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

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Big Lebowski almost qualifies, released in 1998 but set in 1...
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I still watch Film
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mean girls was released in 2004 but feels older imo
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There are not a lot - certainly no great films. Add The F...
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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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"period" is a gross word.
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Doesn't qualify with your parameters but Clerks is classic 9...
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Yes, but not a period piece. Lots of movies reflect their t...
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I think Superbad is set in the 2000s but it has a 90s aesthe...
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Same for Napoleon dynamite Technically set in 2003 but ru...
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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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The Creek, the in-universe remake of Season 1 of Dawson's Cr...
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Harry Potter
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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:15 AM
Author: provocative vengeful mental disorder



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:30 AM
Author: Infuriating hunting ground sex offender

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

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:31 AM
Author: Razzle stage multi-billionaire

Who even watches these anymore?

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:31 AM
Author: Bespoke multi-colored international law enforcement agency

I still watch Film

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: Marvelous Carmine Brunch



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:29 PM
Author: Transparent therapy yarmulke

but yet you know nothing of it

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:33 AM
Author: Bespoke multi-colored international law enforcement agency

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: harsh national security agency

mean girls was released in 2004 but feels older imo

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

True Detective season one



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:22 PM
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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:02 PM
Author: provocative vengeful mental disorder

Best answer so far

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:48 AM
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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:23 PM
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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:28 PM
Author: Marvelous Carmine Brunch

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:39 PM
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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:52 AM
Author: provocative vengeful mental disorder

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: Green crawly center

Alpha Dog pops into mind first

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:44 AM
Author: wonderful bipolar water buffalo theater stage

(Nick Cassavetes)

(JT)

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:19 PM
Author: provocative vengeful mental disorder

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: Razzle stage multi-billionaire

How to train your dragon

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:23 PM
Author: cerise excitant striped hyena nibblets

social network.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:44 PM
Author: Maize doctorate theatre

Wolf of Wall Street

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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:23 PM
Author: soul-stirring people who are hurt 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: provocative vengeful mental disorder

Mostly an 80s movie though.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:45 PM
Author: Doobsian irate stage

Speed

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: provocative vengeful mental disorder

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: Avocado Maniacal Gas Station Legend

Autoadmit.com

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: Razzle stage multi-billionaire

Nigger Feet

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: Puce Death Wish

"period" is a gross word.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: Marvelous Carmine Brunch

The Diaper

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:39 PM
Author: Avocado Maniacal Gas Station Legend



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: provocative vengeful mental disorder

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: Marvelous Carmine Brunch



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:08 PM
Author: Avocado Maniacal Gas Station Legend



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:44 AM
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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:49 AM
Author: Avocado Maniacal Gas Station Legend



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:18 PM
Author: bull headed razzle-dazzle space weed whacker

The Queen (2006)

The Fighter (2010)

Erin Brocovich (2000)

I, Tonya (2017)

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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:50 AM
Author: provocative vengeful mental disorder

Thanks for asking Chat to give you answers

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:03 PM
Author: cream medicated wagecucks

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

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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:52 AM
Author: provocative vengeful mental disorder

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: provocative vengeful mental disorder

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: harsh national security agency

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: provocative vengeful mental disorder

Good one

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:52 AM
Author: Aromatic unholy sanctuary chad

lilo and stitch for the same reason

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:55 AM
Author: Avocado Maniacal Gas Station Legend



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Date: June 7th, 2025 4:43 AM
Author: electric haunted graveyard internal respiration



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Date: June 14th, 2025 10:02 AM
Author: provocative vengeful mental disorder

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

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:59 AM
Author: Doobsian irate stage

Road Trip

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:04 AM
Author: Appetizing magenta property

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: Avocado Maniacal Gas Station Legend



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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:10 AM
Author: Anal coffee pot

Pain & Gain

Mid90s

The Informant!

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Date: May 29th, 2025 4:23 AM
Author: lime vivacious bbw

Pain & Gain is probably the best answer ITT

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Date: May 29th, 2025 7:11 AM
Author: Anal coffee pot

Im a Curator

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:35 AM
Author: walnut plaza candlestick maker

Three Kings

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:38 AM
Author: Anal coffee pot

1999

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:44 AM
Author: Diverse associate garrison

One Day (2011)

Love and Other Drugs (2010)

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Date: May 28th, 2025 8:48 PM
Author: chest-beating bonkers heaven

Black Hawk Down

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:13 AM
Author: Honey-headed Fragrant Codepig

this

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Date: May 29th, 2025 7:49 AM
Author: provocative vengeful mental disorder

Lot of nostalgia for 1993 Somalia

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Date: May 29th, 2025 8:44 AM
Author: Bespoke multi-colored international law enforcement agency

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: Exciting silver sandwich community account

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

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Date: May 29th, 2025 4:08 AM
Author: provocative vengeful mental disorder

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

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:14 AM
Author: Honey-headed Fragrant Codepig

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: Doobsian irate stage

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: Honey-headed Fragrant Codepig

tyvmft

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:25 AM
Author: amber patrolman

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: Mint indian lodge stain

Harry Potter

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Date: June 3rd, 2025 3:07 AM
Author: adventurous rose chapel

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: provocative vengeful mental disorder

Good one

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Date: June 3rd, 2025 11:41 AM
Author: lime vivacious bbw



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Date: June 7th, 2025 4:39 AM
Author: concupiscible abode

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: Mint indian lodge stain

It’s criminally underrated

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Date: June 9th, 2025 11:12 AM
Author: concupiscible abode



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