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

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Aromatic heaven yarmulke
  05/27/25
Big Lebowski almost qualifies, released in 1998 but set in 1...
up-to-no-good vermilion garrison dysfunction
  05/27/25
Who even watches these anymore?
Rusted house fanboi
  05/27/25
I still watch Film
Ruddy multi-colored theatre
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lemon fighting marketing idea
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Aromatic heaven yarmulke
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but yet you know nothing of it
Nubile fragrant university
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Sir, I attended the Werner Herzog Film Seminar, pretty sure ...
Ruddy multi-colored theatre
  05/28/25
mean girls was released in 2004 but feels older imo
Bateful Pocket Flask
  05/27/25
True Detective season one
exciting abode
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Sooty mind-boggling box office philosopher-king
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Best answer so far
Aromatic heaven yarmulke
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soul-stirring adulterous theater stage
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dead national security agency home
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lemon fighting marketing idea
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Sooty mind-boggling box office philosopher-king
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The segways are the second biggest unresolved mystery after ...
Aromatic heaven yarmulke
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canary hell athletic conference
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Alpha Dog pops into mind first
Hairraiser Mother
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(Nick Cassavetes) (JT)
Charismatic massive mood quadroon
  05/29/25
There are not a lot - certainly no great films. Add The F...
Aromatic heaven yarmulke
  05/27/25
How to train your dragon
Rusted house fanboi
  05/27/25
social network.
domesticated appetizing stead puppy
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Wolf of Wall Street
razzle-dazzle indecent stain brethren
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Sooty mind-boggling box office philosopher-king
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Mostly an 80s movie though.
Aromatic heaven yarmulke
  05/27/25
Speed
Jet-lagged Flatulent Senate Sweet Tailpipe
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I don’t think 1994’s Speed meets one of OP&rsquo...
Aromatic heaven yarmulke
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Sooty mind-boggling box office philosopher-king
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Nigger Feet
Rusted house fanboi
  05/27/25
"period" is a gross word.
Racy Useless Brakes
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The Diaper
lemon fighting marketing idea
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Sooty mind-boggling box office philosopher-king
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I think this has to do with Klosterman’s theory about ...
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lemon fighting marketing idea
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Sooty mind-boggling box office philosopher-king
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Sooty mind-boggling box office philosopher-king
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The Queen (2006) The Fighter (2010) Erin Brocovich (2000) ...
Diverse rough-skinned nursing home
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Thanks for asking Chat to give you answers
Aromatic heaven yarmulke
  05/28/25
Doesn't qualify with your parameters but Clerks is classic 9...
lime rehab
  05/27/25
Yes, but not a period piece. Lots of movies reflect their t...
Aromatic heaven yarmulke
  05/28/25
I think Superbad is set in the 2000s but it has a 90s aesthe...
Aromatic heaven yarmulke
  05/28/25
Same for Napoleon dynamite Technically set in 2003 but ru...
Bateful Pocket Flask
  05/28/25
Good one
Aromatic heaven yarmulke
  05/28/25
lilo and stitch for the same reason
Boyish turquoise stage tattoo
  05/28/25
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Sooty mind-boggling box office philosopher-king
  05/28/25
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abnormal indian lodge
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Those tankard bracelets and Deb’s hair are incredibly ...
Aromatic heaven yarmulke
  06/14/25
Road Trip
Jet-lagged Flatulent Senate Sweet Tailpipe
  05/28/25
this is difficult imo because 9/11 really wiped clean our me...
Ivory trip hall
  05/28/25
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Sooty mind-boggling box office philosopher-king
  05/28/25
Pain & Gain Mid90s The Informant!
Thriller Cream Parlour
  05/28/25
Pain & Gain is probably the best answer ITT
House-broken shitlib range
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Im a Curator
Thriller Cream Parlour
  05/29/25
Three Kings
canary hell athletic conference
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1999
Thriller Cream Parlour
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One Day (2011) Love and Other Drugs (2010)
hyperactive friendly grandma trailer park
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Black Hawk Down
Flesh Sanctuary Jewess
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this
soul-stirring adulterous theater stage
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Lot of nostalgia for 1993 Somalia
Aromatic heaven yarmulke
  05/29/25
I remember playing netdoom in an internet cafe in Berbera ar...
Ruddy multi-colored theatre
  05/29/25
the belgian crime drama 'Maldoror' about the marc dutroux ca...
twisted spruce station
  05/28/25
I feel like that’s too well known to even bother discu...
Aromatic heaven yarmulke
  05/29/25
Is The Departed set in the 1990s? Seemed to be based on the ...
soul-stirring adulterous theater stage
  05/29/25
No. They were clearly using early 2000s era phones and using...
Jet-lagged Flatulent Senate Sweet Tailpipe
  05/29/25
tyvmft
soul-stirring adulterous theater stage
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The Creek, the in-universe remake of Season 1 of Dawson's Cr...
Blathering charcoal cruise ship faggotry
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Harry Potter
tan pea-brained native skinny woman
  06/03/25
The OJ Simpson miniseries that was on FX a few years ago - t...
walnut dashing center
  06/03/25
Good one
Aromatic heaven yarmulke
  06/03/25
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House-broken shitlib range
  06/03/25
tv show but derry girls. wife insisted i watch it. i tho...
adventurous school cafeteria blood rage
  06/07/25
It’s criminally underrated
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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:15 AM
Author: Aromatic heaven yarmulke



