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

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Scarlet quadroon dragon
  05/27/25
Big Lebowski almost qualifies, released in 1998 but set in 1...
Boyish reading party menage
  05/27/25
Who even watches these anymore?
fantasy-prone pontificating nursing home
  05/27/25
I still watch Film
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cerebral locus
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Scarlet quadroon dragon
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but yet you know nothing of it
peach cracking casino
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Sir, I attended the Werner Herzog Film Seminar, pretty sure ...
flesh spectacular pistol market
  05/28/25
mean girls was released in 2004 but feels older imo
Navy At-the-ready Trailer Park
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True Detective season one
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Self-absorbed maniacal rigor mood
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Best answer so far
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Glittery Sick Stage
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The segways are the second biggest unresolved mystery after ...
Scarlet quadroon dragon
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sepia cocky church building
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Alpha Dog pops into mind first
Domesticated Turdskin
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(Nick Cassavetes) (JT)
Pearl Motley Pit Alpha
  05/29/25
There are not a lot - certainly no great films. Add The F...
Scarlet quadroon dragon
  05/27/25
How to train your dragon
fantasy-prone pontificating nursing home
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social network.
Adulterous Gas Station
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Wolf of Wall Street
exciting orchestra pit
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onyx becky filthpig
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Self-absorbed maniacal rigor mood
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Mostly an 80s movie though.
Scarlet quadroon dragon
  05/27/25
Speed
nubile harsh faggot firefighter yarmulke
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I don’t think 1994’s Speed meets one of OP&rsquo...
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Nigger Feet
fantasy-prone pontificating nursing home
  05/27/25
"period" is a gross word.
fluffy boltzmann
  05/27/25
The Diaper
cerebral locus
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Self-absorbed maniacal rigor mood
  05/27/25
I think this has to do with Klosterman’s theory about ...
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cerebral locus
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Self-absorbed maniacal rigor mood
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The Queen (2006) The Fighter (2010) Erin Brocovich (2000) ...
thriller location gay wizard
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Scarlet quadroon dragon
  05/28/25
Doesn't qualify with your parameters but Clerks is classic 9...
chest-beating stirring love of her life candlestick maker
  05/27/25
Yes, but not a period piece. Lots of movies reflect their t...
Scarlet quadroon dragon
  05/28/25
I think Superbad is set in the 2000s but it has a 90s aesthe...
Scarlet quadroon dragon
  05/28/25
Same for Napoleon dynamite Technically set in 2003 but ru...
Navy At-the-ready Trailer Park
  05/28/25
Good one
Scarlet quadroon dragon
  05/28/25
lilo and stitch for the same reason
Supple University
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Self-absorbed maniacal rigor mood
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elite spot
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Those tankard bracelets and Deb’s hair are incredibly ...
Scarlet quadroon dragon
  06/14/25
Road Trip
nubile harsh faggot firefighter yarmulke
  05/28/25
this is difficult imo because 9/11 really wiped clean our me...
Stimulating khaki institution
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Self-absorbed maniacal rigor mood
  05/28/25
Pain & Gain Mid90s The Informant!
Dashing potus hospital
  05/28/25
Pain & Gain is probably the best answer ITT
Aromatic mexican
  05/29/25
Im a Curator
Dashing potus hospital
  05/29/25
Three Kings
sepia cocky church building
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1999
Dashing potus hospital
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One Day (2011) Love and Other Drugs (2010)
blue shaky plaza
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Black Hawk Down
galvanic filthy people who are hurt
  05/28/25
this
Fragrant orange stead hunting ground
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Lot of nostalgia for 1993 Somalia
Scarlet quadroon dragon
  05/29/25
I remember playing netdoom in an internet cafe in Berbera ar...
flesh spectacular pistol market
  05/29/25
the belgian crime drama 'Maldoror' about the marc dutroux ca...
rose pea-brained whorehouse
  05/28/25
I feel like that’s too well known to even bother discu...
Scarlet quadroon dragon
  05/29/25
Is The Departed set in the 1990s? Seemed to be based on the ...
Fragrant orange stead hunting ground
  05/29/25
No. They were clearly using early 2000s era phones and using...
nubile harsh faggot firefighter yarmulke
  05/29/25
tyvmft
Fragrant orange stead hunting ground
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The Creek, the in-universe remake of Season 1 of Dawson's Cr...
frisky hairraiser stag film
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Harry Potter
vigorous mischievous parlor stock car
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The OJ Simpson miniseries that was on FX a few years ago - t...
bateful legend center
  06/03/25
Good one
Scarlet quadroon dragon
  06/03/25
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Aromatic mexican
  06/03/25
tv show but derry girls. wife insisted i watch it. i tho...
Umber corner
  06/07/25
It’s criminally underrated
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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:15 AM
Author: Scarlet quadroon dragon



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:30 AM
Author: Boyish reading party menage

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

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:31 AM
Author: fantasy-prone pontificating nursing home

Who even watches these anymore?

