatulent property regret

True Detective season one



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:22 PM
Author: Salmon exhilarant home



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:02 PM
Author: Racy Hall

Best answer so far

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:48 AM
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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:23 PM
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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:28 PM
Author: stimulating cruise ship

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:39 PM
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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:52 AM
Author: Racy Hall

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
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Alpha Dog pops into mind first

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:44 AM
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(Nick Cassavetes)

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:19 PM
Author: Racy Hall

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: galvanic crackhouse mediation

How to train your dragon

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:23 PM
Author: mint black woman

social network.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:44 PM
Author: vivacious wine menage

Wolf of Wall Street

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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:23 PM
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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:24 PM
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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:58 PM
Author: Racy Hall

Mostly an 80s movie though.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:45 PM
Author: exciting maize office telephone

Speed

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: Racy Hall

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: Salmon exhilarant home

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: galvanic crackhouse mediation

Nigger Feet

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: chocolate parlour fortuitous meteor

"period" is a gross word.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: stimulating cruise ship

The Diaper

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:39 PM
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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: Racy Hall

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
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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:08 PM
Author: Salmon exhilarant home



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:44 AM
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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:49 AM
Author: Salmon exhilarant home



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:18 PM
Author: Vibrant Haunted Graveyard Stead

The Queen (2006)

The Fighter (2010)

Erin Brocovich (2000)

I, Tonya (2017)

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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:50 AM
Author: Racy Hall

Thanks for asking Chat to give you answers

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:03 PM
Author: Abusive school cafeteria cumskin

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

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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:52 AM
Author: Racy Hall

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: Racy Hall

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: razzmatazz self-absorbed box office circlehead

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: Racy Hall

Good one

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:52 AM
Author: Clear bat-shit-crazy internal respiration round eye

lilo and stitch for the same reason

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:55 AM
Author: Salmon exhilarant home



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Date: June 7th, 2025 4:43 AM
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Date: June 14th, 2025 10:02 AM
Author: Racy Hall

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

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:59 AM
Author: exciting maize office telephone

Road Trip

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:04 AM
Author: Doobsian aqua pit reading party

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: Salmon exhilarant home



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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:10 AM
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Pain & Gain

Mid90s

The Informant!

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Date: May 29th, 2025 4:23 AM
Author: vigorous cream orchestra pit skinny woman

Pain & Gain is probably the best answer ITT

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Date: May 29th, 2025 7:11 AM
Author: Claret dog poop gay wizard

Im a Curator

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:35 AM
Author: jet address deer antler

Three Kings

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:38 AM
Author: Claret dog poop gay wizard

1999

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:44 AM
Author: cracking area police squad

One Day (2011)

Love and Other Drugs (2010)

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Date: May 28th, 2025 8:48 PM
Author: jade chest-beating native

Black Hawk Down

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:13 AM
Author: gay corner rigpig

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Date: May 29th, 2025 7:49 AM
Author: Racy Hall

Lot of nostalgia for 1993 Somalia

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Date: May 29th, 2025 8:44 AM
Author: Dashing nursing home

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 buff stag film volcanic crater

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

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Date: May 29th, 2025 4:08 AM
Author: Racy Hall

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

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:14 AM
Author: gay corner rigpig

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: exciting maize office telephone

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: gay corner rigpig

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:25 AM
Author: razzle associate pistol

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: cruel-hearted fragrant azn hospital

Harry Potter

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Date: June 3rd, 2025 3:07 AM
Author: brilliant personal credit line

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: Racy Hall

Good one

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Date: June 3rd, 2025 11:41 AM
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Date: June 7th, 2025 4:39 AM
Author: tantric market pisswyrm

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: cruel-hearted fragrant azn hospital

It’s criminally underrated

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Date: June 9th, 2025 11:12 AM
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