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

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Pale Stage Hominid
  05/27/25
Big Lebowski almost qualifies, released in 1998 but set in 1...
Smoky Dead Box Office
  05/27/25
Who even watches these anymore?
sapphire site degenerate
  05/27/25
I still watch Film
impressive arousing boltzmann reading party
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Buff beady-eyed resort yarmulke
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Pale Stage Hominid
  05/27/25
but yet you know nothing of it
Floppy dull codepig
  05/27/25
Sir, I attended the Werner Herzog Film Seminar, pretty sure ...
impressive arousing boltzmann reading party
  05/28/25
mean girls was released in 2004 but feels older imo
spectacular fluffy ratface
  05/27/25
True Detective season one
Walnut house national security agency
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brass narrow-minded clown
  05/27/25
Best answer so far
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rebellious base fortuitous meteor
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magical free-loading son of senegal church
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Buff beady-eyed resort yarmulke
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brass narrow-minded clown
  05/27/25
The segways are the second biggest unresolved mystery after ...
Pale Stage Hominid
  05/28/25
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rambunctious talented juggernaut whorehouse
  05/28/25
Alpha Dog pops into mind first
Cheese-eating big pozpig
  05/27/25
(Nick Cassavetes) (JT)
tantric snowy piazza
  05/29/25
There are not a lot - certainly no great films. Add The F...
Pale Stage Hominid
  05/27/25
How to train your dragon
sapphire site degenerate
  05/27/25
social network.
brilliant water buffalo
  05/27/25
Wolf of Wall Street
Appetizing national toilet seat
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Vibrant point
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brass narrow-minded clown
  05/27/25
Mostly an 80s movie though.
Pale Stage Hominid
  05/27/25
Speed
Judgmental associate
  05/27/25
I don’t think 1994’s Speed meets one of OP&rsquo...
Pale Stage Hominid
  05/27/25
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brass narrow-minded clown
  05/27/25
Nigger Feet
sapphire site degenerate
  05/27/25
"period" is a gross word.
self-centered temple
  05/27/25
The Diaper
Buff beady-eyed resort yarmulke
  05/27/25
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brass narrow-minded clown
  05/27/25
I think this has to do with Klosterman’s theory about ...
Pale Stage Hominid
  05/27/25
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Buff beady-eyed resort yarmulke
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brass narrow-minded clown
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Vibrant point
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brass narrow-minded clown
  05/28/25
The Queen (2006) The Fighter (2010) Erin Brocovich (2000) ...
Sinister senate
  05/27/25
Thanks for asking Chat to give you answers
Pale Stage Hominid
  05/28/25
Doesn't qualify with your parameters but Clerks is classic 9...
Indigo Slippery Sweet Tailpipe
  05/27/25
Yes, but not a period piece. Lots of movies reflect their t...
Pale Stage Hominid
  05/28/25
I think Superbad is set in the 2000s but it has a 90s aesthe...
Pale Stage Hominid
  05/28/25
Same for Napoleon dynamite Technically set in 2003 but ru...
spectacular fluffy ratface
  05/28/25
Good one
Pale Stage Hominid
  05/28/25
lilo and stitch for the same reason
razzle-dazzle zippy chapel milk
  05/28/25
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brass narrow-minded clown
  05/28/25
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Drab feces ticket booth
  06/07/25
Those tankard bracelets and Deb’s hair are incredibly ...
Pale Stage Hominid
  06/14/25
Road Trip
Judgmental associate
  05/28/25
this is difficult imo because 9/11 really wiped clean our me...
internet-worthy casino telephone
  05/28/25
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brass narrow-minded clown
  05/28/25
Pain & Gain Mid90s The Informant!
Shimmering stage
  05/28/25
Pain & Gain is probably the best answer ITT
Stirring misanthropic candlestick maker
  05/29/25
Im a Curator
Shimmering stage
  05/29/25
Three Kings
rambunctious talented juggernaut whorehouse
  05/28/25
1999
Shimmering stage
  05/28/25
One Day (2011) Love and Other Drugs (2010)
Kink-friendly Alcoholic Dopamine Half-breed
  05/28/25
Black Hawk Down
filthy bat shit crazy incel office
  05/28/25
this
rebellious base fortuitous meteor
  05/29/25
Lot of nostalgia for 1993 Somalia
Pale Stage Hominid
  05/29/25
I remember playing netdoom in an internet cafe in Berbera ar...
impressive arousing boltzmann reading party
  05/29/25
the belgian crime drama 'Maldoror' about the marc dutroux ca...
Up-to-no-good genital piercing haunted graveyard
  05/28/25
I feel like that’s too well known to even bother discu...
Pale Stage Hominid
  05/29/25
Is The Departed set in the 1990s? Seemed to be based on the ...
rebellious base fortuitous meteor
  05/29/25
No. They were clearly using early 2000s era phones and using...
Judgmental associate
  05/29/25
tyvmft
rebellious base fortuitous meteor
  05/29/25
The Creek, the in-universe remake of Season 1 of Dawson's Cr...
Confused Goal In Life
  05/29/25
Harry Potter
buck-toothed ocher stock car
  06/03/25
The OJ Simpson miniseries that was on FX a few years ago - t...
provocative doobsian preventive strike double fault
  06/03/25
Good one
Pale Stage Hominid
  06/03/25
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Stirring misanthropic candlestick maker
  06/03/25
tv show but derry girls. wife insisted i watch it. i tho...
bateful angry library coffee pot
  06/07/25
It’s criminally underrated
buck-toothed ocher stock car
  06/08/25
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bateful angry library coffee pot
  06/09/25


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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:15 AM
Author: Pale Stage Hominid



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:30 AM
Author: Smoky Dead Box Office

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

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:31 AM
Author: sapphire site degenerate

Who even watches these anymore?

