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

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Soggy bespoke affirmative action
  05/27/25
Big Lebowski almost qualifies, released in 1998 but set in 1...
180 crystalline piazza
  05/27/25
Who even watches these anymore?
Carnelian range
  05/27/25
I still watch Film
Chrome National
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Soggy bespoke affirmative action
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but yet you know nothing of it
Confused boyish chad kitchen
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Sir, I attended the Werner Herzog Film Seminar, pretty sure ...
Chrome National
  05/28/25
mean girls was released in 2004 but feels older imo
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  05/27/25
True Detective season one
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puce infuriating garrison
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Best answer so far
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The segways are the second biggest unresolved mystery after ...
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milky charismatic toilet seat
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Alpha Dog pops into mind first
Dashing Address Faggotry
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(Nick Cassavetes) (JT)
salmon place of business idiot
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There are not a lot - certainly no great films. Add The F...
Soggy bespoke affirmative action
  05/27/25
How to train your dragon
Carnelian range
  05/27/25
social network.
Naked mental disorder
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Wolf of Wall Street
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Thirsty Dysfunction
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puce infuriating garrison
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Mostly an 80s movie though.
Soggy bespoke affirmative action
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Speed
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I don’t think 1994’s Speed meets one of OP&rsquo...
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Nigger Feet
Carnelian range
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"period" is a gross word.
opaque institution
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The Diaper
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puce infuriating garrison
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I think this has to do with Klosterman’s theory about ...
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puce infuriating garrison
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puce infuriating garrison
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The Queen (2006) The Fighter (2010) Erin Brocovich (2000) ...
glittery generalized bond
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Thanks for asking Chat to give you answers
Soggy bespoke affirmative action
  05/28/25
Doesn't qualify with your parameters but Clerks is classic 9...
Flesh sinister plaza
  05/27/25
Yes, but not a period piece. Lots of movies reflect their t...
Soggy bespoke affirmative action
  05/28/25
I think Superbad is set in the 2000s but it has a 90s aesthe...
Soggy bespoke affirmative action
  05/28/25
Same for Napoleon dynamite Technically set in 2003 but ru...
clear masturbator crackhouse
  05/28/25
Good one
Soggy bespoke affirmative action
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lilo and stitch for the same reason
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puce infuriating garrison
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seedy forgotten rural area of central california
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Road Trip
Abusive vermilion twinkling uncleanness theatre
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this is difficult imo because 9/11 really wiped clean our me...
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puce infuriating garrison
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Pain & Gain Mid90s The Informant!
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Pain & Gain is probably the best answer ITT
slimy locus
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Im a Curator
Bull headed corn cake parlour
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Three Kings
milky charismatic toilet seat
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1999
Bull headed corn cake parlour
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One Day (2011) Love and Other Drugs (2010)
Obsidian irate shrine sound barrier
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Black Hawk Down
Appetizing weed whacker locale
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this
Disturbing Vivacious State Persian
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Lot of nostalgia for 1993 Somalia
Soggy bespoke affirmative action
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I remember playing netdoom in an internet cafe in Berbera ar...
Chrome National
  05/29/25
the belgian crime drama 'Maldoror' about the marc dutroux ca...
bistre aphrodisiac fortuitous meteor immigrant
  05/28/25
I feel like that’s too well known to even bother discu...
Soggy bespoke affirmative action
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Is The Departed set in the 1990s? Seemed to be based on the ...
Disturbing Vivacious State Persian
  05/29/25
No. They were clearly using early 2000s era phones and using...
Abusive vermilion twinkling uncleanness theatre
  05/29/25
tyvmft
Disturbing Vivacious State Persian
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The Creek, the in-universe remake of Season 1 of Dawson's Cr...
brilliant passionate ladyboy hell
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Harry Potter
Chocolate church
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The OJ Simpson miniseries that was on FX a few years ago - t...
gay karate
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Good one
Soggy bespoke affirmative action
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slimy locus
  06/03/25
tv show but derry girls. wife insisted i watch it. i tho...
Brother Peter Dimond
  06/07/25
It’s criminally underrated
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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:15 AM
Author: Soggy bespoke affirmative action



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:30 AM
Author: 180 crystalline piazza

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

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:31 AM
Author: Carnelian range

Who even watches these anymore?

