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

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Plum lascivious ratface
  05/27/25
Big Lebowski almost qualifies, released in 1998 but set in 1...
Copper federal roast beef location
  05/27/25
Who even watches these anymore?
Bright embarrassed to the bone garrison telephone
  05/27/25
I still watch Film
contagious main people
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spectacular green area gaping
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Plum lascivious ratface
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but yet you know nothing of it
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Sir, I attended the Werner Herzog Film Seminar, pretty sure ...
contagious main people
  05/28/25
mean girls was released in 2004 but feels older imo
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True Detective season one
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blathering queen of the night police squad
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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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Alpha Dog pops into mind first
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(Nick Cassavetes) (JT)
angry dashing menage degenerate
  05/29/25
There are not a lot - certainly no great films. Add The F...
Plum lascivious ratface
  05/27/25
How to train your dragon
Bright embarrassed to the bone garrison telephone
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social network.
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Wolf of Wall Street
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blathering queen of the night police squad
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Mostly an 80s movie though.
Plum lascivious ratface
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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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blathering queen of the night police squad
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Nigger Feet
Bright embarrassed to the bone garrison telephone
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"period" is a gross word.
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The Diaper
spectacular green area gaping
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blathering queen of the night police squad
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I think this has to do with Klosterman’s theory about ...
Plum lascivious ratface
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spectacular green area gaping
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blathering queen of the night police squad
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blathering queen of the night police squad
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The Queen (2006) The Fighter (2010) Erin Brocovich (2000) ...
glassy french jap
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Thanks for asking Chat to give you answers
Plum lascivious ratface
  05/28/25
Doesn't qualify with your parameters but Clerks is classic 9...
Soul-stirring Office Wagecucks
  05/27/25
Yes, but not a period piece. Lots of movies reflect their t...
Plum lascivious ratface
  05/28/25
I think Superbad is set in the 2000s but it has a 90s aesthe...
Plum lascivious ratface
  05/28/25
Same for Napoleon dynamite Technically set in 2003 but ru...
Fragrant Khaki Personal Credit Line
  05/28/25
Good one
Plum lascivious ratface
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lilo and stitch for the same reason
obsidian shrine
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blathering queen of the night police squad
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light whorehouse nowag
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Those tankard bracelets and Deb’s hair are incredibly ...
Plum lascivious ratface
  06/14/25
Road Trip
Hyperventilating balding parlor place of business
  05/28/25
this is difficult imo because 9/11 really wiped clean our me...
maniacal sepia brunch cuck
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blathering queen of the night police squad
  05/28/25
Pain & Gain Mid90s The Informant!
Aromatic preventive strike
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Pain & Gain is probably the best answer ITT
drunken learning disabled cruise ship
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Im a Curator
Aromatic preventive strike
  05/29/25
Three Kings
buck-toothed locus voyeur
  05/28/25
1999
Aromatic preventive strike
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One Day (2011) Love and Other Drugs (2010)
haunting codepig box office
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Black Hawk Down
buff ceo gas station
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this
hateful bawdyhouse puppy
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Lot of nostalgia for 1993 Somalia
Plum lascivious ratface
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I remember playing netdoom in an internet cafe in Berbera ar...
contagious main people
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the belgian crime drama 'Maldoror' about the marc dutroux ca...
bat shit crazy gaming laptop nursing home
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I feel like that’s too well known to even bother discu...
Plum lascivious ratface
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Is The Departed set in the 1990s? Seemed to be based on the ...
hateful bawdyhouse puppy
  05/29/25
No. They were clearly using early 2000s era phones and using...
Hyperventilating balding parlor place of business
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tyvmft
hateful bawdyhouse puppy
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The Creek, the in-universe remake of Season 1 of Dawson's Cr...
splenetic duck-like chapel keepsake machete
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Harry Potter
Disgusting range filthpig
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The OJ Simpson miniseries that was on FX a few years ago - t...
topaz dragon jew
  06/03/25
Good one
Plum lascivious ratface
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drunken learning disabled cruise ship
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tv show but derry girls. wife insisted i watch it. i tho...
sable pit therapy
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It’s criminally underrated
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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:15 AM
Author: Plum lascivious ratface



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:30 AM
Author: Copper federal roast beef location

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2#48964673)



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:31 AM
Author: Bright embarrassed to the bone garrison telephone

Who even watches these anymore?