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:31 AM
Author: impressive arousing boltzmann reading party

I still watch Film

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: Buff beady-eyed resort yarmulke



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: Pale Stage Hominid



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:29 PM
Author: Floppy dull codepig

but yet you know nothing of it

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:33 AM
Author: impressive arousing boltzmann reading party

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: spectacular fluffy ratface

mean girls was released in 2004 but feels older imo

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:34 AM
Author: Walnut house national security agency

True Detective season one



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:22 PM
Author: brass narrow-minded clown



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:02 PM
Author: Pale Stage Hominid

Best answer so far

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:48 AM
Author: rebellious base fortuitous meteor



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:23 PM
Author: magical free-loading son of senegal church



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:28 PM
Author: Buff beady-eyed resort yarmulke

tp

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:39 PM
Author: brass narrow-minded clown



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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:52 AM
Author: Pale Stage Hominid

The segways are the second biggest unresolved mystery after the lawnmower

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:34 AM
Author: rambunctious talented juggernaut whorehouse



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:38 AM
Author: Cheese-eating big pozpig

Alpha Dog pops into mind first

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:44 AM
Author: tantric snowy piazza

(Nick Cassavetes)

(JT)

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:19 PM
Author: Pale Stage Hominid

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: sapphire site degenerate

How to train your dragon

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:23 PM
Author: brilliant water buffalo

social network.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:44 PM
Author: Appetizing national toilet seat

Wolf of Wall Street

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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:23 PM
Author: Vibrant point



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:24 PM
Author: brass narrow-minded clown



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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:58 PM
Author: Pale Stage Hominid

Mostly an 80s movie though.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:45 PM
Author: Judgmental associate

Speed

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: Pale Stage Hominid

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: brass narrow-minded clown

Autoadmit.com

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: sapphire site degenerate

Nigger Feet

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: self-centered temple

"period" is a gross word.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: Buff beady-eyed resort yarmulke

The Diaper

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:39 PM
Author: brass narrow-minded clown



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: Pale Stage Hominid

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: Buff beady-eyed resort yarmulke



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:08 PM
Author: brass narrow-minded clown



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:44 AM
Author: Vibrant point



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:49 AM
Author: brass narrow-minded clown



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:18 PM
Author: Sinister senate

The Queen (2006)

The Fighter (2010)

Erin Brocovich (2000)

I, Tonya (2017)

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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:50 AM
Author: Pale Stage Hominid

Thanks for asking Chat to give you answers

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:03 PM
Author: Indigo Slippery Sweet Tailpipe

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

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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:52 AM
Author: Pale Stage Hominid

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: Pale Stage Hominid

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: spectacular fluffy ratface

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: Pale Stage Hominid

Good one

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:52 AM
Author: razzle-dazzle zippy chapel milk

lilo and stitch for the same reason

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:55 AM
Author: brass narrow-minded clown



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Date: June 7th, 2025 4:43 AM
Author: Drab feces ticket booth



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Date: June 14th, 2025 10:02 AM
Author: Pale Stage Hominid

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

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:59 AM
Author: Judgmental associate

Road Trip

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:04 AM
Author: internet-worthy casino telephone

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: brass narrow-minded clown



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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:10 AM
Author: Shimmering stage

Pain & Gain

Mid90s

The Informant!

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Date: May 29th, 2025 4:23 AM
Author: Stirring misanthropic candlestick maker

Pain & Gain is probably the best answer ITT

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Date: May 29th, 2025 7:11 AM
Author: Shimmering stage

Im a Curator

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:35 AM
Author: rambunctious talented juggernaut whorehouse

Three Kings

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:38 AM
Author: Shimmering stage

1999

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:44 AM
Author: Kink-friendly Alcoholic Dopamine Half-breed

One Day (2011)

Love and Other Drugs (2010)

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Date: May 28th, 2025 8:48 PM
Author: filthy bat shit crazy incel office

Black Hawk Down

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:13 AM
Author: rebellious base fortuitous meteor

this

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Date: May 29th, 2025 7:49 AM
Author: Pale Stage Hominid

Lot of nostalgia for 1993 Somalia

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Date: May 29th, 2025 8:44 AM
Author: impressive arousing boltzmann reading party

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: Up-to-no-good genital piercing haunted graveyard

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: Pale Stage Hominid

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

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:14 AM
Author: rebellious base fortuitous meteor

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: Judgmental associate

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: rebellious base fortuitous meteor

tyvmft

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:25 AM
Author: Confused Goal In Life

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: buck-toothed ocher stock car

Harry Potter

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Date: June 3rd, 2025 3:07 AM
Author: provocative doobsian preventive strike double fault

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: Pale Stage Hominid

Good one

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Date: June 3rd, 2025 11:41 AM
Author: Stirring misanthropic candlestick maker



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Date: June 7th, 2025 4:39 AM
Author: bateful angry library coffee pot

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: buck-toothed ocher stock car

It’s criminally underrated

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Date: June 9th, 2025 11:12 AM
Author: bateful angry library coffee pot



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