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

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floppy whorehouse
  05/27/25
Big Lebowski almost qualifies, released in 1998 but set in 1...
doobsian liquid oxygen
  05/27/25
Who even watches these anymore?
curious pea-brained sanctuary codepig
  05/27/25
I still watch Film
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floppy whorehouse
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but yet you know nothing of it
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Sir, I attended the Werner Herzog Film Seminar, pretty sure ...
Heady digit ratio
  05/28/25
mean girls was released in 2004 but feels older imo
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  05/27/25
True Detective season one
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The segways are the second biggest unresolved mystery after ...
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Alpha Dog pops into mind first
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(Nick Cassavetes) (JT)
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  05/29/25
There are not a lot - certainly no great films. Add The F...
floppy whorehouse
  05/27/25
How to train your dragon
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social network.
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Wolf of Wall Street
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Mostly an 80s movie though.
floppy whorehouse
  05/27/25
Speed
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I don’t think 1994’s Speed meets one of OP&rsquo...
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  05/27/25
"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
floppy whorehouse
  05/28/25
Doesn't qualify with your parameters but Clerks is classic 9...
tripping citrine philosopher-king
  05/27/25
Yes, but not a period piece. Lots of movies reflect their t...
floppy whorehouse
  05/28/25
I think Superbad is set in the 2000s but it has a 90s aesthe...
floppy whorehouse
  05/28/25
Same for Napoleon dynamite Technically set in 2003 but ru...
motley property multi-billionaire
  05/28/25
Good one
floppy whorehouse
  05/28/25
lilo and stitch for the same reason
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out-of-control theater stage selfie
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Beady-eyed mauve gas station
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Those tankard bracelets and Deb’s hair are incredibly ...
floppy whorehouse
  06/14/25
Road Trip
naked business firm
  05/28/25
this is difficult imo because 9/11 really wiped clean our me...
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  05/28/25
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out-of-control theater stage selfie
  05/28/25
Pain & Gain Mid90s The Informant!
Vermilion kitchen ceo
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Pain & Gain is probably the best answer ITT
Big-titted contagious jew school
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Im a Curator
Vermilion kitchen ceo
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Three Kings
pearly location
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1999
Vermilion kitchen ceo
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One Day (2011) Love and Other Drugs (2010)
Rusted Office Ratface
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Black Hawk Down
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this
Judgmental diverse deer antler
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Lot of nostalgia for 1993 Somalia
floppy whorehouse
  05/29/25
I remember playing netdoom in an internet cafe in Berbera ar...
Heady digit ratio
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the belgian crime drama 'Maldoror' about the marc dutroux ca...
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I feel like that’s too well known to even bother discu...
floppy whorehouse
  05/29/25
Is The Departed set in the 1990s? Seemed to be based on the ...
Judgmental diverse deer antler
  05/29/25
No. They were clearly using early 2000s era phones and using...
naked business firm
  05/29/25
tyvmft
Judgmental diverse deer antler
  05/29/25
The Creek, the in-universe remake of Season 1 of Dawson's Cr...
Copper love of her life voyeur
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Harry Potter
Trip step-uncle's house
  06/03/25
The OJ Simpson miniseries that was on FX a few years ago - t...
charismatic alcoholic elastic band shrine
  06/03/25
Good one
floppy whorehouse
  06/03/25
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Big-titted contagious jew school
  06/03/25
tv show but derry girls. wife insisted i watch it. i tho...
Slimy boiling water
  06/07/25
It’s criminally underrated
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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:15 AM
Author: floppy whorehouse



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:30 AM
Author: doobsian liquid oxygen

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

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:31 AM
Author: curious pea-brained sanctuary codepig

Who even watches these anymore?

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:31 AM
Author: Heady digit ratio

I still watch Film

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: Bronze Cerebral Cuckold



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: floppy whorehouse



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:29 PM
Author: multi-colored internet-worthy stag film sandwich

but yet you know nothing of it

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:33 AM
Author: Heady digit ratio

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: motley property multi-billionaire

mean girls was released in 2004 but feels older imo

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:34 AM
Author: buff foreskin space

True Detective season one



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:22 PM
Author: out-of-control theater stage selfie



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:02 PM
Author: floppy whorehouse

Best answer so far

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:48 AM
Author: Judgmental diverse deer antler



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:23 PM
Author: Demanding Forum Kitty Cat



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:28 PM
Author: Bronze Cerebral Cuckold

tp

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:39 PM
Author: out-of-control theater stage selfie



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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:52 AM
Author: floppy whorehouse

