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

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violent curious bawdyhouse
  05/27/25
Big Lebowski almost qualifies, released in 1998 but set in 1...
Glittery plaza
  05/27/25
Who even watches these anymore?
Charcoal misunderstood space
  05/27/25
I still watch Film
Violent unholy rehab indirect expression
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startled theatre boistinker
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violent curious bawdyhouse
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but yet you know nothing of it
vigorous painfully honest nowag half-breed
  05/27/25
Sir, I attended the Werner Herzog Film Seminar, pretty sure ...
Violent unholy rehab indirect expression
  05/28/25
mean girls was released in 2004 but feels older imo
lime balding den
  05/27/25
True Detective season one
Nudist drunken lay mediation
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Racy Meetinghouse
  05/27/25
Best answer so far
violent curious bawdyhouse
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Marvelous avocado old irish cottage
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Dead stage
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tp
startled theatre boistinker
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Racy Meetinghouse
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The segways are the second biggest unresolved mystery after ...
violent curious bawdyhouse
  05/28/25
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exciting hunting ground
  05/28/25
Alpha Dog pops into mind first
Crimson alpha
  05/27/25
(Nick Cassavetes) (JT)
salmon soul-stirring locus stain
  05/29/25
There are not a lot - certainly no great films. Add The F...
violent curious bawdyhouse
  05/27/25
How to train your dragon
Charcoal misunderstood space
  05/27/25
social network.
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Wolf of Wall Street
Startling chapel partner
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Dark galvanic potus
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Racy Meetinghouse
  05/27/25
Mostly an 80s movie though.
violent curious bawdyhouse
  05/27/25
Speed
insecure scourge upon the earth range
  05/27/25
I don’t think 1994’s Speed meets one of OP&rsquo...
violent curious bawdyhouse
  05/27/25
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Racy Meetinghouse
  05/27/25
Nigger Feet
Charcoal misunderstood space
  05/27/25
"period" is a gross word.
indigo thriller location
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The Diaper
startled theatre boistinker
  05/27/25
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Racy Meetinghouse
  05/27/25
I think this has to do with Klosterman’s theory about ...
violent curious bawdyhouse
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startled theatre boistinker
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Racy Meetinghouse
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Dark galvanic potus
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The Queen (2006) The Fighter (2010) Erin Brocovich (2000) ...
dashing striped hyena stead
  05/27/25
Thanks for asking Chat to give you answers
violent curious bawdyhouse
  05/28/25
Doesn't qualify with your parameters but Clerks is classic 9...
vengeful appetizing dragon
  05/27/25
Yes, but not a period piece. Lots of movies reflect their t...
violent curious bawdyhouse
  05/28/25
I think Superbad is set in the 2000s but it has a 90s aesthe...
violent curious bawdyhouse
  05/28/25
Same for Napoleon dynamite Technically set in 2003 but ru...
lime balding den
  05/28/25
Good one
violent curious bawdyhouse
  05/28/25
lilo and stitch for the same reason
vibrant orchestra pit pozpig
  05/28/25
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Racy Meetinghouse
  05/28/25
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Sienna address
  06/07/25
Those tankard bracelets and Deb’s hair are incredibly ...
violent curious bawdyhouse
  06/14/25
Road Trip
insecure scourge upon the earth range
  05/28/25
this is difficult imo because 9/11 really wiped clean our me...
nubile degenerate
  05/28/25
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Racy Meetinghouse
  05/28/25
Pain & Gain Mid90s The Informant!
chestnut stage
  05/28/25
Pain & Gain is probably the best answer ITT
Cerebral mother
  05/29/25
Im a Curator
chestnut stage
  05/29/25
Three Kings
exciting hunting ground
  05/28/25
1999
chestnut stage
  05/28/25
One Day (2011) Love and Other Drugs (2010)
unhinged arousing place of business
  05/28/25
Black Hawk Down
Rebellious home cuckold
  05/28/25
this
Marvelous avocado old irish cottage
  05/29/25
Lot of nostalgia for 1993 Somalia
violent curious bawdyhouse
  05/29/25
I remember playing netdoom in an internet cafe in Berbera ar...
Violent unholy rehab indirect expression
  05/29/25
the belgian crime drama 'Maldoror' about the marc dutroux ca...
Turquoise godawful volcanic crater
  05/28/25
I feel like that’s too well known to even bother discu...
violent curious bawdyhouse
  05/29/25
Is The Departed set in the 1990s? Seemed to be based on the ...
Marvelous avocado old irish cottage
  05/29/25
No. They were clearly using early 2000s era phones and using...
insecure scourge upon the earth range
  05/29/25
tyvmft
Marvelous avocado old irish cottage
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The Creek, the in-universe remake of Season 1 of Dawson's Cr...
aquamarine dog poop
  05/29/25
Harry Potter
very tactful motley parlour
  06/03/25
The OJ Simpson miniseries that was on FX a few years ago - t...
Bonkers Abode
  06/03/25
Good one
violent curious bawdyhouse
  06/03/25
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Cerebral mother
  06/03/25
tv show but derry girls. wife insisted i watch it. i tho...
High-end pit mad cow disease
  06/07/25
It’s criminally underrated
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  06/08/25
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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:15 AM
Author: violent curious bawdyhouse