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:30 AM
Author: up-to-no-good vermilion garrison dysfunction

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2#48964673)



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:31 AM
Author: Rusted house fanboi

Who even watches these anymore?

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:31 AM
Author: Ruddy multi-colored theatre

I still watch Film

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: lemon fighting marketing idea



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: Aromatic heaven yarmulke



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:29 PM
Author: Nubile fragrant university

but yet you know nothing of it

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:33 AM
Author: Ruddy multi-colored theatre

Sir, I attended the Werner Herzog Film Seminar, pretty sure I know about Film.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2#48967267)



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:32 AM
Author: Bateful Pocket Flask

mean girls was released in 2004 but feels older imo

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2#48964686)



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:34 AM
Author: exciting abode

True Detective season one



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:22 PM
Author: Sooty mind-boggling box office philosopher-king



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:02 PM
Author: Aromatic heaven yarmulke

Best answer so far

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2#48966429)



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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:48 AM
Author: soul-stirring adulterous theater stage



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:23 PM
Author: dead national security agency home



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:28 PM
Author: lemon fighting marketing idea

tp

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:39 PM
Author: Sooty mind-boggling box office philosopher-king



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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:52 AM
Author: Aromatic heaven yarmulke

The segways are the second biggest unresolved mystery after the lawnmower

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2#48966872)



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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:34 AM
Author: canary hell athletic conference



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:38 AM
Author: Hairraiser Mother

Alpha Dog pops into mind first

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:44 AM
Author: Charismatic massive mood quadroon

(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: Aromatic heaven yarmulke

There are not a lot - certainly no great films.

Add The Fighter and Spring Breakers

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2#48964843)



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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:22 PM
Author: Rusted house fanboi

How to train your dragon

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:23 PM
Author: domesticated appetizing stead puppy

social network.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:44 PM
Author: razzle-dazzle indecent stain brethren

Wolf of Wall Street

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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:23 PM
Author: talking henna juggernaut



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:24 PM
Author: Sooty mind-boggling box office philosopher-king



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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:58 PM
Author: Aromatic heaven yarmulke

Mostly an 80s movie though.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2#48966409)



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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:45 PM
Author: Jet-lagged Flatulent Senate Sweet Tailpipe

Speed

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: Aromatic heaven yarmulke

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: Sooty mind-boggling box office philosopher-king

Autoadmit.com

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: Rusted house fanboi

Nigger Feet

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: Racy Useless Brakes

"period" is a gross word.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2#48966412)



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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: lemon fighting marketing idea

The Diaper

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:39 PM
Author: Sooty mind-boggling box office philosopher-king



