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

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Spectacular dull hominid multi-billionaire
  05/27/25
Big Lebowski almost qualifies, released in 1998 but set in 1...
Thriller Goal In Life
  05/27/25
Who even watches these anymore?
Salmon nursing home people who are hurt
  05/27/25
I still watch Film
Gaped Piazza Karate
  05/27/25
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boyish theatre
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Spectacular dull hominid multi-billionaire
  05/27/25
but yet you know nothing of it
slippery idea he suggested office
  05/27/25
Sir, I attended the Werner Herzog Film Seminar, pretty sure ...
Gaped Piazza Karate
  05/28/25
mean girls was released in 2004 but feels older imo
Cruel-hearted Mustard Gay Wizard
  05/27/25
True Detective season one
greedy coral mad cow disease
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sick bespoke philosopher-king
  05/27/25
Best answer so far
Spectacular dull hominid multi-billionaire
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irradiated private investor institution
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hairraiser pungent address
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tp
boyish theatre
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sick bespoke philosopher-king
  05/27/25
The segways are the second biggest unresolved mystery after ...
Spectacular dull hominid multi-billionaire
  05/28/25
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Twinkling concupiscible crackhouse main people
  05/28/25
Alpha Dog pops into mind first
Ruby swollen kitty cat
  05/27/25
(Nick Cassavetes) (JT)
Insecure rehab
  05/29/25
There are not a lot - certainly no great films. Add The F...
Spectacular dull hominid multi-billionaire
  05/27/25
How to train your dragon
Salmon nursing home people who are hurt
  05/27/25
social network.
Sable library hunting ground
  05/27/25
Wolf of Wall Street
Plum lay
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marvelous unholy business firm
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sick bespoke philosopher-king
  05/27/25
Mostly an 80s movie though.
Spectacular dull hominid multi-billionaire
  05/27/25
Speed
Dun therapy
  05/27/25
I don’t think 1994’s Speed meets one of OP&rsquo...
Spectacular dull hominid multi-billionaire
  05/27/25
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sick bespoke philosopher-king
  05/27/25
Nigger Feet
Salmon nursing home people who are hurt
  05/27/25
"period" is a gross word.
Deranged effete hissy fit home
  05/27/25
The Diaper
boyish theatre
  05/27/25
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sick bespoke philosopher-king
  05/27/25
I think this has to do with Klosterman’s theory about ...
Spectacular dull hominid multi-billionaire
  05/27/25
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boyish theatre
  05/27/25
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sick bespoke philosopher-king
  05/27/25
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marvelous unholy business firm
  05/28/25
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sick bespoke philosopher-king
  05/28/25
The Queen (2006) The Fighter (2010) Erin Brocovich (2000) ...
tan blood rage range
  05/27/25
Thanks for asking Chat to give you answers
Spectacular dull hominid multi-billionaire
  05/28/25
Doesn't qualify with your parameters but Clerks is classic 9...
twisted out-of-control corner
  05/27/25
Yes, but not a period piece. Lots of movies reflect their t...
Spectacular dull hominid multi-billionaire
  05/28/25
I think Superbad is set in the 2000s but it has a 90s aesthe...
Spectacular dull hominid multi-billionaire
  05/28/25
Same for Napoleon dynamite Technically set in 2003 but ru...
Cruel-hearted Mustard Gay Wizard
  05/28/25
Good one
Spectacular dull hominid multi-billionaire
  05/28/25
lilo and stitch for the same reason
shivering ladyboy
  05/28/25
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sick bespoke philosopher-king
  05/28/25
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Big crawly internal respiration legal warrant
  06/07/25
Those tankard bracelets and Deb’s hair are incredibly ...
Spectacular dull hominid multi-billionaire
  06/14/25
Road Trip
Dun therapy
  05/28/25
this is difficult imo because 9/11 really wiped clean our me...
bearded tripping national
  05/28/25
...
sick bespoke philosopher-king
  05/28/25
Pain & Gain Mid90s The Informant!
crystalline flatulent whorehouse volcanic crater
  05/28/25
Pain & Gain is probably the best answer ITT
Useless Dilemma
  05/29/25
Im a Curator
crystalline flatulent whorehouse volcanic crater
  05/29/25
Three Kings
Twinkling concupiscible crackhouse main people
  05/28/25
1999
crystalline flatulent whorehouse volcanic crater
  05/28/25
One Day (2011) Love and Other Drugs (2010)
indecent parlor round eye
  05/28/25
Black Hawk Down
Bipolar church building
  05/28/25
this
irradiated private investor institution
  05/29/25
Lot of nostalgia for 1993 Somalia
Spectacular dull hominid multi-billionaire
  05/29/25
I remember playing netdoom in an internet cafe in Berbera ar...
Gaped Piazza Karate
  05/29/25
the belgian crime drama 'Maldoror' about the marc dutroux ca...
Razzle Principal's Office Rigpig
  05/28/25
I feel like that’s too well known to even bother discu...
Spectacular dull hominid multi-billionaire
  05/29/25
Is The Departed set in the 1990s? Seemed to be based on the ...
irradiated private investor institution
  05/29/25
No. They were clearly using early 2000s era phones and using...
Dun therapy
  05/29/25
tyvmft
irradiated private investor institution
  05/29/25
The Creek, the in-universe remake of Season 1 of Dawson's Cr...
Rough-skinned base travel guidebook
  05/29/25
Harry Potter
Adventurous chapel persian
  06/03/25
The OJ Simpson miniseries that was on FX a few years ago - t...
Saffron dragon
  06/03/25
Good one
Spectacular dull hominid multi-billionaire
  06/03/25
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Useless Dilemma
  06/03/25
tv show but derry girls. wife insisted i watch it. i tho...
deep locus stain
  06/07/25
It’s criminally underrated
Adventurous chapel persian
  06/08/25
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deep locus stain
  06/09/25


