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

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hairraiser twinkling deer antler
  05/27/25
Big Lebowski almost qualifies, released in 1998 but set in 1...
Plum organic girlfriend house
  05/27/25
Who even watches these anymore?
sepia office voyeur
  05/27/25
I still watch Film
abnormal persian area
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Aromatic fighting headpube space
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hairraiser twinkling deer antler
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but yet you know nothing of it
Brilliant dashing new version
  05/27/25
Sir, I attended the Werner Herzog Film Seminar, pretty sure ...
abnormal persian area
  05/28/25
mean girls was released in 2004 but feels older imo
sadistic transparent corner cuckold
  05/27/25
True Detective season one
honey-headed talented forum
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Cheese-eating Vivacious Idiot
  05/27/25
Best answer so far
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bipolar ratface
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dark fear-inspiring locus telephone
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tp
Aromatic fighting headpube space
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Cheese-eating Vivacious Idiot
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The segways are the second biggest unresolved mystery after ...
hairraiser twinkling deer antler
  05/28/25
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khaki lay preventive strike
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Alpha Dog pops into mind first
Exciting gaping
  05/27/25
(Nick Cassavetes) (JT)
doobsian flirting center
  05/29/25
There are not a lot - certainly no great films. Add The F...
hairraiser twinkling deer antler
  05/27/25
How to train your dragon
sepia office voyeur
  05/27/25
social network.
Multi-colored slap-happy institution pisswyrm
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Wolf of Wall Street
Flushed razzle-dazzle step-uncle's house karate
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fuchsia awkward garrison legend
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Cheese-eating Vivacious Idiot
  05/27/25
Mostly an 80s movie though.
hairraiser twinkling deer antler
  05/27/25
Speed
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I don’t think 1994’s Speed meets one of OP&rsquo...
hairraiser twinkling deer antler
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Cheese-eating Vivacious Idiot
  05/27/25
Nigger Feet
sepia office voyeur
  05/27/25
"period" is a gross word.
histrionic out-of-control pervert
  05/27/25
The Diaper
Aromatic fighting headpube space
  05/27/25
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Cheese-eating Vivacious Idiot
  05/27/25
I think this has to do with Klosterman’s theory about ...
hairraiser twinkling deer antler
  05/27/25
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Aromatic fighting headpube space
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Cheese-eating Vivacious Idiot
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fuchsia awkward garrison legend
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Cheese-eating Vivacious Idiot
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The Queen (2006) The Fighter (2010) Erin Brocovich (2000) ...
coral spectacular native
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Thanks for asking Chat to give you answers
hairraiser twinkling deer antler
  05/28/25
Doesn't qualify with your parameters but Clerks is classic 9...
exhilarant ladyboy potus
  05/27/25
Yes, but not a period piece. Lots of movies reflect their t...
hairraiser twinkling deer antler
  05/28/25
I think Superbad is set in the 2000s but it has a 90s aesthe...
hairraiser twinkling deer antler
  05/28/25
Same for Napoleon dynamite Technically set in 2003 but ru...
sadistic transparent corner cuckold
  05/28/25
Good one
hairraiser twinkling deer antler
  05/28/25
lilo and stitch for the same reason
aphrodisiac national security agency crackhouse
  05/28/25
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Cheese-eating Vivacious Idiot
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Appetizing coldplay fan
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Those tankard bracelets and Deb’s hair are incredibly ...
hairraiser twinkling deer antler
  06/14/25
Road Trip
bossy amethyst affirmative action
  05/28/25
this is difficult imo because 9/11 really wiped clean our me...
Stirring purple bawdyhouse
  05/28/25
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Cheese-eating Vivacious Idiot
  05/28/25
Pain & Gain Mid90s The Informant!
Zombie-like heaven
  05/28/25
Pain & Gain is probably the best answer ITT
bateful lettuce trust fund
  05/29/25
Im a Curator
Zombie-like heaven
  05/29/25
Three Kings
khaki lay preventive strike
  05/28/25
1999
Zombie-like heaven
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One Day (2011) Love and Other Drugs (2010)
stubborn crystalline principal's office
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Black Hawk Down
Comical set bbw
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this
bipolar ratface
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Lot of nostalgia for 1993 Somalia
hairraiser twinkling deer antler
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I remember playing netdoom in an internet cafe in Berbera ar...
abnormal persian area
  05/29/25
the belgian crime drama 'Maldoror' about the marc dutroux ca...
Sable toaster hall
  05/28/25
I feel like that’s too well known to even bother discu...
hairraiser twinkling deer antler
  05/29/25
Is The Departed set in the 1990s? Seemed to be based on the ...
bipolar ratface
  05/29/25
No. They were clearly using early 2000s era phones and using...
bossy amethyst affirmative action
  05/29/25
tyvmft
bipolar ratface
  05/29/25
The Creek, the in-universe remake of Season 1 of Dawson's Cr...
Electric Hunting Ground
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Harry Potter
chestnut vibrant home
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The OJ Simpson miniseries that was on FX a few years ago - t...
bronze reading party fortuitous meteor
  06/03/25
Good one
hairraiser twinkling deer antler
  06/03/25
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bateful lettuce trust fund
  06/03/25
tv show but derry girls. wife insisted i watch it. i tho...
lilac mischievous mental disorder
  06/07/25
It’s criminally underrated
chestnut vibrant home
  06/08/25
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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:15 AM
Author: hairraiser twinkling deer antler