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: Aromatic heaven yarmulke

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: lemon fighting marketing idea



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:08 PM
Author: Sooty mind-boggling box office philosopher-king



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:44 AM
Author: talking henna juggernaut



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:49 AM
Author: Sooty mind-boggling box office philosopher-king



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:18 PM
Author: Diverse rough-skinned nursing 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: Aromatic heaven yarmulke

Thanks for asking Chat to give you answers

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2#48966869)



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:03 PM
Author: lime rehab

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2#48966568)



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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:52 AM
Author: Aromatic heaven yarmulke

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: Aromatic heaven yarmulke

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: Bateful Pocket Flask

Same for Napoleon dynamite

Technically set in 2003 but rural Idaho was still in 1990

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2#48966880)



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:43 AM
Author: Aromatic heaven yarmulke

Good one

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2#48967107)



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:52 AM
Author: Boyish turquoise stage tattoo

lilo and stitch for the same reason

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:55 AM
Author: Sooty mind-boggling box office philosopher-king



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Date: June 7th, 2025 4:43 AM
Author: abnormal indian lodge



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Date: June 14th, 2025 10:02 AM
Author: Aromatic heaven yarmulke

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2#49014596)



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:59 AM
Author: Jet-lagged Flatulent Senate Sweet Tailpipe

Road Trip

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:04 AM
Author: Ivory trip hall

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2#48967167)



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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:14 AM
Author: Sooty mind-boggling box office philosopher-king



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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:10 AM
Author: Thriller Cream Parlour

Pain & Gain

Mid90s

The Informant!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2#48967189)



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Date: May 29th, 2025 4:23 AM
Author: House-broken shitlib range

Pain & Gain is probably the best answer ITT

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2#48969811)



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Date: May 29th, 2025 7:11 AM
Author: Thriller Cream Parlour

Im a Curator

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:35 AM
Author: canary hell athletic conference

Three Kings

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:38 AM
Author: Thriller Cream Parlour

1999

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:44 AM
Author: hyperactive friendly grandma trailer park

One Day (2011)

Love and Other Drugs (2010)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2#48967320)



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Date: May 28th, 2025 8:48 PM
Author: Flesh Sanctuary Jewess

Black Hawk Down

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2#48969241)



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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:13 AM
Author: soul-stirring adulterous theater stage

this

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2#48969840)



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Date: May 29th, 2025 7:49 AM
Author: Aromatic heaven yarmulke

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: Ruddy multi-colored theatre

I remember playing netdoom in an internet cafe in Berbera around then, it was 180.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2#48970015)



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Date: May 28th, 2025 8:54 PM
Author: twisted spruce station

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: Aromatic heaven yarmulke

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: soul-stirring adulterous theater stage

Is The Departed set in the 1990s? Seemed to be based on the tech used

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2#48969841)



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Date: May 29th, 2025 6:44 AM
Author: Jet-lagged Flatulent Senate Sweet Tailpipe

No. They were clearly using early 2000s era phones and using the number pad for texting. Also Alec Baldwins character mentions the Patriot Act

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2#48969890)



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Date: May 29th, 2025 6:44 AM
Author: soul-stirring adulterous theater stage

tyvmft

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:25 AM
Author: Blathering charcoal cruise ship faggotry

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: tan pea-brained native skinny woman

Harry Potter

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2#48982501)



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Date: June 3rd, 2025 3:07 AM
Author: walnut dashing center

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: Aromatic heaven yarmulke

Good one

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2#48983011)



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Date: June 3rd, 2025 11:41 AM
Author: House-broken shitlib range



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Date: June 7th, 2025 4:39 AM
Author: adventurous school cafeteria blood rage

tv show but derry girls.

wife insisted i watch it. i thought it would suck but it’s 180

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2#48994100)



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Date: June 8th, 2025 8:34 PM
Author: tan pea-brained native skinny woman

It’s criminally underrated

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2#48997950)



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Date: June 9th, 2025 11:12 AM
Author: adventurous school cafeteria blood rage



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