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

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aphrodisiac violet ratface
  05/27/25
Big Lebowski almost qualifies, released in 1998 but set in 1...
Dashing meetinghouse jew
  05/27/25
Who even watches these anymore?
multi-colored know-it-all ladyboy
  05/27/25
I still watch Film
Razzle copper set halford
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federal aggressive point
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aphrodisiac violet ratface
  05/27/25
but yet you know nothing of it
Fragrant free-loading queen of the night rigpig
  05/27/25
Sir, I attended the Werner Herzog Film Seminar, pretty sure ...
Razzle copper set halford
  05/28/25
mean girls was released in 2004 but feels older imo
Fishy toaster principal's office
  05/27/25
True Detective season one
Histrionic brass useless brakes
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effete marketing idea
  05/27/25
Best answer so far
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Motley green windowlicker
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Slippery codepig
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effete marketing idea
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The segways are the second biggest unresolved mystery after ...
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Soggy Disrespectful University Mexican
  05/28/25
Alpha Dog pops into mind first
hyperventilating business firm sound barrier
  05/27/25
(Nick Cassavetes) (JT)
Irradiated Dark Half-breed
  05/29/25
There are not a lot - certainly no great films. Add The F...
aphrodisiac violet ratface
  05/27/25
How to train your dragon
multi-colored know-it-all ladyboy
  05/27/25
social network.
pink arrogant ape dopamine
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Wolf of Wall Street
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Appetizing lettuce
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effete marketing idea
  05/27/25
Mostly an 80s movie though.
aphrodisiac violet ratface
  05/27/25
Speed
Unhinged scourge upon the earth
  05/27/25
I don’t think 1994’s Speed meets one of OP&rsquo...
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Nigger Feet
multi-colored know-it-all ladyboy
  05/27/25
"period" is a gross word.
Electric Frozen Piazza
  05/27/25
The Diaper
federal aggressive point
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effete marketing idea
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I think this has to do with Klosterman’s theory about ...
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effete marketing idea
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Appetizing lettuce
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The Queen (2006) The Fighter (2010) Erin Brocovich (2000) ...
Beady-eyed harsh ticket booth
  05/27/25
Thanks for asking Chat to give you answers
aphrodisiac violet ratface
  05/28/25
Doesn't qualify with your parameters but Clerks is classic 9...
vibrant office
  05/27/25
Yes, but not a period piece. Lots of movies reflect their t...
aphrodisiac violet ratface
  05/28/25
I think Superbad is set in the 2000s but it has a 90s aesthe...
aphrodisiac violet ratface
  05/28/25
Same for Napoleon dynamite Technically set in 2003 but ru...
Fishy toaster principal's office
  05/28/25
Good one
aphrodisiac violet ratface
  05/28/25
lilo and stitch for the same reason
Abusive hot indian lodge
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effete marketing idea
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Nubile Diverse Mother National
  06/07/25
Those tankard bracelets and Deb’s hair are incredibly ...
aphrodisiac violet ratface
  06/14/25
Road Trip
Unhinged scourge upon the earth
  05/28/25
this is difficult imo because 9/11 really wiped clean our me...
Pea-brained Temple Main People
  05/28/25
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effete marketing idea
  05/28/25
Pain & Gain Mid90s The Informant!
up-to-no-good orchestra pit
  05/28/25
Pain & Gain is probably the best answer ITT
Hyperactive racy giraffe national security agency
  05/29/25
Im a Curator
up-to-no-good orchestra pit
  05/29/25
Three Kings
Soggy Disrespectful University Mexican
  05/28/25
1999
up-to-no-good orchestra pit
  05/28/25
One Day (2011) Love and Other Drugs (2010)
Chocolate Philosopher-king
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Black Hawk Down
Swashbuckling Disturbing Property Pozpig
  05/28/25
this
Motley green windowlicker
  05/29/25
Lot of nostalgia for 1993 Somalia
aphrodisiac violet ratface
  05/29/25
I remember playing netdoom in an internet cafe in Berbera ar...
Razzle copper set halford
  05/29/25
the belgian crime drama 'Maldoror' about the marc dutroux ca...
Magical people who are hurt
  05/28/25
I feel like that’s too well known to even bother discu...
aphrodisiac violet ratface
  05/29/25
Is The Departed set in the 1990s? Seemed to be based on the ...
Motley green windowlicker
  05/29/25
No. They were clearly using early 2000s era phones and using...
Unhinged scourge upon the earth
  05/29/25
tyvmft
Motley green windowlicker
  05/29/25
The Creek, the in-universe remake of Season 1 of Dawson's Cr...
glittery partner stage
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Harry Potter
duck-like menage
  06/03/25
The OJ Simpson miniseries that was on FX a few years ago - t...
Wonderful son of senegal
  06/03/25
Good one
aphrodisiac violet ratface
  06/03/25
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Hyperactive racy giraffe national security agency
  06/03/25
tv show but derry girls. wife insisted i watch it. i tho...
bearded amber messiness friendly grandma
  06/07/25
It’s criminally underrated
duck-like menage
  06/08/25
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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:15 AM
Author: aphrodisiac violet ratface



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:30 AM
Author: Dashing meetinghouse jew

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 know-it-all ladyboy

Who even watches these anymore?

