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

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electric walnut parlor
  05/27/25
Big Lebowski almost qualifies, released in 1998 but set in 1...
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Who even watches these anymore?
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I still watch Film
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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 ...
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mean girls was released in 2004 but feels older imo
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True Detective season one
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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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There are not a lot - certainly no great films. Add The F...
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  05/27/25
How to train your dragon
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social network.
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Wolf of Wall Street
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Mostly an 80s movie though.
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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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"period" is a gross word.
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The Diaper
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I think this has to do with Klosterman’s theory about ...
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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
electric walnut parlor
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Doesn't qualify with your parameters but Clerks is classic 9...
Wild meetinghouse
  05/27/25
Yes, but not a period piece. Lots of movies reflect their t...
electric walnut parlor
  05/28/25
I think Superbad is set in the 2000s but it has a 90s aesthe...
electric walnut parlor
  05/28/25
Same for Napoleon dynamite Technically set in 2003 but ru...
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Good one
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lilo and stitch for the same reason
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Those tankard bracelets and Deb’s hair are incredibly ...
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Road Trip
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this is difficult imo because 9/11 really wiped clean our me...
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Pain & Gain Mid90s The Informant!
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Pain & Gain is probably the best answer ITT
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Im a Curator
black passionate quadroon
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Three Kings
Sepia Cuckoldry
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1999
black passionate quadroon
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One Day (2011) Love and Other Drugs (2010)
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Black Hawk Down
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this
internet-worthy field son of senegal
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Lot of nostalgia for 1993 Somalia
electric walnut parlor
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I remember playing netdoom in an internet cafe in Berbera ar...
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the belgian crime drama 'Maldoror' about the marc dutroux ca...
talented lodge
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I feel like that’s too well known to even bother discu...
electric walnut parlor
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Is The Departed set in the 1990s? Seemed to be based on the ...
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  05/29/25
No. They were clearly using early 2000s era phones and using...
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tyvmft
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The Creek, the in-universe remake of Season 1 of Dawson's Cr...
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Harry Potter
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The OJ Simpson miniseries that was on FX a few years ago - t...
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Good one
electric walnut parlor
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Charismatic blathering laser beams point
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tv show but derry girls. wife insisted i watch it. i tho...
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  06/07/25
It’s criminally underrated
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  06/08/25
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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:15 AM
Author: electric walnut parlor



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:30 AM
Author: Swollen goal in life

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

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:31 AM
Author: mint swashbuckling abode

Who even watches these anymore?

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:31 AM
Author: anal dashing round eye

I still watch Film

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:29 PM
Author: Chocolate sanctuary

but yet you know nothing of it

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:33 AM
Author: anal dashing round eye

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: Cobalt well-lubricated bbw business firm

mean girls was released in 2004 but feels older imo

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:34 AM
Author: Territorial Corner Boltzmann

True Detective season one



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:22 PM
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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:02 PM
Author: electric walnut parlor

Best answer so far

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:48 AM
Author: internet-worthy field son of senegal



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:23 PM
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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:28 PM
Author: razzle idiot new version

tp

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:39 PM
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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:52 AM
Author: electric walnut parlor

The segways are the second biggest unresolved mystery after the lawnmower

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:34 AM
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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:38 AM
Author: Burgundy liquid oxygen

Alpha Dog pops into mind first

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:44 AM
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(Nick Cassavetes)

(JT)

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:19 PM
Author: electric walnut parlor

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: mint swashbuckling abode

How to train your dragon

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:23 PM
Author: sapphire stead skinny woman

social network.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:44 PM
Author: comical rebellious gas station

Wolf of Wall Street

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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:23 PM
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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:24 PM
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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:58 PM
Author: electric walnut parlor

Mostly an 80s movie though.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:45 PM
Author: Appetizing jewess sandwich

Speed

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: electric walnut parlor

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: Sable genital piercing jap

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: mint swashbuckling abode

Nigger Feet

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: Ebony high-end incel brunch

"period" is a gross word.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: razzle idiot new version

The Diaper

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:39 PM
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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: electric walnut parlor

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.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: razzle idiot new version



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:08 PM
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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:44 AM
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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:49 AM
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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:18 PM
Author: Supple Cordovan Ratface Property

The Queen (2006)

The Fighter (2010)

Erin Brocovich (2000)

I, Tonya (2017)

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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:50 AM
Author: electric walnut parlor

Thanks for asking Chat to give you answers

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:03 PM
Author: Wild meetinghouse

Doesn't qualify with your parameters but Clerks is classic 90s.

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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:52 AM
Author: electric walnut parlor

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.

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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:54 AM
Author: electric walnut parlor

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.

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Date: May 28th, 2025 7:05 AM
Author: Cobalt well-lubricated bbw business firm

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: electric walnut parlor

Good one

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:52 AM
Author: Excitant ocher brethren black woman

lilo and stitch for the same reason

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:55 AM
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Date: June 7th, 2025 4:43 AM
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Date: June 14th, 2025 10:02 AM
Author: electric walnut parlor

Those tankard bracelets and Deb’s hair are incredibly 90s

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:59 AM
Author: Appetizing jewess sandwich

Road Trip

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:04 AM
Author: beady-eyed piazza

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
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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:10 AM
Author: black passionate quadroon

Pain & Gain

Mid90s

The Informant!

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Date: May 29th, 2025 4:23 AM
Author: Charismatic blathering laser beams point

Pain & Gain is probably the best answer ITT

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Date: May 29th, 2025 7:11 AM
Author: black passionate quadroon

Im a Curator

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:35 AM
Author: Sepia Cuckoldry

Three Kings

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:38 AM
Author: black passionate quadroon

1999

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:44 AM
Author: wonderful deranged garrison

One Day (2011)

Love and Other Drugs (2010)

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Date: May 28th, 2025 8:48 PM
Author: Judgmental Soul-stirring Legend

Black Hawk Down

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:13 AM
Author: internet-worthy field son of senegal

this

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Date: May 29th, 2025 7:49 AM
Author: electric walnut parlor

Lot of nostalgia for 1993 Somalia

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Date: May 29th, 2025 8:44 AM
Author: anal dashing round eye

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: talented lodge

the belgian crime drama 'Maldoror' about the marc dutroux case.

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Date: May 29th, 2025 4:08 AM
Author: electric walnut parlor

I feel like that’s too well known to even bother discussing

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:14 AM
Author: internet-worthy field son of senegal

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: Appetizing jewess sandwich

No. They were clearly using early 2000s era phones and using the number pad for texting. Also Alec Baldwins character mentions the Patriot Act

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Date: May 29th, 2025 6:44 AM
Author: internet-worthy field son of senegal

tyvmft

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:25 AM
Author: Smoky hairy legs area

The Creek, the in-universe remake of Season 1 of Dawson's Creek.

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Date: June 3rd, 2025 1:22 AM
Author: Stirring fighting gunner

Harry Potter

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Date: June 3rd, 2025 3:07 AM
Author: splenetic umber therapy foreskin

The OJ Simpson miniseries that was on FX a few years ago - the drama with Cuba Gooding Jr. as OJ, not the documentary one.

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Date: June 3rd, 2025 10:09 AM
Author: electric walnut parlor

Good one

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Date: June 3rd, 2025 11:41 AM
Author: Charismatic blathering laser beams point



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Date: June 7th, 2025 4:39 AM
Author: navy church building

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: Stirring fighting gunner

It’s criminally underrated

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Date: June 9th, 2025 11:12 AM
Author: navy church building



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