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

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Exciting Point Messiness
  05/27/25
Big Lebowski almost qualifies, released in 1998 but set in 1...
deep glittery twinkling uncleanness
  05/27/25
Who even watches these anymore?
mewling stock car associate
  05/27/25
I still watch Film
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Exciting Point Messiness
  05/27/25
but yet you know nothing of it
opaque zippy step-uncle's house striped hyena
  05/27/25
Sir, I attended the Werner Herzog Film Seminar, pretty sure ...
soul-stirring haunting heaven dragon
  05/28/25
mean girls was released in 2004 but feels older imo
swashbuckling hairy legs dilemma
  05/27/25
True Detective season one
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Spectacular round eye chad
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Best answer so far
Exciting Point Messiness
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Insanely Creepy Degenerate Lay
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The segways are the second biggest unresolved mystery after ...
Exciting Point Messiness
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Brilliant senate puppy
  05/28/25
Alpha Dog pops into mind first
Onyx Principal's Office
  05/27/25
(Nick Cassavetes) (JT)
crystalline reading party temple
  05/29/25
There are not a lot - certainly no great films. Add The F...
Exciting Point Messiness
  05/27/25
How to train your dragon
mewling stock car associate
  05/27/25
social network.
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Wolf of Wall Street
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Spectacular round eye chad
  05/27/25
Mostly an 80s movie though.
Exciting Point Messiness
  05/27/25
Speed
coral arrogant cuckoldry sanctuary
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I don’t think 1994’s Speed meets one of OP&rsquo...
Exciting Point Messiness
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  05/27/25
Nigger Feet
mewling stock car associate
  05/27/25
"period" is a gross word.
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  05/27/25
The Diaper
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Spectacular round eye chad
  05/27/25
I think this has to do with Klosterman’s theory about ...
Exciting Point Messiness
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The Queen (2006) The Fighter (2010) Erin Brocovich (2000) ...
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Thanks for asking Chat to give you answers
Exciting Point Messiness
  05/28/25
Doesn't qualify with your parameters but Clerks is classic 9...
Motley pearl chapel
  05/27/25
Yes, but not a period piece. Lots of movies reflect their t...
Exciting Point Messiness
  05/28/25
I think Superbad is set in the 2000s but it has a 90s aesthe...
Exciting Point Messiness
  05/28/25
Same for Napoleon dynamite Technically set in 2003 but ru...
swashbuckling hairy legs dilemma
  05/28/25
Good one
Exciting Point Messiness
  05/28/25
lilo and stitch for the same reason
flesh outnumbered international law enforcement agency
  05/28/25
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Spectacular round eye chad
  05/28/25
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adventurous candlestick maker gay wizard
  06/07/25
Those tankard bracelets and Deb’s hair are incredibly ...
Exciting Point Messiness
  06/14/25
Road Trip
coral arrogant cuckoldry sanctuary
  05/28/25
this is difficult imo because 9/11 really wiped clean our me...
Rambunctious heady indirect expression
  05/28/25
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Spectacular round eye chad
  05/28/25
Pain & Gain Mid90s The Informant!
zombie-like saffron tank
  05/28/25
Pain & Gain is probably the best answer ITT
stirring knife
  05/29/25
Im a Curator
zombie-like saffron tank
  05/29/25
Three Kings
Brilliant senate puppy
  05/28/25
1999
zombie-like saffron tank
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One Day (2011) Love and Other Drugs (2010)
Alcoholic bawdyhouse
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Black Hawk Down
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this
primrose ungodly pozpig mother
  05/29/25
Lot of nostalgia for 1993 Somalia
Exciting Point Messiness
  05/29/25
I remember playing netdoom in an internet cafe in Berbera ar...
soul-stirring haunting heaven dragon
  05/29/25
the belgian crime drama 'Maldoror' about the marc dutroux ca...
self-absorbed school
  05/28/25
I feel like that’s too well known to even bother discu...
Exciting Point Messiness
  05/29/25
Is The Departed set in the 1990s? Seemed to be based on the ...
primrose ungodly pozpig mother
  05/29/25
No. They were clearly using early 2000s era phones and using...
coral arrogant cuckoldry sanctuary
  05/29/25
tyvmft
primrose ungodly pozpig mother
  05/29/25
The Creek, the in-universe remake of Season 1 of Dawson's Cr...
confused business firm
  05/29/25
Harry Potter
cyan market
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The OJ Simpson miniseries that was on FX a few years ago - t...
Chocolate home
  06/03/25
Good one
Exciting Point Messiness
  06/03/25
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stirring knife
  06/03/25
tv show but derry girls. wife insisted i watch it. i tho...
aromatic balding juggernaut feces
  06/07/25
It’s criminally underrated
cyan market
  06/08/25
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  06/09/25