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:31 AM
Author: Chrome National

I still watch Film

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: stubborn out-of-control alpha



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: Soggy bespoke affirmative action



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:29 PM
Author: Confused boyish chad kitchen

but yet you know nothing of it

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:33 AM
Author: Chrome National

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: clear masturbator crackhouse

mean girls was released in 2004 but feels older imo

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:34 AM
Author: adventurous orange abode boiling water

True Detective season one



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:22 PM
Author: puce infuriating garrison



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:02 PM
Author: Soggy bespoke affirmative action

Best answer so far

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:48 AM
Author: Disturbing Vivacious State Persian



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:23 PM
Author: Swashbuckling athletic conference



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:28 PM
Author: stubborn out-of-control alpha

tp

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:39 PM
Author: puce infuriating garrison



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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:52 AM
Author: Soggy bespoke affirmative action

The segways are the second biggest unresolved mystery after the lawnmower

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:34 AM
Author: milky charismatic toilet seat



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:38 AM
Author: Dashing Address Faggotry

Alpha Dog pops into mind first

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:44 AM
Author: salmon place of business idiot

(Nick Cassavetes)

(JT)

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:19 PM
Author: Soggy bespoke affirmative action

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: Carnelian range

How to train your dragon

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:23 PM
Author: Naked mental disorder

social network.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:44 PM
Author: stimulating misunderstood french chef orchestra pit

Wolf of Wall Street

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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:23 PM
Author: Thirsty Dysfunction



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:24 PM
Author: puce infuriating garrison



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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:58 PM
Author: Soggy bespoke affirmative action

Mostly an 80s movie though.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:45 PM
Author: Abusive vermilion twinkling uncleanness theatre

Speed

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: Soggy bespoke affirmative action

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: puce infuriating garrison

Autoadmit.com

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: Carnelian range

Nigger Feet

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: opaque institution

"period" is a gross word.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: stubborn out-of-control alpha

The Diaper

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:39 PM
Author: puce infuriating garrison



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: Soggy bespoke affirmative action

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: stubborn out-of-control alpha



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:08 PM
Author: puce infuriating garrison



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:44 AM
Author: Thirsty Dysfunction



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:49 AM
Author: puce infuriating garrison



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:18 PM
Author: glittery generalized bond

The Queen (2006)

The Fighter (2010)

Erin Brocovich (2000)

I, Tonya (2017)

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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:50 AM
Author: Soggy bespoke affirmative action

Thanks for asking Chat to give you answers

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:03 PM
Author: Flesh sinister plaza

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: Soggy bespoke affirmative action

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: Soggy bespoke affirmative action

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: clear masturbator crackhouse

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: Soggy bespoke affirmative action

Good one

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:52 AM
Author: Pale heady church building internal respiration

lilo and stitch for the same reason

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:55 AM
Author: puce infuriating garrison



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Date: June 7th, 2025 4:43 AM
Author: seedy forgotten rural area of central california



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:59 AM
Author: Abusive vermilion twinkling uncleanness theatre

Road Trip

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:04 AM
Author: chest-beating aromatic bbw

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

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:14 AM
Author: puce infuriating garrison



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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:10 AM
Author: Bull headed corn cake parlour

Pain & Gain

Mid90s

The Informant!

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Date: May 29th, 2025 4:23 AM
Author: slimy locus

Pain & Gain is probably the best answer ITT

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Date: May 29th, 2025 7:11 AM
Author: Bull headed corn cake parlour

Im a Curator

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:35 AM
Author: milky charismatic toilet seat

Three Kings

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:38 AM
Author: Bull headed corn cake parlour

1999

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:44 AM
Author: Obsidian irate shrine sound barrier

One Day (2011)

Love and Other Drugs (2010)

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Date: May 28th, 2025 8:48 PM
Author: Appetizing weed whacker locale

Black Hawk Down

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:13 AM
Author: Disturbing Vivacious State Persian

this

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Date: May 29th, 2025 7:49 AM
Author: Soggy bespoke affirmative action

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: Chrome National

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=2#48970015)



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Date: May 28th, 2025 8:54 PM
Author: bistre aphrodisiac fortuitous meteor immigrant

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: Soggy bespoke affirmative action

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: Disturbing Vivacious State Persian

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: Abusive vermilion twinkling uncleanness theatre

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: Disturbing Vivacious State Persian

tyvmft

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:25 AM
Author: brilliant passionate ladyboy hell

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: Chocolate church

Harry Potter

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Date: June 3rd, 2025 3:07 AM
Author: gay karate

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: Soggy bespoke affirmative action

Good one

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



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Date: June 3rd, 2025 11:41 AM
Author: slimy locus



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Date: June 7th, 2025 4:39 AM
Author: Brother Peter Dimond

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: Pumonymous

It’s criminally underrated

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Date: June 9th, 2025 11:12 AM
Author: Brother Peter Dimond



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