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:31 AM
Author: contagious main people

I still watch Film

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: spectacular green area gaping



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: Plum lascivious ratface



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:29 PM
Author: Bossy thriller new version

but yet you know nothing of it

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:33 AM
Author: contagious main people

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: Fragrant Khaki Personal Credit Line

mean girls was released in 2004 but feels older imo

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2#48964686)



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:34 AM
Author: Insecure mad-dog skullcap

True Detective season one



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:22 PM
Author: blathering queen of the night police squad



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:02 PM
Author: Plum lascivious ratface

Best answer so far

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:48 AM
Author: hateful bawdyhouse puppy



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:23 PM
Author: Exciting bisexual roommate



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:28 PM
Author: spectacular green area gaping

tp

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:39 PM
Author: blathering queen of the night police squad



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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:52 AM
Author: Plum lascivious ratface

The segways are the second biggest unresolved mystery after the lawnmower

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:34 AM
Author: buck-toothed locus voyeur



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:38 AM
Author: tantric 180 trust fund space

Alpha Dog pops into mind first

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:44 AM
Author: angry dashing menage degenerate

(Nick Cassavetes)

(JT)

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:19 PM
Author: Plum lascivious ratface

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=2#48964843)



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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:22 PM
Author: Bright embarrassed to the bone garrison telephone

How to train your dragon

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:23 PM
Author: Adulterous flatulent theatre

social network.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:44 PM
Author: thirsty newt

Wolf of Wall Street

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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:23 PM
Author: Up-to-no-good Underhanded Stag Film Bbw



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:24 PM
Author: blathering queen of the night police squad



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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:58 PM
Author: Plum lascivious ratface

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: Hyperventilating balding parlor place of business

Speed

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: Plum lascivious ratface

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2#48966424)



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:24 PM
Author: blathering queen of the night police squad

Autoadmit.com

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: Bright embarrassed to the bone garrison telephone

Nigger Feet

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: vivacious spruce meetinghouse

"period" is a gross word.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: spectacular green area gaping

The Diaper

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:39 PM
Author: blathering queen of the night police squad



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: Plum lascivious ratface

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: spectacular green area gaping



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:08 PM
Author: blathering queen of the night police squad



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:44 AM
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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:49 AM
Author: blathering queen of the night police squad



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:18 PM
Author: glassy french jap

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: Plum lascivious ratface

Thanks for asking Chat to give you answers

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:03 PM
Author: Soul-stirring Office Wagecucks

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: Plum lascivious ratface

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: Plum lascivious ratface

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: Fragrant Khaki Personal Credit Line

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: Plum lascivious ratface

Good one

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:52 AM
Author: obsidian shrine

lilo and stitch for the same reason

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:55 AM
Author: blathering queen of the night police squad



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Date: June 7th, 2025 4:43 AM
Author: light whorehouse nowag



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Date: June 14th, 2025 10:02 AM
Author: Plum lascivious ratface

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: Hyperventilating balding parlor place of business

Road Trip

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:04 AM
Author: maniacal sepia brunch cuck

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: blathering queen of the night police squad



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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:10 AM
Author: Aromatic preventive strike

Pain & Gain

Mid90s

The Informant!

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Date: May 29th, 2025 4:23 AM
Author: drunken learning disabled cruise ship

Pain & Gain is probably the best answer ITT

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Date: May 29th, 2025 7:11 AM
Author: Aromatic preventive strike

Im a Curator

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:35 AM
Author: buck-toothed locus voyeur

Three Kings

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:38 AM
Author: Aromatic preventive strike

1999

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:44 AM
Author: haunting codepig box office

One Day (2011)

Love and Other Drugs (2010)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2#48967320)



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Date: May 28th, 2025 8:48 PM
Author: buff ceo gas station

Black Hawk Down

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:13 AM
Author: hateful bawdyhouse puppy

this

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Date: May 29th, 2025 7:49 AM
Author: Plum lascivious ratface

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: contagious main people

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: bat shit crazy gaming laptop nursing home

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: Plum lascivious ratface

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: hateful bawdyhouse puppy

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: Hyperventilating balding parlor place of business

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: hateful bawdyhouse puppy

tyvmft

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:25 AM
Author: splenetic duck-like chapel keepsake machete

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: Disgusting range filthpig

Harry Potter

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Date: June 3rd, 2025 3:07 AM
Author: topaz dragon jew

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: Plum lascivious ratface

Good one

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Date: June 3rd, 2025 11:41 AM
Author: drunken learning disabled cruise ship



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Date: June 7th, 2025 4:39 AM
Author: sable pit therapy

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: Disgusting range filthpig

It’s criminally underrated

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Date: June 9th, 2025 11:12 AM
Author: sable pit therapy



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