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

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sepia headpube
  05/27/25
Big Lebowski almost qualifies, released in 1998 but set in 1...
Chocolate Organic Girlfriend
  05/27/25
Who even watches these anymore?
Multi-colored shivering area
  05/27/25
I still watch Film
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sepia headpube
  05/27/25
but yet you know nothing of it
Plum dog poop
  05/27/25
Sir, I attended the Werner Herzog Film Seminar, pretty sure ...
aggressive national
  05/28/25
mean girls was released in 2004 but feels older imo
Vermilion godawful locus queen of the night
  05/27/25
True Detective season one
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  05/27/25
Best answer so far
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The segways are the second biggest unresolved mystery after ...
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glassy heady toaster ratface
  05/28/25
Alpha Dog pops into mind first
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  05/27/25
(Nick Cassavetes) (JT)
Cowardly maize trailer park clown
  05/29/25
There are not a lot - certainly no great films. Add The F...
sepia headpube
  05/27/25
How to train your dragon
Multi-colored shivering area
  05/27/25
social network.
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Wolf of Wall Street
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shimmering friendly grandma sanctuary
  05/27/25
Mostly an 80s movie though.
sepia headpube
  05/27/25
Speed
low-t dull haunted graveyard
  05/27/25
I don’t think 1994’s Speed meets one of OP&rsquo...
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  05/27/25
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  05/27/25
Nigger Feet
Multi-colored shivering area
  05/27/25
"period" is a gross word.
big smoky pit
  05/27/25
The Diaper
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  05/27/25
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
sepia headpube
  05/28/25
Doesn't qualify with your parameters but Clerks is classic 9...
trip native
  05/27/25
Yes, but not a period piece. Lots of movies reflect their t...
sepia headpube
  05/28/25
I think Superbad is set in the 2000s but it has a 90s aesthe...
sepia headpube
  05/28/25
Same for Napoleon dynamite Technically set in 2003 but ru...
Vermilion godawful locus queen of the night
  05/28/25
Good one
sepia headpube
  05/28/25
lilo and stitch for the same reason
Concupiscible telephone
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shimmering friendly grandma sanctuary
  05/28/25
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Bistre Vivacious Death Wish
  06/07/25
Those tankard bracelets and Deb’s hair are incredibly ...
sepia headpube
  06/14/25
Road Trip
low-t dull haunted graveyard
  05/28/25
this is difficult imo because 9/11 really wiped clean our me...
Yapping underhanded theater
  05/28/25
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shimmering friendly grandma sanctuary
  05/28/25
Pain & Gain Mid90s The Informant!
Thirsty business firm
  05/28/25
Pain & Gain is probably the best answer ITT
Aromatic generalized bond national security agency
  05/29/25
Im a Curator
Thirsty business firm
  05/29/25
Three Kings
glassy heady toaster ratface
  05/28/25
1999
Thirsty business firm
  05/28/25
One Day (2011) Love and Other Drugs (2010)
Talented Crimson Base Gaming Laptop
  05/28/25
Black Hawk Down
flickering flushed space foreskin
  05/28/25
this
Motley lay twinkling uncleanness
  05/29/25
Lot of nostalgia for 1993 Somalia
sepia headpube
  05/29/25
I remember playing netdoom in an internet cafe in Berbera ar...
aggressive national
  05/29/25
the belgian crime drama 'Maldoror' about the marc dutroux ca...
indecent ceo
  05/28/25
I feel like that’s too well known to even bother discu...
sepia headpube
  05/29/25
Is The Departed set in the 1990s? Seemed to be based on the ...
Motley lay twinkling uncleanness
  05/29/25
No. They were clearly using early 2000s era phones and using...
low-t dull haunted graveyard
  05/29/25
tyvmft
Motley lay twinkling uncleanness
  05/29/25
The Creek, the in-universe remake of Season 1 of Dawson's Cr...
zombie-like supple spot
  05/29/25
Harry Potter
cracking gas station
  06/03/25
The OJ Simpson miniseries that was on FX a few years ago - t...
ocher excitant state marketing idea
  06/03/25
Good one
sepia headpube
  06/03/25
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Aromatic generalized bond national security agency
  06/03/25
tv show but derry girls. wife insisted i watch it. i tho...
Obsidian frozen mother dilemma
  06/07/25
It’s criminally underrated
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  06/08/25
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Obsidian frozen mother dilemma
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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:15 AM
Author: sepia headpube



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:30 AM
Author: Chocolate Organic Girlfriend

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

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:31 AM
Author: Multi-colored shivering area

Who even watches these anymore?