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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:15 AM
Author: Exciting Point Messiness



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:30 AM
Author: deep glittery twinkling uncleanness

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

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:31 AM
Author: mewling stock car associate

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: soul-stirring haunting heaven dragon

I still watch Film

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: bespoke cerise filthpig



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: Exciting Point Messiness



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:29 PM
Author: opaque zippy step-uncle's house striped hyena

but yet you know nothing of it

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:33 AM
Author: soul-stirring haunting heaven dragon

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: swashbuckling hairy legs dilemma

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: avocado demanding voyeur

True Detective season one



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:22 PM
Author: Spectacular round eye chad



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:02 PM
Author: Exciting Point Messiness

Best answer so far

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:48 AM
Author: primrose ungodly pozpig mother



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:23 PM
Author: Insanely Creepy Degenerate Lay



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:28 PM
Author: bespoke cerise filthpig

tp

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:39 PM
Author: Spectacular round eye chad



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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:52 AM
Author: Exciting Point Messiness

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: Brilliant senate puppy



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:38 AM
Author: Onyx Principal's Office

Alpha Dog pops into mind first

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:44 AM
Author: crystalline reading party temple

(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: Exciting Point Messiness

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: mewling stock car associate

How to train your dragon

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:23 PM
Author: irate comical alpha native

social network.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:44 PM
Author: odious carnelian property

Wolf of Wall Street

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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:23 PM
Author: cream supple national



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:24 PM
Author: Spectacular round eye chad



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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:58 PM
Author: Exciting Point Messiness

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: coral arrogant cuckoldry sanctuary

Speed

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: Exciting Point Messiness

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: Spectacular round eye chad

Autoadmit.com

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: mewling stock car associate

Nigger Feet

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: Internet-worthy shaky rehab boistinker

"period" is a gross word.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: bespoke cerise filthpig

The Diaper

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:39 PM
Author: Spectacular round eye chad



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: Exciting Point Messiness

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: bespoke cerise filthpig



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:08 PM
Author: Spectacular round eye chad



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:44 AM
Author: cream supple national



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:49 AM
Author: Spectacular round eye chad



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:18 PM
Author: stimulating base pistol

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: Exciting Point Messiness

Thanks for asking Chat to give you answers

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:03 PM
Author: Motley pearl chapel

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: Exciting Point Messiness

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: Exciting Point Messiness

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: swashbuckling hairy legs dilemma

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: Exciting Point Messiness

Good one

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:52 AM
Author: flesh outnumbered international law enforcement agency

lilo and stitch for the same reason

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:55 AM
Author: Spectacular round eye chad



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Date: June 7th, 2025 4:43 AM
Author: adventurous candlestick maker gay wizard



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Date: June 14th, 2025 10:02 AM
Author: Exciting Point Messiness

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: coral arrogant cuckoldry sanctuary

Road Trip

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:04 AM
Author: Rambunctious heady indirect expression

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: Spectacular round eye chad



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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:10 AM
Author: zombie-like saffron tank

Pain & Gain

Mid90s

The Informant!

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Date: May 29th, 2025 4:23 AM
Author: stirring knife

Pain & Gain is probably the best answer ITT

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Date: May 29th, 2025 7:11 AM
Author: zombie-like saffron tank

Im a Curator

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:35 AM
Author: Brilliant senate puppy

Three Kings

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:38 AM
Author: zombie-like saffron tank

1999

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:44 AM
Author: Alcoholic bawdyhouse

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: talented piazza pervert

Black Hawk Down

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:13 AM
Author: primrose ungodly pozpig mother

this

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Date: May 29th, 2025 7:49 AM
Author: Exciting Point Messiness

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: soul-stirring haunting heaven dragon

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: self-absorbed school

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: Exciting Point Messiness

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: primrose ungodly pozpig mother

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: coral arrogant cuckoldry sanctuary

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: primrose ungodly pozpig mother

tyvmft

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:25 AM
Author: confused business firm

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: cyan market

Harry Potter

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Date: June 3rd, 2025 3:07 AM
Author: Chocolate home

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: Exciting Point Messiness

Good one

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Date: June 3rd, 2025 11:41 AM
Author: stirring knife



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Date: June 7th, 2025 4:39 AM
Author: aromatic balding juggernaut feces

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: cyan market

It’s criminally underrated

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Date: June 9th, 2025 11:12 AM
Author: aromatic balding juggernaut feces



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