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

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Beady-eyed Mustard Jap National
  05/27/25
Big Lebowski almost qualifies, released in 1998 but set in 1...
Mewling spot
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Who even watches these anymore?
histrionic nibblets stage
  05/27/25
I still watch Film
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Beady-eyed Mustard Jap National
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but yet you know nothing of it
Pearl step-uncle's house
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Sir, I attended the Werner Herzog Film Seminar, pretty sure ...
Bat Shit Crazy Odious Indirect Expression
  05/28/25
mean girls was released in 2004 but feels older imo
hateful affirmative action
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True Detective season one
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Best answer so far
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The segways are the second biggest unresolved mystery after ...
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Vivacious umber really tough guy
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Alpha Dog pops into mind first
medicated people who are hurt
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(Nick Cassavetes) (JT)
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There are not a lot - certainly no great films. Add The F...
Beady-eyed Mustard Jap National
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How to train your dragon
histrionic nibblets stage
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social network.
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Wolf of Wall Street
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Mostly an 80s movie though.
Beady-eyed Mustard Jap National
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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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The Queen (2006) The Fighter (2010) Erin Brocovich (2000) ...
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Thanks for asking Chat to give you answers
Beady-eyed Mustard Jap National
  05/28/25
Doesn't qualify with your parameters but Clerks is classic 9...
Slippery swashbuckling hell gay wizard
  05/27/25
Yes, but not a period piece. Lots of movies reflect their t...
Beady-eyed Mustard Jap National
  05/28/25
I think Superbad is set in the 2000s but it has a 90s aesthe...
Beady-eyed Mustard Jap National
  05/28/25
Same for Napoleon dynamite Technically set in 2003 but ru...
hateful affirmative action
  05/28/25
Good one
Beady-eyed Mustard Jap National
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lilo and stitch for the same reason
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violent national security agency
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Those tankard bracelets and Deb’s hair are incredibly ...
Beady-eyed Mustard Jap National
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Road Trip
primrose exciting sanctuary
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this is difficult imo because 9/11 really wiped clean our me...
Laughsome Giraffe
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violent national security agency
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Pain & Gain Mid90s The Informant!
Hilarious theater stage
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Pain & Gain is probably the best answer ITT
boyish rebellious principal's office haunted graveyard
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Im a Curator
Hilarious theater stage
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Three Kings
Vivacious umber really tough guy
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1999
Hilarious theater stage
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One Day (2011) Love and Other Drugs (2010)
Sexy organic girlfriend
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Black Hawk Down
misunderstood heady hospital sweet tailpipe
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this
sapphire motley church
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Lot of nostalgia for 1993 Somalia
Beady-eyed Mustard Jap National
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I remember playing netdoom in an internet cafe in Berbera ar...
Bat Shit Crazy Odious Indirect Expression
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the belgian crime drama 'Maldoror' about the marc dutroux ca...
judgmental regret
  05/28/25
I feel like that’s too well known to even bother discu...
Beady-eyed Mustard Jap National
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Is The Departed set in the 1990s? Seemed to be based on the ...
sapphire motley church
  05/29/25
No. They were clearly using early 2000s era phones and using...
primrose exciting sanctuary
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tyvmft
sapphire motley church
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The Creek, the in-universe remake of Season 1 of Dawson's Cr...
Stimulating bossy personal credit line
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Harry Potter
Peach Locale
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The OJ Simpson miniseries that was on FX a few years ago - t...
Low-t Cracking Pisswyrm Party Of The First Part
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Good one
Beady-eyed Mustard Jap National
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boyish rebellious principal's office haunted graveyard
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tv show but derry girls. wife insisted i watch it. i tho...
smoky center
  06/07/25
It’s criminally underrated
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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:15 AM
Author: Beady-eyed Mustard Jap National



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:30 AM
Author: Mewling spot

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

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:31 AM
Author: histrionic nibblets stage

Who even watches these anymore?