The segways are the second biggest unresolved mystery after the lawnmower

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:34 AM
Author: pearly location



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:38 AM
Author: Seedy hyperventilating striped hyena

Alpha Dog pops into mind first

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:44 AM
Author: vigorous senate water buffalo

(Nick Cassavetes)

(JT)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2#48969853)



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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:19 PM
Author: floppy whorehouse

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: curious pea-brained sanctuary codepig

How to train your dragon

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:23 PM
Author: Racy federal halford hall

social network.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:44 PM
Author: khaki soul-stirring box office

Wolf of Wall Street

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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:23 PM
Author: drab partner round eye



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:24 PM
Author: out-of-control theater stage selfie



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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:58 PM
Author: floppy whorehouse

Mostly an 80s movie though.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:45 PM
Author: naked business firm

Speed

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: floppy whorehouse

I don’t think 1994’s Speed meets one of OP’s criteria.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2#48966424)



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:24 PM
Author: out-of-control theater stage selfie

Autoadmit.com

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: curious pea-brained sanctuary codepig

Nigger Feet

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: Geriatric concupiscible gaming laptop

"period" is a gross word.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: Bronze Cerebral Cuckold

The Diaper

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:39 PM
Author: out-of-control theater stage selfie



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: floppy whorehouse

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.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2#48966422)



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: Bronze Cerebral Cuckold



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:08 PM
Author: out-of-control theater stage selfie



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:44 AM
Author: drab partner round eye



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:49 AM
Author: out-of-control theater stage selfie



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:18 PM
Author: umber organic girlfriend home

The Queen (2006)

The Fighter (2010)

Erin Brocovich (2000)

I, Tonya (2017)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2#48966468)



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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:50 AM
Author: floppy whorehouse

Thanks for asking Chat to give you answers

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:03 PM
Author: tripping citrine philosopher-king

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

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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:52 AM
Author: floppy whorehouse

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.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2#48966871)



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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:54 AM
Author: floppy whorehouse

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.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2#48966875)



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Date: May 28th, 2025 7:05 AM
Author: motley property multi-billionaire

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: floppy whorehouse

Good one

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:52 AM
Author: Grizzly deep nursing home

lilo and stitch for the same reason

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:55 AM
Author: out-of-control theater stage selfie



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Date: June 7th, 2025 4:43 AM
Author: Beady-eyed mauve gas station



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Date: June 14th, 2025 10:02 AM
Author: floppy whorehouse

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

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:59 AM
Author: naked business firm

Road Trip

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:04 AM
Author: Twinkling Spot Travel Guidebook

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: out-of-control theater stage selfie



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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:10 AM
Author: Vermilion kitchen ceo

Pain & Gain

Mid90s

The Informant!

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Date: May 29th, 2025 4:23 AM
Author: Big-titted contagious jew school

Pain & Gain is probably the best answer ITT

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Date: May 29th, 2025 7:11 AM
Author: Vermilion kitchen ceo

Im a Curator

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:35 AM
Author: pearly location

Three Kings

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:38 AM
Author: Vermilion kitchen ceo

1999

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:44 AM
Author: Rusted Office Ratface

One Day (2011)

Love and Other Drugs (2010)

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Date: May 28th, 2025 8:48 PM
Author: cracking azure library fanboi

Black Hawk Down

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:13 AM
Author: Judgmental diverse deer antler

this

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Date: May 29th, 2025 7:49 AM
Author: floppy whorehouse

Lot of nostalgia for 1993 Somalia

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2#48969956)



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Date: May 29th, 2025 8:44 AM
Author: Heady digit ratio

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: electric bipolar wagecucks potus

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: floppy whorehouse

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2#48969800)



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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:14 AM
Author: Judgmental diverse deer antler

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: naked business firm

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: Judgmental diverse deer antler

tyvmft

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:25 AM
Author: Copper love of her life voyeur

The Creek, the in-universe remake of Season 1 of Dawson's Creek.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2#48969850)



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Date: June 3rd, 2025 1:22 AM
Author: Trip step-uncle's house

Harry Potter

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Date: June 3rd, 2025 3:07 AM
Author: charismatic alcoholic elastic band shrine

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: floppy whorehouse

Good one

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Date: June 3rd, 2025 11:41 AM
Author: Big-titted contagious jew school



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Date: June 7th, 2025 4:39 AM
Author: Slimy boiling water

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: Trip step-uncle's house

It’s criminally underrated

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Date: June 9th, 2025 11:12 AM
Author: Slimy boiling water



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