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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:15 AM
Author: Spectacular dull hominid multi-billionaire



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:30 AM
Author: Thriller Goal In Life

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

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:31 AM
Author: Salmon nursing home people who are hurt

Who even watches these anymore?

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:31 AM
Author: Gaped Piazza Karate

I still watch Film

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: boyish theatre



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: Spectacular dull hominid multi-billionaire



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:29 PM
Author: slippery idea he suggested office

but yet you know nothing of it

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:33 AM
Author: Gaped Piazza Karate

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: Cruel-hearted Mustard Gay Wizard

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: greedy coral mad cow disease

True Detective season one



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:22 PM
Author: sick bespoke philosopher-king



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:02 PM
Author: Spectacular dull hominid multi-billionaire

Best answer so far

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:48 AM
Author: irradiated private investor institution



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:23 PM
Author: hairraiser pungent address



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:28 PM
Author: boyish theatre

tp

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:39 PM
Author: sick bespoke philosopher-king



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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:52 AM
Author: Spectacular dull hominid multi-billionaire

The segways are the second biggest unresolved mystery after the lawnmower

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:34 AM
Author: Twinkling concupiscible crackhouse main people



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:38 AM
Author: Ruby swollen kitty cat

Alpha Dog pops into mind first

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:44 AM
Author: Insecure rehab

(Nick Cassavetes)

(JT)

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:19 PM
Author: Spectacular dull hominid multi-billionaire

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: Salmon nursing home people who are hurt

How to train your dragon

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:23 PM
Author: Sable library hunting ground

social network.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:44 PM
Author: Plum lay

Wolf of Wall Street

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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:23 PM
Author: marvelous unholy business firm



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:24 PM
Author: sick bespoke philosopher-king



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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:58 PM
Author: Spectacular dull hominid multi-billionaire

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: Dun therapy

Speed

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: Spectacular dull hominid multi-billionaire

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: sick bespoke philosopher-king

Autoadmit.com

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: Salmon nursing home people who are hurt

Nigger Feet

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: Deranged effete hissy fit home

"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: boyish theatre

The Diaper

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:39 PM
Author: sick bespoke philosopher-king



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: Spectacular dull hominid multi-billionaire

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: boyish theatre



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:08 PM
Author: sick bespoke philosopher-king



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:44 AM
Author: marvelous unholy business firm



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:49 AM
Author: sick bespoke philosopher-king



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:18 PM
Author: tan blood rage range

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: Spectacular dull hominid multi-billionaire

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: twisted out-of-control corner

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: Spectacular dull hominid multi-billionaire

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: Spectacular dull hominid multi-billionaire

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: Cruel-hearted Mustard Gay Wizard

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: Spectacular dull hominid multi-billionaire

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: shivering ladyboy

lilo and stitch for the same reason

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:55 AM
Author: sick bespoke philosopher-king



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Date: June 7th, 2025 4:43 AM
Author: Big crawly internal respiration legal warrant



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Date: June 14th, 2025 10:02 AM
Author: Spectacular dull hominid multi-billionaire

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: Dun therapy

Road Trip

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:04 AM
Author: bearded tripping national

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: sick bespoke philosopher-king



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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:10 AM
Author: crystalline flatulent whorehouse volcanic crater

Pain & Gain

Mid90s

The Informant!

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Date: May 29th, 2025 4:23 AM
Author: Useless Dilemma

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: crystalline flatulent whorehouse volcanic crater

Im a Curator

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:35 AM
Author: Twinkling concupiscible crackhouse main people

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: crystalline flatulent whorehouse volcanic crater

1999

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:44 AM
Author: indecent parlor round eye

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: Bipolar church building

Black Hawk Down

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:13 AM
Author: irradiated private investor institution

this

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Date: May 29th, 2025 7:49 AM
Author: Spectacular dull hominid multi-billionaire

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: Gaped Piazza Karate

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: Razzle Principal's Office Rigpig

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: Spectacular dull hominid multi-billionaire

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: irradiated private investor institution

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: Dun therapy

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: irradiated private investor institution

tyvmft

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:25 AM
Author: Rough-skinned base travel guidebook

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: Adventurous chapel persian

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: Saffron dragon

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: Spectacular dull hominid multi-billionaire

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: Useless Dilemma



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Date: June 7th, 2025 4:39 AM
Author: deep locus stain

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: Adventurous chapel persian

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: deep locus stain



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