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

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Flushed curious skinny woman
  05/27/25
Big Lebowski almost qualifies, released in 1998 but set in 1...
rusted stag film
  05/27/25
Who even watches these anymore?
boyish meetinghouse place of business
  05/27/25
I still watch Film
Carnelian trip stock car french chef
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excitant multi-billionaire trust fund
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Flushed curious skinny woman
  05/27/25
but yet you know nothing of it
Sick mewling faggot firefighter
  05/27/25
Sir, I attended the Werner Herzog Film Seminar, pretty sure ...
Carnelian trip stock car french chef
  05/28/25
mean girls was released in 2004 but feels older imo
milky racy brethren circlehead
  05/27/25
True Detective season one
Motley elite national feces
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Aromatic Fiercely-loyal Filthpig
  05/27/25
Best answer so far
Flushed curious skinny woman
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buck-toothed friendly grandma
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Useless Irradiated Becky Dilemma
  05/27/25
tp
excitant multi-billionaire trust fund
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Aromatic Fiercely-loyal Filthpig
  05/27/25
The segways are the second biggest unresolved mystery after ...
Flushed curious skinny woman
  05/28/25
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claret duck-like roommate
  05/28/25
Alpha Dog pops into mind first
Lavender Cowardly Messiness
  05/27/25
(Nick Cassavetes) (JT)
slap-happy dark box office halford
  05/29/25
There are not a lot - certainly no great films. Add The F...
Flushed curious skinny woman
  05/27/25
How to train your dragon
boyish meetinghouse place of business
  05/27/25
social network.
dull passionate theater ladyboy
  05/27/25
Wolf of Wall Street
Magical Haunted Graveyard
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chest-beating roast beef
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Aromatic Fiercely-loyal Filthpig
  05/27/25
Mostly an 80s movie though.
Flushed curious skinny woman
  05/27/25
Speed
galvanic patrolman base
  05/27/25
I don’t think 1994’s Speed meets one of OP&rsquo...
Flushed curious skinny woman
  05/27/25
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Aromatic Fiercely-loyal Filthpig
  05/27/25
Nigger Feet
boyish meetinghouse place of business
  05/27/25
"period" is a gross word.
Hairless Elastic Band Property
  05/27/25
The Diaper
excitant multi-billionaire trust fund
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Aromatic Fiercely-loyal Filthpig
  05/27/25
I think this has to do with Klosterman’s theory about ...
Flushed curious skinny woman
  05/27/25
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excitant multi-billionaire trust fund
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Aromatic Fiercely-loyal Filthpig
  05/27/25
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chest-beating roast beef
  05/28/25
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Aromatic Fiercely-loyal Filthpig
  05/28/25
The Queen (2006) The Fighter (2010) Erin Brocovich (2000) ...
Glittery Institution Mad-dog Skullcap
  05/27/25
Thanks for asking Chat to give you answers
Flushed curious skinny woman
  05/28/25
Doesn't qualify with your parameters but Clerks is classic 9...
Fragrant obsidian round eye
  05/27/25
Yes, but not a period piece. Lots of movies reflect their t...
Flushed curious skinny woman
  05/28/25
I think Superbad is set in the 2000s but it has a 90s aesthe...
Flushed curious skinny woman
  05/28/25
Same for Napoleon dynamite Technically set in 2003 but ru...
milky racy brethren circlehead
  05/28/25
Good one
Flushed curious skinny woman
  05/28/25
lilo and stitch for the same reason
mischievous copper sandwich forum
  05/28/25
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Aromatic Fiercely-loyal Filthpig
  05/28/25
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lascivious stubborn striped hyena
  06/07/25
Those tankard bracelets and Deb’s hair are incredibly ...
Flushed curious skinny woman
  06/14/25
Road Trip
galvanic patrolman base
  05/28/25
this is difficult imo because 9/11 really wiped clean our me...
Irate 180 Corn Cake
  05/28/25
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Aromatic Fiercely-loyal Filthpig
  05/28/25
Pain & Gain Mid90s The Informant!
Laughsome Misunderstood Useless Brakes
  05/28/25
Pain & Gain is probably the best answer ITT
Bistre Hell
  05/29/25
Im a Curator
Laughsome Misunderstood Useless Brakes
  05/29/25
Three Kings
claret duck-like roommate
  05/28/25
1999
Laughsome Misunderstood Useless Brakes
  05/28/25
One Day (2011) Love and Other Drugs (2010)
frum fortuitous meteor
  05/28/25
Black Hawk Down
appetizing well-lubricated telephone clown
  05/28/25
this
buck-toothed friendly grandma
  05/29/25
Lot of nostalgia for 1993 Somalia
Flushed curious skinny woman
  05/29/25
I remember playing netdoom in an internet cafe in Berbera ar...
Carnelian trip stock car french chef
  05/29/25
the belgian crime drama 'Maldoror' about the marc dutroux ca...
hilarious center
  05/28/25
I feel like that’s too well known to even bother discu...
Flushed curious skinny woman
  05/29/25
Is The Departed set in the 1990s? Seemed to be based on the ...
buck-toothed friendly grandma
  05/29/25
No. They were clearly using early 2000s era phones and using...
galvanic patrolman base
  05/29/25
tyvmft
buck-toothed friendly grandma
  05/29/25
The Creek, the in-universe remake of Season 1 of Dawson's Cr...
Supple Cruise Ship
  05/29/25
Harry Potter
Bearded Field
  06/03/25
The OJ Simpson miniseries that was on FX a few years ago - t...
Multi-colored pistol piazza
  06/03/25
Good one
Flushed curious skinny woman
  06/03/25
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Bistre Hell
  06/03/25
tv show but derry girls. wife insisted i watch it. i tho...
indecent brunch main people
  06/07/25
It’s criminally underrated
Bearded Field
  06/08/25
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indecent brunch main people
  06/09/25