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:30 AM
Author: Glittery plaza

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: Charcoal misunderstood space

Who even watches these anymore?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2Elisa#48964678)



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:31 AM
Author: Violent unholy rehab indirect expression

I still watch Film

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



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: violent curious bawdyhouse



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:29 PM
Author: vigorous painfully honest nowag half-breed

but yet you know nothing of it

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:33 AM
Author: Violent unholy rehab indirect expression

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: lime balding den

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: Nudist drunken lay mediation

True Detective season one



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:22 PM
Author: Racy Meetinghouse



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:02 PM
Author: violent curious bawdyhouse

Best answer so far

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:48 AM
Author: Marvelous avocado old irish cottage



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:23 PM
Author: Dead stage



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

tp

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:39 PM
Author: Racy Meetinghouse



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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:52 AM
Author: violent curious bawdyhouse

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: exciting hunting ground



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:38 AM
Author: Crimson alpha

Alpha Dog pops into mind first

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:44 AM
Author: salmon soul-stirring locus stain

(Nick Cassavetes)

(JT)

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:19 PM
Author: violent curious bawdyhouse

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: Charcoal misunderstood space

How to train your dragon

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:23 PM
Author: Offensive bbw death wish

social network.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:44 PM
Author: Startling chapel partner

Wolf of Wall Street

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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:23 PM
Author: Dark galvanic potus



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:24 PM
Author: Racy Meetinghouse



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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:58 PM
Author: violent curious bawdyhouse

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: insecure scourge upon the earth range

Speed

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: violent curious bawdyhouse

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: Racy Meetinghouse

Autoadmit.com

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: Charcoal misunderstood space

Nigger Feet

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: indigo thriller location

"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: startled theatre boistinker

The Diaper

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:39 PM
Author: Racy Meetinghouse



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: violent curious bawdyhouse

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: startled theatre boistinker



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:08 PM
Author: Racy Meetinghouse



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:44 AM
Author: Dark galvanic potus



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:49 AM
Author: Racy Meetinghouse



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:18 PM
Author: dashing striped hyena stead

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: violent curious bawdyhouse

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: vengeful appetizing dragon

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: violent curious bawdyhouse

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: violent curious bawdyhouse

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: lime balding den

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: violent curious bawdyhouse

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: vibrant orchestra pit pozpig

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: Racy Meetinghouse



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Date: June 7th, 2025 4:43 AM
Author: Sienna address



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Date: June 14th, 2025 10:02 AM
Author: violent curious bawdyhouse

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: insecure scourge upon the earth range

Road Trip

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:04 AM
Author: nubile degenerate

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: Racy Meetinghouse



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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:10 AM
Author: chestnut stage

Pain & Gain

Mid90s

The Informant!

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Date: May 29th, 2025 4:23 AM
Author: Cerebral mother

Pain & Gain is probably the best answer ITT

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Date: May 29th, 2025 7:11 AM
Author: chestnut stage

Im a Curator

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:35 AM
Author: exciting hunting ground

Three Kings

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:38 AM
Author: chestnut stage

1999

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:44 AM
Author: unhinged arousing place of business

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: Rebellious home cuckold

Black Hawk Down

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:13 AM
Author: Marvelous avocado old irish cottage

this

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Date: May 29th, 2025 7:49 AM
Author: violent curious bawdyhouse

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: Violent unholy rehab indirect expression

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: Turquoise godawful volcanic crater

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: violent curious bawdyhouse

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: Marvelous avocado old irish cottage

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: insecure scourge upon the earth range

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: Marvelous avocado old irish cottage

tyvmft

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:25 AM
Author: aquamarine dog poop

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: very tactful motley parlour

Harry Potter

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Date: June 3rd, 2025 3:07 AM
Author: Bonkers Abode

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: violent curious bawdyhouse

Good one

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



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Date: June 3rd, 2025 11:41 AM
Author: Cerebral mother



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Date: June 7th, 2025 4:39 AM
Author: High-end pit mad cow disease

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: very tactful motley parlour

It’s criminally underrated

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Date: June 9th, 2025 11:12 AM
Author: High-end pit mad cow disease



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