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:31 AM
Author: flesh spectacular pistol market

I still watch Film

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: cerebral locus



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: Scarlet quadroon dragon



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:29 PM
Author: peach cracking casino

but yet you know nothing of it

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:33 AM
Author: flesh spectacular pistol market

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: Navy At-the-ready Trailer Park

mean girls was released in 2004 but feels older imo

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:34 AM
Author: arrogant exhilarant lodge

True Detective season one



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:22 PM
Author: Self-absorbed maniacal rigor mood



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:02 PM
Author: Scarlet quadroon dragon

Best answer so far

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:48 AM
Author: Fragrant orange stead hunting ground



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:23 PM
Author: Glittery Sick Stage



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:28 PM
Author: cerebral locus

tp

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:39 PM
Author: Self-absorbed maniacal rigor mood



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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:52 AM
Author: Scarlet quadroon dragon

The segways are the second biggest unresolved mystery after the lawnmower

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:34 AM
Author: sepia cocky church building



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:38 AM
Author: Domesticated Turdskin

Alpha Dog pops into mind first

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:44 AM
Author: Pearl Motley Pit Alpha

(Nick Cassavetes)

(JT)

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:19 PM
Author: Scarlet quadroon dragon

There are not a lot - certainly no great films.

Add The Fighter and Spring Breakers

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:22 PM
Author: fantasy-prone pontificating nursing home

How to train your dragon

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:23 PM
Author: Adulterous Gas Station

social network.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:44 PM
Author: exciting orchestra pit

Wolf of Wall Street

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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:23 PM
Author: onyx becky filthpig



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:24 PM
Author: Self-absorbed maniacal rigor mood



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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:58 PM
Author: Scarlet quadroon dragon

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: nubile harsh faggot firefighter yarmulke

Speed

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: Scarlet quadroon dragon

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

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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:24 PM
Author: Self-absorbed maniacal rigor mood

Autoadmit.com

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: fantasy-prone pontificating nursing home

Nigger Feet

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: fluffy boltzmann

"period" is a gross word.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: cerebral locus

The Diaper

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:39 PM
Author: Self-absorbed maniacal rigor mood



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: Scarlet quadroon dragon

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: cerebral locus



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:08 PM
Author: Self-absorbed maniacal rigor mood



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:44 AM
Author: onyx becky filthpig



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:49 AM
Author: Self-absorbed maniacal rigor mood



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:18 PM
Author: thriller location gay wizard

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: Scarlet quadroon dragon

Thanks for asking Chat to give you answers

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:03 PM
Author: chest-beating stirring love of her life candlestick maker

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: Scarlet quadroon dragon

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: Scarlet quadroon dragon

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: Navy At-the-ready Trailer Park

Same for Napoleon dynamite

Technically set in 2003 but rural Idaho was still in 1990

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:43 AM
Author: Scarlet quadroon dragon

Good one

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:52 AM
Author: Supple University

lilo and stitch for the same reason

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:55 AM
Author: Self-absorbed maniacal rigor mood



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Date: June 7th, 2025 4:43 AM
Author: elite spot



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Date: June 14th, 2025 10:02 AM
Author: Scarlet quadroon dragon

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: nubile harsh faggot firefighter yarmulke

Road Trip

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:04 AM
Author: Stimulating khaki institution

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: Self-absorbed maniacal rigor mood



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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:10 AM
Author: Dashing potus hospital

Pain & Gain

Mid90s

The Informant!

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Date: May 29th, 2025 4:23 AM
Author: Aromatic mexican

Pain & Gain is probably the best answer ITT

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Date: May 29th, 2025 7:11 AM
Author: Dashing potus hospital

Im a Curator

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:35 AM
Author: sepia cocky church building

Three Kings

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:38 AM
Author: Dashing potus hospital

1999

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:44 AM
Author: blue shaky plaza

One Day (2011)

Love and Other Drugs (2010)

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Date: May 28th, 2025 8:48 PM
Author: galvanic filthy people who are hurt

Black Hawk Down

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:13 AM
Author: Fragrant orange stead hunting ground

this

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Date: May 29th, 2025 7:49 AM
Author: Scarlet quadroon dragon

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: flesh spectacular pistol market

I remember playing netdoom in an internet cafe in Berbera around then, it was 180.

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Date: May 28th, 2025 8:54 PM
Author: rose pea-brained whorehouse

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: Scarlet quadroon dragon

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: Fragrant orange stead hunting ground

Is The Departed set in the 1990s? Seemed to be based on the tech used

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Date: May 29th, 2025 6:44 AM
Author: nubile harsh faggot firefighter yarmulke

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: Fragrant orange stead hunting ground

tyvmft

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:25 AM
Author: frisky hairraiser stag film

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: vigorous mischievous parlor stock car

Harry Potter

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Date: June 3rd, 2025 3:07 AM
Author: bateful legend center

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: Scarlet quadroon dragon

Good one

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Date: June 3rd, 2025 11:41 AM
Author: Aromatic mexican



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Date: June 7th, 2025 4:39 AM
Author: Umber corner

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: vigorous mischievous parlor stock car

It’s criminally underrated

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Date: June 9th, 2025 11:12 AM
Author: Umber corner



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