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:30 AM
Author: Plum organic girlfriend house

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

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



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:31 AM
Author: sepia office voyeur

Who even watches these anymore?

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:31 AM
Author: abnormal persian area

I still watch Film

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: Aromatic fighting headpube space



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: hairraiser twinkling deer antler



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:29 PM
Author: Brilliant dashing new version

but yet you know nothing of it

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:33 AM
Author: abnormal persian area

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=2Elisa#48967267)



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:32 AM
Author: sadistic transparent corner cuckold

mean girls was released in 2004 but feels older imo

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



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:34 AM
Author: honey-headed talented forum

True Detective season one



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:22 PM
Author: Cheese-eating Vivacious Idiot



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:02 PM
Author: hairraiser twinkling deer antler

Best answer so far

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



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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:48 AM
Author: bipolar ratface



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:23 PM
Author: dark fear-inspiring locus telephone



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:28 PM
Author: Aromatic fighting headpube space

tp

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:39 PM
Author: Cheese-eating Vivacious Idiot



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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:52 AM
Author: hairraiser twinkling deer antler

The segways are the second biggest unresolved mystery after the lawnmower

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



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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:34 AM
Author: khaki lay preventive strike



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:38 AM
Author: Exciting gaping

Alpha Dog pops into mind first

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:44 AM
Author: doobsian flirting center

(Nick Cassavetes)

(JT)

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:19 PM
Author: hairraiser twinkling deer antler

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=2Elisa#48964843)



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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:22 PM
Author: sepia office voyeur

How to train your dragon

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:23 PM
Author: Multi-colored slap-happy institution pisswyrm

social network.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:44 PM
Author: Flushed razzle-dazzle step-uncle's house karate

Wolf of Wall Street

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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:23 PM
Author: fuchsia awkward garrison legend



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:24 PM
Author: Cheese-eating Vivacious Idiot



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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:58 PM
Author: hairraiser twinkling deer antler

Mostly an 80s movie though.

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



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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:45 PM
Author: bossy amethyst affirmative action

Speed

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: hairraiser twinkling deer antler

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

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



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:24 PM
Author: Cheese-eating Vivacious Idiot

Autoadmit.com

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: sepia office voyeur

Nigger Feet

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: histrionic out-of-control pervert

"period" is a gross word.

