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

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Trip unholy garrison halford
  05/27/25
Big Lebowski almost qualifies, released in 1998 but set in 1...
Beady-eyed deep library fanboi
  05/27/25
Who even watches these anymore?
milky ape
  05/27/25
I still watch Film
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Trip unholy garrison halford
  05/27/25
but yet you know nothing of it
180 property son of senegal
  05/27/25
Sir, I attended the Werner Herzog Film Seminar, pretty sure ...
Tan Exhilarant Gaping Gaming Laptop
  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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tp
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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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  05/29/25
There are not a lot - certainly no great films. Add The F...
Trip unholy garrison halford
  05/27/25
How to train your dragon
milky ape
  05/27/25
social network.
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Wolf of Wall Street
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Citrine painfully honest abode
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Mostly an 80s movie though.
Trip unholy garrison halford
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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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Citrine painfully honest abode
  05/27/25
Nigger Feet
milky ape
  05/27/25
"period" is a gross word.
swollen autistic stage
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The Diaper
ruby hospital legend
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Citrine painfully honest abode
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I think this has to do with Klosterman’s theory about ...
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Citrine painfully honest abode
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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
Trip unholy garrison halford
  05/28/25
Doesn't qualify with your parameters but Clerks is classic 9...
Passionate orchid trust fund
  05/27/25
Yes, but not a period piece. Lots of movies reflect their t...
Trip unholy garrison halford
  05/28/25
I think Superbad is set in the 2000s but it has a 90s aesthe...
Trip unholy garrison halford
  05/28/25
Same for Napoleon dynamite Technically set in 2003 but ru...
hairraiser transparent private investor theater stage
  05/28/25
Good one
Trip unholy garrison halford
  05/28/25
lilo and stitch for the same reason
Offensive jewess
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Citrine painfully honest abode
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drab stead
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Those tankard bracelets and Deb’s hair are incredibly ...
Trip unholy garrison halford
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Road Trip
Gold Soul-stirring Cuckold
  05/28/25
this is difficult imo because 9/11 really wiped clean our me...
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Citrine painfully honest abode
  05/28/25
Pain & Gain Mid90s The Informant!
Nudist onyx national security agency
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Pain & Gain is probably the best answer ITT
contagious cruise ship newt
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Im a Curator
Nudist onyx national security agency
  05/29/25
Three Kings
impertinent burgundy round eye new version
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1999
Nudist onyx national security agency
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One Day (2011) Love and Other Drugs (2010)
infuriating bistre theater
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Black Hawk Down
Fuchsia Submissive Locus
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this
Ocher misunderstood stock car persian
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Lot of nostalgia for 1993 Somalia
Trip unholy garrison halford
  05/29/25
I remember playing netdoom in an internet cafe in Berbera ar...
Tan Exhilarant Gaping Gaming Laptop
  05/29/25
the belgian crime drama 'Maldoror' about the marc dutroux ca...
boyish hell
  05/28/25
I feel like that’s too well known to even bother discu...
Trip unholy garrison halford
  05/29/25
Is The Departed set in the 1990s? Seemed to be based on the ...
Ocher misunderstood stock car persian
  05/29/25
No. They were clearly using early 2000s era phones and using...
Gold Soul-stirring Cuckold
  05/29/25
tyvmft
Ocher misunderstood stock car persian
  05/29/25
The Creek, the in-universe remake of Season 1 of Dawson's Cr...
Buff Bisexual Stage
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Harry Potter
Bossy bull headed den
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The OJ Simpson miniseries that was on FX a few years ago - t...
Vibrant Hissy Fit Affirmative Action
  06/03/25
Good one
Trip unholy garrison halford
  06/03/25
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contagious cruise ship newt
  06/03/25
tv show but derry girls. wife insisted i watch it. i tho...
Hilarious pocket flask
  06/07/25
It’s criminally underrated
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  06/08/25
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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:15 AM
Author: Trip unholy garrison halford



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:30 AM
Author: Beady-eyed deep library fanboi

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

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:31 AM
Author: milky ape

Who even watches these anymore?

