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

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Dull High-end Pisswyrm Yarmulke
  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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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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The segways are the second biggest unresolved mystery after ...
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Alpha Dog pops into mind first
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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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Nigger Feet
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"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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Dull High-end Pisswyrm Yarmulke
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Doesn't qualify with your parameters but Clerks is classic 9...
jade massive milk generalized bond
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Yes, but not a period piece. Lots of movies reflect their t...
Dull High-end Pisswyrm Yarmulke
  05/28/25
I think Superbad is set in the 2000s but it has a 90s aesthe...
Dull High-end Pisswyrm Yarmulke
  05/28/25
Same for Napoleon dynamite Technically set in 2003 but ru...
Vigorous Territorial Affirmative Action Faggot Firefighter
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Good one
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lilo and stitch for the same reason
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Road Trip
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this is difficult imo because 9/11 really wiped clean our me...
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Pain & Gain Mid90s The Informant!
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Pain & Gain is probably the best answer ITT
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Im a Curator
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Three Kings
Odious shrine
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1999
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One Day (2011) Love and Other Drugs (2010)
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Black Hawk Down
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this
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Lot of nostalgia for 1993 Somalia
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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...
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Is The Departed set in the 1990s? Seemed to be based on the ...
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No. They were clearly using early 2000s era phones and using...
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tyvmft
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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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Good one
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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:15 AM
Author: Dull High-end Pisswyrm Yarmulke



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:30 AM
Author: provocative boistinker coffee pot

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

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:31 AM
Author: Jet Irradiated Property

Who even watches these anymore?

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:31 AM
Author: splenetic sanctuary

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
Author: Dull High-end Pisswyrm Yarmulke



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:29 PM
Author: Rambunctious corner dopamine

but yet you know nothing of it

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:33 AM
Author: splenetic sanctuary

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: Vigorous Territorial Affirmative Action Faggot Firefighter

mean girls was released in 2004 but feels older imo

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:34 AM
Author: translucent menage

True Detective season one



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:22 PM
Author: Electric clear ticket booth



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:02 PM
Author: Dull High-end Pisswyrm Yarmulke

Best answer so far

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:48 AM
Author: crystalline native wrinkle



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:23 PM
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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:28 PM
Author: ruddy plaza feces

tp

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:39 PM
Author: Electric clear ticket booth



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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:52 AM
Author: Dull High-end Pisswyrm Yarmulke

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
Author: slippery appetizing weed whacker

Alpha Dog pops into mind first

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:44 AM
Author: Tantric nibblets

(Nick Cassavetes)

(JT)

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:19 PM
Author: Dull High-end Pisswyrm Yarmulke

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: Jet Irradiated Property

How to train your dragon

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:23 PM
Author: heady ape

social network.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:44 PM
Author: buff aphrodisiac laser beams space

Wolf of Wall Street

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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:23 PM
Author: greedy stirring pit electric furnace



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:24 PM
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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:58 PM
Author: Dull High-end Pisswyrm Yarmulke

Mostly an 80s movie though.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:45 PM
Author: curious doobsian ratface

Speed

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: Dull High-end Pisswyrm Yarmulke

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: Electric clear ticket booth

Autoadmit.com

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: Jet Irradiated Property

Nigger Feet

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: drunken idiot

"period" is a gross word.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: ruddy plaza feces

The Diaper

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:39 PM
Author: Electric clear ticket booth



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: Dull High-end Pisswyrm Yarmulke

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: ruddy plaza feces



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:08 PM
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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:44 AM
Author: greedy stirring pit electric furnace



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:49 AM
Author: Electric clear ticket booth



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:18 PM
Author: Charismatic Windowlicker Base

The Queen (2006)

The Fighter (2010)

Erin Brocovich (2000)

I, Tonya (2017)

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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:50 AM
Author: Dull High-end Pisswyrm Yarmulke

Thanks for asking Chat to give you answers

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:03 PM
Author: jade massive milk generalized bond

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

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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:52 AM
Author: Dull High-end Pisswyrm Yarmulke

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: Dull High-end Pisswyrm Yarmulke

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: Vigorous Territorial Affirmative Action Faggot Firefighter

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: Dull High-end Pisswyrm Yarmulke

Good one

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:52 AM
Author: Fishy Digit Ratio Casino

lilo and stitch for the same reason

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:55 AM
Author: Electric clear ticket booth



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:59 AM
Author: curious doobsian ratface

Road Trip

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:04 AM
Author: ebony marketing idea

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: Electric clear ticket booth



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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:10 AM
Author: Diverse Mildly Autistic Black Woman Party Of The First Part

Pain & Gain

Mid90s

The Informant!

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Date: May 29th, 2025 4:23 AM
Author: Navy immigrant

Pain & Gain is probably the best answer ITT

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Date: May 29th, 2025 7:11 AM
Author: Diverse Mildly Autistic Black Woman Party Of The First Part

Im a Curator

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:35 AM
Author: Odious shrine

Three Kings

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:38 AM
Author: Diverse Mildly Autistic Black Woman Party Of The First Part

1999

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:44 AM
Author: Salmon place of business

One Day (2011)

Love and Other Drugs (2010)

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Date: May 28th, 2025 8:48 PM
Author: alcoholic forum pozpig

Black Hawk Down

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:13 AM
Author: crystalline native wrinkle

this

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Date: May 29th, 2025 7:49 AM
Author: Dull High-end Pisswyrm Yarmulke

Lot of nostalgia for 1993 Somalia

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Date: May 29th, 2025 8:44 AM
Author: splenetic sanctuary

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: Bronze regret

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

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Date: May 29th, 2025 4:08 AM
Author: Dull High-end Pisswyrm Yarmulke

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

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:14 AM
Author: crystalline native wrinkle

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: curious doobsian ratface

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: crystalline native wrinkle

tyvmft

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:25 AM
Author: dashing ivory den

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: Pumonymous

Harry Potter

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Date: June 3rd, 2025 3:07 AM
Author: Todd Driskill

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: Pierbattista Pizzaballa

Good one

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Date: June 3rd, 2025 11:41 AM
Author: Trump Tariffs Can Do No Wrong (TDNW)



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