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

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Passionate Walnut Lay
  05/27/25
Big Lebowski almost qualifies, released in 1998 but set in 1...
Blathering national security agency son of senegal
  05/27/25
Who even watches these anymore?
iridescent area idea he suggested
  05/27/25
I still watch Film
Talented Idiot Heaven
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flushed pontificating trump supporter
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Passionate Walnut Lay
  05/27/25
but yet you know nothing of it
ruby soul-stirring quadroon
  05/27/25
Sir, I attended the Werner Herzog Film Seminar, pretty sure ...
Talented Idiot Heaven
  05/28/25
mean girls was released in 2004 but feels older imo
Stirring Lilac Hall
  05/27/25
True Detective season one
brindle orchestra pit
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histrionic half-breed friendly grandma
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Best answer so far
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useless giraffe
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canary motley nursing home
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tp
flushed pontificating trump supporter
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histrionic half-breed friendly grandma
  05/27/25
The segways are the second biggest unresolved mystery after ...
Passionate Walnut Lay
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carnelian parlor fat ankles
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Alpha Dog pops into mind first
Mind-boggling insanely creepy cumskin station
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(Nick Cassavetes) (JT)
Crawly Pistol Casino
  05/29/25
There are not a lot - certainly no great films. Add The F...
Passionate Walnut Lay
  05/27/25
How to train your dragon
iridescent area idea he suggested
  05/27/25
social network.
180 Sick Twinkling Uncleanness Whorehouse
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Wolf of Wall Street
irradiated pit love of her life
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crystalline box office
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histrionic half-breed friendly grandma
  05/27/25
Mostly an 80s movie though.
Passionate Walnut Lay
  05/27/25
Speed
Brilliant filthy nibblets
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I don’t think 1994’s Speed meets one of OP&rsquo...
Passionate Walnut Lay
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histrionic half-breed friendly grandma
  05/27/25
Nigger Feet
iridescent area idea he suggested
  05/27/25
"period" is a gross word.
Mustard becky
  05/27/25
The Diaper
flushed pontificating trump supporter
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histrionic half-breed friendly grandma
  05/27/25
I think this has to do with Klosterman’s theory about ...
Passionate Walnut Lay
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flushed pontificating trump supporter
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histrionic half-breed friendly grandma
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crystalline box office
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histrionic half-breed friendly grandma
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The Queen (2006) The Fighter (2010) Erin Brocovich (2000) ...
Diverse Onyx Old Irish Cottage Locus
  05/27/25
Thanks for asking Chat to give you answers
Passionate Walnut Lay
  05/28/25
Doesn't qualify with your parameters but Clerks is classic 9...
white national
  05/27/25
Yes, but not a period piece. Lots of movies reflect their t...
Passionate Walnut Lay
  05/28/25
I think Superbad is set in the 2000s but it has a 90s aesthe...
Passionate Walnut Lay
  05/28/25
Same for Napoleon dynamite Technically set in 2003 but ru...
Stirring Lilac Hall
  05/28/25
Good one
Passionate Walnut Lay
  05/28/25
lilo and stitch for the same reason
Geriatric stimulating rehab
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histrionic half-breed friendly grandma
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Mildly Autistic Milky Laser Beams
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Those tankard bracelets and Deb’s hair are incredibly ...
Passionate Walnut Lay
  06/14/25
Road Trip
Brilliant filthy nibblets
  05/28/25
this is difficult imo because 9/11 really wiped clean our me...
navy cruel-hearted ape
  05/28/25
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histrionic half-breed friendly grandma
  05/28/25
Pain & Gain Mid90s The Informant!
twinkling out-of-control crackhouse kitty cat
  05/28/25
Pain & Gain is probably the best answer ITT
Chartreuse Startled Abode Hunting Ground
  05/29/25
Im a Curator
twinkling out-of-control crackhouse kitty cat
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Three Kings
carnelian parlor fat ankles
  05/28/25
1999
twinkling out-of-control crackhouse kitty cat
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One Day (2011) Love and Other Drugs (2010)
light heady temple
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Black Hawk Down
Exhilarant Frum Gas Station
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this
useless giraffe
  05/29/25
Lot of nostalgia for 1993 Somalia
Passionate Walnut Lay
  05/29/25
I remember playing netdoom in an internet cafe in Berbera ar...
Talented Idiot Heaven
  05/29/25
the belgian crime drama 'Maldoror' about the marc dutroux ca...
Silver razzmatazz rigpig cruise ship
  05/28/25
I feel like that’s too well known to even bother discu...
Passionate Walnut Lay
  05/29/25
Is The Departed set in the 1990s? Seemed to be based on the ...
useless giraffe
  05/29/25
No. They were clearly using early 2000s era phones and using...
Brilliant filthy nibblets
  05/29/25
tyvmft
useless giraffe
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The Creek, the in-universe remake of Season 1 of Dawson's Cr...
Maroon Brunch Fortuitous Meteor
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Harry Potter
Pink house
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The OJ Simpson miniseries that was on FX a few years ago - t...
supple azn
  06/03/25
Good one
Passionate Walnut Lay
  06/03/25
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Chartreuse Startled Abode Hunting Ground
  06/03/25
tv show but derry girls. wife insisted i watch it. i tho...
Razzle well-lubricated forum knife
  06/07/25
It’s criminally underrated
Pink house
  06/08/25
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Razzle well-lubricated forum knife
  06/09/25