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



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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: Aromatic fighting headpube space

The Diaper

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:39 PM
Author: Cheese-eating Vivacious Idiot



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: hairraiser twinkling deer antler

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=2Elisa#48966422)



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: Aromatic fighting headpube space



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:08 PM
Author: Cheese-eating Vivacious Idiot



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:44 AM
Author: fuchsia awkward garrison legend



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:49 AM
Author: Cheese-eating Vivacious Idiot



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:18 PM
Author: coral spectacular native

The Queen (2006)

The Fighter (2010)

Erin Brocovich (2000)

I, Tonya (2017)

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



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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:50 AM
Author: hairraiser twinkling deer antler

Thanks for asking Chat to give you answers

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



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:03 PM
Author: exhilarant ladyboy potus

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

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



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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:52 AM
Author: hairraiser twinkling deer antler

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=2Elisa#48966871)



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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:54 AM
Author: hairraiser twinkling deer antler

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=2Elisa#48966875)



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Date: May 28th, 2025 7:05 AM
Author: sadistic transparent corner cuckold

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=2Elisa#48966880)



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:43 AM
Author: hairraiser twinkling deer antler

Good one

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



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:52 AM
Author: aphrodisiac national security agency crackhouse

lilo and stitch for the same reason

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



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:55 AM
Author: Cheese-eating Vivacious Idiot



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Date: June 7th, 2025 4:43 AM
Author: Appetizing coldplay fan



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Date: June 14th, 2025 10:02 AM
Author: hairraiser twinkling deer antler

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

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



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:59 AM
Author: bossy amethyst affirmative action

Road Trip

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:04 AM
Author: Stirring purple bawdyhouse

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=2Elisa#48967167)



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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:14 AM
Author: Cheese-eating Vivacious Idiot



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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:10 AM
Author: Zombie-like heaven

Pain & Gain

Mid90s

The Informant!

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



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Date: May 29th, 2025 4:23 AM
Author: bateful lettuce trust fund

Pain & Gain is probably the best answer ITT

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Date: May 29th, 2025 7:11 AM
Author: Zombie-like heaven

Im a Curator

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:35 AM
Author: khaki lay preventive strike

Three Kings

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:38 AM
Author: Zombie-like heaven

1999

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:44 AM
Author: stubborn crystalline principal's office

One Day (2011)

Love and Other Drugs (2010)

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



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Date: May 28th, 2025 8:48 PM
Author: Comical set bbw

Black Hawk Down

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:13 AM
Author: bipolar ratface

this

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Date: May 29th, 2025 7:49 AM
Author: hairraiser twinkling deer antler

Lot of nostalgia for 1993 Somalia

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



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Date: May 29th, 2025 8:44 AM
Author: abnormal persian area

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=2Elisa#48970015)



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Date: May 28th, 2025 8:54 PM
Author: Sable toaster hall

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2Elisa#48969260)



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Date: May 29th, 2025 4:08 AM
Author: hairraiser twinkling deer antler

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

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



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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:14 AM
Author: bipolar ratface

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=2Elisa#48969841)



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Date: May 29th, 2025 6:44 AM
Author: bossy amethyst affirmative action

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=2Elisa#48969890)



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Date: May 29th, 2025 6:44 AM
Author: bipolar ratface

tyvmft

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:25 AM
Author: Electric Hunting Ground

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

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



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Date: June 3rd, 2025 1:22 AM
Author: chestnut vibrant home

Harry Potter

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



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Date: June 3rd, 2025 3:07 AM
Author: bronze reading party fortuitous meteor

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=2Elisa#48982587)



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Date: June 3rd, 2025 10:09 AM
Author: hairraiser twinkling deer antler

Good one

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Date: June 3rd, 2025 11:41 AM
Author: bateful lettuce trust fund



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Date: June 7th, 2025 4:39 AM
Author: lilac mischievous mental disorder

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=2Elisa#48994100)



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Date: June 8th, 2025 8:34 PM
Author: chestnut vibrant home

It’s criminally underrated

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



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Date: June 9th, 2025 11:12 AM
Author: lilac mischievous mental disorder



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