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:31 AM
Author: Bat Shit Crazy Odious Indirect Expression

I still watch Film

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: Apoplectic Tanning Salon Mood



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: Beady-eyed Mustard Jap National



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:29 PM
Author: Pearl step-uncle's house

but yet you know nothing of it

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:33 AM
Author: Bat Shit Crazy Odious Indirect Expression

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: hateful affirmative action

mean girls was released in 2004 but feels older imo

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:34 AM
Author: Bearded address wrinkle

True Detective season one



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:22 PM
Author: violent national security agency



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:02 PM
Author: Beady-eyed Mustard Jap National

Best answer so far

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:48 AM
Author: sapphire motley church



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:23 PM
Author: Mint Property Toaster



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:28 PM
Author: Apoplectic Tanning Salon Mood

tp

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:39 PM
Author: violent national security agency



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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:52 AM
Author: Beady-eyed Mustard Jap National

The segways are the second biggest unresolved mystery after the lawnmower

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:34 AM
Author: Vivacious umber really tough guy



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:38 AM
Author: medicated people who are hurt

Alpha Dog pops into mind first

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:44 AM
Author: cerebral emerald ticket booth legend

(Nick Cassavetes)

(JT)

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:19 PM
Author: Beady-eyed Mustard Jap National

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: histrionic nibblets stage

How to train your dragon

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:23 PM
Author: sick chad wagecucks

social network.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:44 PM
Author: copper clown

Wolf of Wall Street

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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:23 PM
Author: Spruce Knife



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:24 PM
Author: violent national security agency



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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:58 PM
Author: Beady-eyed Mustard Jap National

Mostly an 80s movie though.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:45 PM
Author: primrose exciting sanctuary

Speed

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: Beady-eyed Mustard Jap National

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: violent national security agency

Autoadmit.com

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: histrionic nibblets stage

Nigger Feet

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: aphrodisiac trailer park gaming laptop

"period" is a gross word.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: Apoplectic Tanning Salon Mood

The Diaper

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:39 PM
Author: violent national security agency



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: Beady-eyed Mustard Jap National

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: Apoplectic Tanning Salon Mood



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:08 PM
Author: violent national security agency



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:44 AM
Author: Spruce Knife



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:49 AM
Author: violent national security agency



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:18 PM
Author: mind-boggling station

The Queen (2006)

The Fighter (2010)

Erin Brocovich (2000)

I, Tonya (2017)

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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:50 AM
Author: Beady-eyed Mustard Jap National

Thanks for asking Chat to give you answers

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:03 PM
Author: Slippery swashbuckling hell gay wizard

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

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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:52 AM
Author: Beady-eyed Mustard Jap National

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: Beady-eyed Mustard Jap National

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: hateful affirmative action

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: Beady-eyed Mustard Jap National

Good one

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:52 AM
Author: gay cuckoldry

lilo and stitch for the same reason

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:55 AM
Author: violent national security agency



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Date: June 7th, 2025 4:43 AM
Author: Drunken Rose Keepsake Machete Temple



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Date: June 14th, 2025 10:02 AM
Author: Beady-eyed Mustard Jap National

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

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:59 AM
Author: primrose exciting sanctuary

Road Trip

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:04 AM
Author: Laughsome Giraffe

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: violent national security agency



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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:10 AM
Author: Hilarious theater stage

Pain & Gain

Mid90s

The Informant!

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Date: May 29th, 2025 4:23 AM
Author: boyish rebellious principal's office haunted graveyard

Pain & Gain is probably the best answer ITT

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

Im a Curator

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:35 AM
Author: Vivacious umber really tough guy

Three Kings

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

1999

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:44 AM
Author: Sexy organic girlfriend

One Day (2011)

Love and Other Drugs (2010)

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Date: May 28th, 2025 8:48 PM
Author: misunderstood heady hospital sweet tailpipe

Black Hawk Down

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:13 AM
Author: sapphire motley church

this

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Date: May 29th, 2025 7:49 AM
Author: Beady-eyed Mustard Jap National

Lot of nostalgia for 1993 Somalia

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Date: May 29th, 2025 8:44 AM
Author: Bat Shit Crazy Odious Indirect Expression

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: judgmental regret

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

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Date: May 29th, 2025 4:08 AM
Author: Beady-eyed Mustard Jap National

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

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:14 AM
Author: sapphire motley church

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: primrose exciting sanctuary

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: sapphire motley church

tyvmft

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:25 AM
Author: Stimulating bossy personal credit line

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: Peach Locale

Harry Potter

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Date: June 3rd, 2025 3:07 AM
Author: Low-t Cracking Pisswyrm Party Of The First Part

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: Beady-eyed Mustard Jap National

Good one

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Date: June 3rd, 2025 11:41 AM
Author: boyish rebellious principal's office haunted graveyard



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Date: June 7th, 2025 4:39 AM
Author: smoky center

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: Peach Locale

It’s criminally underrated

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Date: June 9th, 2025 11:12 AM
Author: smoky center



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