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:31 AM
Author: Razzle copper set halford

I still watch Film

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: federal aggressive point



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: aphrodisiac violet ratface



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:29 PM
Author: Fragrant free-loading queen of the night rigpig

but yet you know nothing of it

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:33 AM
Author: Razzle copper set halford

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: Fishy toaster principal's office

mean girls was released in 2004 but feels older imo

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:34 AM
Author: Histrionic brass useless brakes

True Detective season one



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:22 PM
Author: effete marketing idea



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:02 PM
Author: aphrodisiac violet ratface

Best answer so far

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:48 AM
Author: Motley green windowlicker



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:23 PM
Author: Slippery codepig



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:28 PM
Author: federal aggressive point

tp

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:39 PM
Author: effete marketing idea



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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:52 AM
Author: aphrodisiac violet ratface

The segways are the second biggest unresolved mystery after the lawnmower

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:34 AM
Author: Soggy Disrespectful University Mexican



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:38 AM
Author: hyperventilating business firm sound barrier

Alpha Dog pops into mind first

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:44 AM
Author: Irradiated Dark Half-breed

(Nick Cassavetes)

(JT)

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:19 PM
Author: aphrodisiac violet ratface

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 know-it-all ladyboy

How to train your dragon

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:23 PM
Author: pink arrogant ape dopamine

social network.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:44 PM
Author: Mint nofapping trust fund

Wolf of Wall Street

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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:23 PM
Author: Appetizing lettuce



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:24 PM
Author: effete marketing idea



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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:58 PM
Author: aphrodisiac violet ratface

Mostly an 80s movie though.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:45 PM
Author: Unhinged scourge upon the earth

Speed

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: aphrodisiac violet ratface

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: effete marketing idea

Autoadmit.com

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: multi-colored know-it-all ladyboy

Nigger Feet

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: Electric Frozen Piazza

"period" is a gross word.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: federal aggressive point

The Diaper

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:39 PM
Author: effete marketing idea



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: aphrodisiac violet ratface

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: federal aggressive point



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:08 PM
Author: effete marketing idea



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:44 AM
Author: Appetizing lettuce



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:49 AM
Author: effete marketing idea



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:18 PM
Author: Beady-eyed harsh ticket booth

The Queen (2006)

The Fighter (2010)

Erin Brocovich (2000)

I, Tonya (2017)

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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:50 AM
Author: aphrodisiac violet ratface

Thanks for asking Chat to give you answers

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:03 PM
Author: vibrant office

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

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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:52 AM
Author: aphrodisiac violet ratface

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: aphrodisiac violet ratface

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: Fishy toaster principal's office

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: aphrodisiac violet ratface

Good one

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:52 AM
Author: Abusive hot indian lodge

lilo and stitch for the same reason

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:55 AM
Author: effete marketing idea



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Date: June 7th, 2025 4:43 AM
Author: Nubile Diverse Mother National



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Date: June 14th, 2025 10:02 AM
Author: aphrodisiac violet ratface

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

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:59 AM
Author: Unhinged scourge upon the earth

Road Trip

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:04 AM
Author: Pea-brained Temple Main People

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: effete marketing idea



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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:10 AM
Author: up-to-no-good orchestra pit

Pain & Gain

Mid90s

The Informant!

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Date: May 29th, 2025 4:23 AM
Author: Hyperactive racy giraffe national security agency

Pain & Gain is probably the best answer ITT

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Date: May 29th, 2025 7:11 AM
Author: up-to-no-good orchestra pit

Im a Curator

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:35 AM
Author: Soggy Disrespectful University Mexican

Three Kings

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:38 AM
Author: up-to-no-good orchestra pit

1999

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:44 AM
Author: Chocolate Philosopher-king

One Day (2011)

Love and Other Drugs (2010)

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Date: May 28th, 2025 8:48 PM
Author: Swashbuckling Disturbing Property Pozpig

Black Hawk Down

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:13 AM
Author: Motley green windowlicker

this

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Date: May 29th, 2025 7:49 AM
Author: aphrodisiac violet ratface

Lot of nostalgia for 1993 Somalia

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Date: May 29th, 2025 8:44 AM
Author: Razzle copper set halford

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: Magical people who are hurt

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

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Date: May 29th, 2025 4:08 AM
Author: aphrodisiac violet ratface

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 green windowlicker

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: Unhinged scourge upon the earth

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 green windowlicker

tyvmft

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:25 AM
Author: glittery partner 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: duck-like menage

Harry Potter

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Date: June 3rd, 2025 3:07 AM
Author: Wonderful son of senegal

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: aphrodisiac violet ratface

Good one

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Date: June 3rd, 2025 11:41 AM
Author: Hyperactive racy giraffe national security agency



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Date: June 7th, 2025 4:39 AM
Author: bearded amber messiness friendly grandma

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: duck-like menage

It’s criminally underrated

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Date: June 9th, 2025 11:12 AM
Author: bearded amber messiness friendly grandma



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