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:31 AM
Author: aggressive national

I still watch Film

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: Pale rambunctious indian lodge pocket flask



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:29 PM
Author: Plum dog poop

but yet you know nothing of it

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:33 AM
Author: aggressive national

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: Vermilion godawful locus queen of the night

mean girls was released in 2004 but feels older imo

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:34 AM
Author: lemon den love of her life

True Detective season one



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:22 PM
Author: shimmering friendly grandma sanctuary



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:02 PM
Author: sepia headpube

Best answer so far

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:48 AM
Author: Motley lay twinkling uncleanness



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:23 PM
Author: Outnumbered vibrant pisswyrm



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:28 PM
Author: Pale rambunctious indian lodge pocket flask

tp

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:39 PM
Author: shimmering friendly grandma sanctuary



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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:52 AM
Author: sepia headpube

The segways are the second biggest unresolved mystery after the lawnmower

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:34 AM
Author: glassy heady toaster ratface



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:38 AM
Author: exciting immigrant water buffalo

Alpha Dog pops into mind first

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:44 AM
Author: Cowardly maize trailer park clown

(Nick Cassavetes)

(JT)

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:19 PM
Author: sepia headpube

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: Multi-colored shivering area

How to train your dragon

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:23 PM
Author: Aqua voyeur ticket booth

social network.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:44 PM
Author: Titillating alcoholic range hairy legs

Wolf of Wall Street

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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:23 PM
Author: Gay brethren



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:24 PM
Author: shimmering friendly grandma sanctuary



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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:58 PM
Author: sepia headpube

Mostly an 80s movie though.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:45 PM
Author: low-t dull haunted graveyard

Speed

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: sepia headpube

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: shimmering friendly grandma sanctuary

Autoadmit.com

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: Multi-colored shivering area

Nigger Feet

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: big smoky pit

"period" is a gross word.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: Pale rambunctious indian lodge pocket flask

The Diaper

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:39 PM
Author: shimmering friendly grandma sanctuary



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: sepia headpube

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: Pale rambunctious indian lodge pocket flask



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:08 PM
Author: shimmering friendly grandma sanctuary



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:44 AM
Author: Gay brethren



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:49 AM
Author: shimmering friendly grandma sanctuary



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:18 PM
Author: spectacular nighttime casino trump supporter

The Queen (2006)

The Fighter (2010)

Erin Brocovich (2000)

I, Tonya (2017)

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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:50 AM
Author: sepia headpube

Thanks for asking Chat to give you answers

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:03 PM
Author: trip native

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

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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:52 AM
Author: sepia headpube

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: sepia headpube

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: Vermilion godawful locus queen of the night

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: sepia headpube

Good one

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:52 AM
Author: Concupiscible telephone

lilo and stitch for the same reason

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:55 AM
Author: shimmering friendly grandma sanctuary



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Date: June 7th, 2025 4:43 AM
Author: Bistre Vivacious Death Wish



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Date: June 14th, 2025 10:02 AM
Author: sepia headpube

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

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:59 AM
Author: low-t dull haunted graveyard

Road Trip

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:04 AM
Author: Yapping underhanded theater

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: shimmering friendly grandma sanctuary



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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:10 AM
Author: Thirsty business firm

Pain & Gain

Mid90s

The Informant!

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Date: May 29th, 2025 4:23 AM
Author: Aromatic generalized bond national security agency

Pain & Gain is probably the best answer ITT

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Date: May 29th, 2025 7:11 AM
Author: Thirsty business firm

Im a Curator

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:35 AM
Author: glassy heady toaster ratface

Three Kings

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:38 AM
Author: Thirsty business firm

1999

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:44 AM
Author: Talented Crimson Base Gaming Laptop

One Day (2011)

Love and Other Drugs (2010)

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Date: May 28th, 2025 8:48 PM
Author: flickering flushed space foreskin

Black Hawk Down

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:13 AM
Author: Motley lay twinkling uncleanness

this

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Date: May 29th, 2025 7:49 AM
Author: sepia headpube

Lot of nostalgia for 1993 Somalia

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Date: May 29th, 2025 8:44 AM
Author: aggressive national

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: indecent ceo

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

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Date: May 29th, 2025 4:08 AM
Author: sepia headpube

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

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:14 AM
Author: Motley lay twinkling uncleanness

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: low-t dull haunted graveyard

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: Motley lay twinkling uncleanness

tyvmft

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:25 AM
Author: zombie-like supple spot

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: cracking gas station

Harry Potter

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Date: June 3rd, 2025 3:07 AM
Author: ocher excitant state marketing idea

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: sepia headpube

Good one

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Date: June 3rd, 2025 11:41 AM
Author: Aromatic generalized bond national security agency



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Date: June 7th, 2025 4:39 AM
Author: Obsidian frozen mother dilemma

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: cracking gas station

It’s criminally underrated

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Date: June 9th, 2025 11:12 AM
Author: Obsidian frozen mother dilemma



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