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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:15 AM
Author: Flushed curious skinny woman



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:30 AM
Author: rusted stag film

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: boyish meetinghouse place of business

Who even watches these anymore?

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:31 AM
Author: Carnelian trip stock car french chef

I still watch Film

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: excitant multi-billionaire trust fund



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: Flushed curious skinny woman



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:29 PM
Author: Sick mewling faggot firefighter

but yet you know nothing of it

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:33 AM
Author: Carnelian trip stock car french chef

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: milky racy brethren circlehead

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: Motley elite national feces

True Detective season one



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:22 PM
Author: Aromatic Fiercely-loyal Filthpig



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:02 PM
Author: Flushed curious skinny woman

Best answer so far

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:48 AM
Author: buck-toothed friendly grandma



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:23 PM
Author: Useless Irradiated Becky Dilemma



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:28 PM
Author: excitant multi-billionaire trust fund

tp

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:39 PM
Author: Aromatic Fiercely-loyal Filthpig



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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:52 AM
Author: Flushed curious skinny woman

The segways are the second biggest unresolved mystery after the lawnmower

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:34 AM
Author: claret duck-like roommate



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:38 AM
Author: Lavender Cowardly Messiness

Alpha Dog pops into mind first

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:44 AM
Author: slap-happy dark box office halford

(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: Flushed curious skinny woman

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: boyish meetinghouse place of business

How to train your dragon

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2#48964851)



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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:23 PM
Author: dull passionate theater ladyboy

social network.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:44 PM
Author: Magical Haunted Graveyard

Wolf of Wall Street

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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:23 PM
Author: chest-beating roast beef



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:24 PM
Author: Aromatic Fiercely-loyal Filthpig



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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:58 PM
Author: Flushed curious skinny woman

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: galvanic patrolman base

Speed

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: Flushed curious skinny woman

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: Aromatic Fiercely-loyal Filthpig

Autoadmit.com

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: boyish meetinghouse place of business

Nigger Feet

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: Hairless Elastic Band Property

"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: excitant multi-billionaire trust fund

The Diaper

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:39 PM
Author: Aromatic Fiercely-loyal Filthpig



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: Flushed curious skinny woman

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: excitant multi-billionaire trust fund



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:08 PM
Author: Aromatic Fiercely-loyal Filthpig



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:44 AM
Author: chest-beating roast beef



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:49 AM
Author: Aromatic Fiercely-loyal Filthpig



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:18 PM
Author: Glittery Institution Mad-dog Skullcap

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: Flushed curious skinny woman

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: Fragrant obsidian round eye

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: Flushed curious skinny woman

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: Flushed curious skinny woman

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: milky racy brethren circlehead

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: Flushed curious skinny woman

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: mischievous copper sandwich forum

lilo and stitch for the same reason

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2#48967127)



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:55 AM
Author: Aromatic Fiercely-loyal Filthpig



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Date: June 7th, 2025 4:43 AM
Author: lascivious stubborn striped hyena



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Date: June 14th, 2025 10:02 AM
Author: Flushed curious skinny woman

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: galvanic patrolman base

Road Trip

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:04 AM
Author: Irate 180 Corn Cake

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: Aromatic Fiercely-loyal Filthpig



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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:10 AM
Author: Laughsome Misunderstood Useless Brakes

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: Bistre Hell

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: Laughsome Misunderstood Useless Brakes

Im a Curator

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2#48969916)



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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:35 AM
Author: claret duck-like roommate

Three Kings

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2#48967282)



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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:38 AM
Author: Laughsome Misunderstood Useless Brakes

1999

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2#48967300)



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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:44 AM
Author: frum fortuitous meteor

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: appetizing well-lubricated telephone clown

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: buck-toothed friendly grandma

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: Flushed curious skinny woman

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: Carnelian trip stock car french chef

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: hilarious center

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: Flushed curious skinny woman

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: buck-toothed friendly grandma

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: galvanic patrolman base

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: buck-toothed friendly grandma

tyvmft

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2#48969893)



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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:25 AM
Author: Supple Cruise Ship

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: Bearded Field

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: Multi-colored pistol piazza

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: Flushed curious skinny woman

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: Bistre Hell



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Date: June 7th, 2025 4:39 AM
Author: indecent brunch main people

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: Bearded Field

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: indecent brunch main people



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