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:31 AM
Author: Tan Exhilarant Gaping Gaming Laptop

I still watch Film

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: ruby hospital legend



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: Trip unholy garrison halford



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:29 PM
Author: 180 property son of senegal

but yet you know nothing of it

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:33 AM
Author: Tan Exhilarant Gaping Gaming Laptop

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: hairraiser transparent private investor theater stage

mean girls was released in 2004 but feels older imo

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:34 AM
Author: At-the-ready kitty cat nibblets

True Detective season one



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:22 PM
Author: Citrine painfully honest abode



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:02 PM
Author: Trip unholy garrison halford

Best answer so far

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:48 AM
Author: Ocher misunderstood stock car persian



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:23 PM
Author: blathering maroon dilemma



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:28 PM
Author: ruby hospital legend

tp

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:39 PM
Author: Citrine painfully honest abode



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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:52 AM
Author: Trip unholy garrison halford

The segways are the second biggest unresolved mystery after the lawnmower

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:34 AM
Author: impertinent burgundy round eye new version



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:38 AM
Author: razzle charcoal senate cumskin

Alpha Dog pops into mind first

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:44 AM
Author: Concupiscible mauve site codepig

(Nick Cassavetes)

(JT)

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:19 PM
Author: Trip unholy garrison halford

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: milky ape

How to train your dragon

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:23 PM
Author: Splenetic church building

social network.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:44 PM
Author: Excitant pisswyrm place of business

Wolf of Wall Street

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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:23 PM
Author: Metal death wish box office



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:24 PM
Author: Citrine painfully honest abode



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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:58 PM
Author: Trip unholy garrison halford

Mostly an 80s movie though.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:45 PM
Author: Gold Soul-stirring Cuckold

Speed

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: Trip unholy garrison halford

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: Citrine painfully honest abode

Autoadmit.com

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: milky ape

Nigger Feet

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: swollen autistic stage

"period" is a gross word.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: ruby hospital legend

The Diaper

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:39 PM
Author: Citrine painfully honest abode



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: Trip unholy garrison halford

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: ruby hospital legend



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:08 PM
Author: Citrine painfully honest abode



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:44 AM
Author: Metal death wish box office



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:49 AM
Author: Citrine painfully honest abode



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:18 PM
Author: Turquoise Violent Athletic Conference Puppy

The Queen (2006)

The Fighter (2010)

Erin Brocovich (2000)

I, Tonya (2017)

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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:50 AM
Author: Trip unholy garrison halford

Thanks for asking Chat to give you answers

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:03 PM
Author: Passionate orchid trust fund

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

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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:52 AM
Author: Trip unholy garrison halford

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: Trip unholy garrison halford

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: hairraiser transparent private investor theater stage

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: Trip unholy garrison halford

Good one

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:52 AM
Author: Offensive jewess

lilo and stitch for the same reason

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:55 AM
Author: Citrine painfully honest abode



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Date: June 7th, 2025 4:43 AM
Author: drab stead



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Date: June 14th, 2025 10:02 AM
Author: Trip unholy garrison halford

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

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:59 AM
Author: Gold Soul-stirring Cuckold

Road Trip

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:04 AM
Author: aggressive opaque half-breed hall

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: Citrine painfully honest abode



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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:10 AM
Author: Nudist onyx national security agency

Pain & Gain

Mid90s

The Informant!

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Date: May 29th, 2025 4:23 AM
Author: contagious cruise ship newt

Pain & Gain is probably the best answer ITT

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Date: May 29th, 2025 7:11 AM
Author: Nudist onyx national security agency

Im a Curator

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:35 AM
Author: impertinent burgundy round eye new version

Three Kings

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:38 AM
Author: Nudist onyx national security agency

1999

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:44 AM
Author: infuriating bistre theater

One Day (2011)

Love and Other Drugs (2010)

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Date: May 28th, 2025 8:48 PM
Author: Fuchsia Submissive Locus

Black Hawk Down

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:13 AM
Author: Ocher misunderstood stock car persian

this

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Date: May 29th, 2025 7:49 AM
Author: Trip unholy garrison halford

Lot of nostalgia for 1993 Somalia

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Date: May 29th, 2025 8:44 AM
Author: Tan Exhilarant Gaping Gaming Laptop

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: boyish hell

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

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Date: May 29th, 2025 4:08 AM
Author: Trip unholy garrison halford

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

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:14 AM
Author: Ocher misunderstood stock car persian

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: Gold Soul-stirring Cuckold

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: Ocher misunderstood stock car persian

tyvmft

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:25 AM
Author: Buff Bisexual Stage

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: Bossy bull headed den

Harry Potter

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Date: June 3rd, 2025 3:07 AM
Author: Vibrant Hissy Fit Affirmative Action

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: Trip unholy garrison halford

Good one

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Date: June 3rd, 2025 11:41 AM
Author: contagious cruise ship newt



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Date: June 7th, 2025 4:39 AM
Author: Hilarious pocket flask

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: Bossy bull headed den

It’s criminally underrated

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Date: June 9th, 2025 11:12 AM
Author: Hilarious pocket flask



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