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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:15 AM
Author: Passionate Walnut Lay



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:30 AM
Author: Blathering national security agency son of senegal

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: iridescent area idea he suggested

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: Talented Idiot Heaven

I still watch Film

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: flushed pontificating trump supporter



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: Passionate Walnut Lay



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:29 PM
Author: ruby soul-stirring quadroon

but yet you know nothing of it

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2Elisa#48966485)



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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:33 AM
Author: Talented Idiot Heaven

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: Stirring Lilac Hall

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: brindle orchestra pit

True Detective season one



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2Elisa#48964695)



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:22 PM
Author: histrionic half-breed friendly grandma



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:02 PM
Author: Passionate Walnut Lay

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: useless giraffe



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:23 PM
Author: canary motley nursing home



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:28 PM
Author: flushed pontificating trump supporter

tp

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:39 PM
Author: histrionic half-breed friendly grandma



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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:52 AM
Author: Passionate Walnut Lay

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: carnelian parlor fat ankles



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:38 AM
Author: Mind-boggling insanely creepy cumskin station

Alpha Dog pops into mind first

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2Elisa#48964710)



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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:44 AM
Author: Crawly Pistol Casino

(Nick Cassavetes)

(JT)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2Elisa#48969853)



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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:19 PM
Author: Passionate Walnut Lay

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: iridescent area idea he suggested

How to train your dragon

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



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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:23 PM
Author: 180 Sick Twinkling Uncleanness Whorehouse

social network.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2Elisa#48964854)



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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:44 PM
Author: irradiated pit love of her life

Wolf of Wall Street

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2Elisa#48964882)



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:23 PM
Author: crystalline box office



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:24 PM
Author: histrionic half-breed friendly grandma



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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:58 PM
Author: Passionate Walnut Lay

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: Brilliant filthy nibblets

Speed

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2Elisa#48964883)



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: Passionate Walnut Lay

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: histrionic half-breed friendly grandma

Autoadmit.com

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2Elisa#48965030)



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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: iridescent area idea he suggested

Nigger Feet

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2Elisa#48966411)



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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: Mustard becky

"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: flushed pontificating trump supporter

The Diaper

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:39 PM
Author: histrionic half-breed friendly grandma



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: Passionate Walnut Lay

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: flushed pontificating trump supporter



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:08 PM
Author: histrionic half-breed friendly grandma



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:44 AM
Author: crystalline box office



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:49 AM
Author: histrionic half-breed friendly grandma



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:18 PM
Author: Diverse Onyx Old Irish Cottage Locus

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: Passionate Walnut Lay

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: white national

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: Passionate Walnut Lay

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: Passionate Walnut Lay

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: Stirring Lilac Hall

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: Passionate Walnut Lay

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: Geriatric stimulating rehab

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: histrionic half-breed friendly grandma



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Date: June 7th, 2025 4:43 AM
Author: Mildly Autistic Milky Laser Beams



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Date: June 14th, 2025 10:02 AM
Author: Passionate Walnut Lay

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: Brilliant filthy nibblets

Road Trip

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2Elisa#48967148)



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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:04 AM
Author: navy cruel-hearted ape

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: histrionic half-breed friendly grandma



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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:10 AM
Author: twinkling out-of-control crackhouse kitty cat

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: Chartreuse Startled Abode Hunting Ground

Pain & Gain is probably the best answer ITT

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



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Date: May 29th, 2025 7:11 AM
Author: twinkling out-of-control crackhouse kitty cat

Im a Curator

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:35 AM
Author: carnelian parlor fat ankles

Three Kings

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



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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:38 AM
Author: twinkling out-of-control crackhouse kitty cat

1999

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:44 AM
Author: light heady temple

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: Exhilarant Frum Gas Station

Black Hawk Down

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



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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:13 AM
Author: useless giraffe

this

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



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Date: May 29th, 2025 7:49 AM
Author: Passionate Walnut Lay

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: Talented Idiot Heaven

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: Silver razzmatazz rigpig cruise ship

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: Passionate Walnut Lay

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: useless giraffe

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: Brilliant filthy nibblets

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: useless giraffe

tyvmft

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:25 AM
Author: Maroon Brunch Fortuitous Meteor

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: Pink house

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: supple azn

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: Passionate Walnut Lay

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: Chartreuse Startled Abode Hunting Ground



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Date: June 7th, 2025 4:39 AM
Author: Razzle well-lubricated forum knife

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: Pink house

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: Razzle well-lubricated forum knife



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