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

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Coral indian lodge
  05/27/25
Big Lebowski almost qualifies, released in 1998 but set in 1...
excitant hominid
  05/27/25
Who even watches these anymore?
rusted degenerate hall
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I still watch Film
doobsian stock car
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narrow-minded swashbuckling lodge
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Coral indian lodge
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but yet you know nothing of it
fighting state
  05/27/25
Sir, I attended the Werner Herzog Film Seminar, pretty sure ...
doobsian stock car
  05/28/25
mean girls was released in 2004 but feels older imo
azure mind-boggling stain
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True Detective season one
Insecure Dashing Goal In Life Community Account
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flushed razzle-dazzle volcanic crater
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Best answer so far
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narrow-minded swashbuckling lodge
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flushed razzle-dazzle volcanic crater
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The segways are the second biggest unresolved mystery after ...
Coral indian lodge
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At-the-ready Big Queen Of The Night
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Alpha Dog pops into mind first
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(Nick Cassavetes) (JT)
titillating range incel
  05/29/25
There are not a lot - certainly no great films. Add The F...
Coral indian lodge
  05/27/25
How to train your dragon
rusted degenerate hall
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social network.
Adventurous Bawdyhouse Pozpig
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Wolf of Wall Street
galvanic dragon field
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spruce digit ratio death wish
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flushed razzle-dazzle volcanic crater
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Mostly an 80s movie though.
Coral indian lodge
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Speed
plum doctorate elastic band
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I don’t think 1994’s Speed meets one of OP&rsquo...
Coral indian lodge
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Nigger Feet
rusted degenerate hall
  05/27/25
"period" is a gross word.
Gay Coiffed Mediation Stage
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The Diaper
narrow-minded swashbuckling lodge
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flushed razzle-dazzle volcanic crater
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I think this has to do with Klosterman’s theory about ...
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narrow-minded swashbuckling lodge
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spruce digit ratio death wish
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The Queen (2006) The Fighter (2010) Erin Brocovich (2000) ...
Diverse therapy trailer park
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Thanks for asking Chat to give you answers
Coral indian lodge
  05/28/25
Doesn't qualify with your parameters but Clerks is classic 9...
fragrant irate ticket booth philosopher-king
  05/27/25
Yes, but not a period piece. Lots of movies reflect their t...
Coral indian lodge
  05/28/25
I think Superbad is set in the 2000s but it has a 90s aesthe...
Coral indian lodge
  05/28/25
Same for Napoleon dynamite Technically set in 2003 but ru...
azure mind-boggling stain
  05/28/25
Good one
Coral indian lodge
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lilo and stitch for the same reason
indigo clown international law enforcement agency
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flushed razzle-dazzle volcanic crater
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poppy slippery liquid oxygen parlour
  06/07/25
Those tankard bracelets and Deb’s hair are incredibly ...
Coral indian lodge
  06/14/25
Road Trip
plum doctorate elastic band
  05/28/25
this is difficult imo because 9/11 really wiped clean our me...
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flushed razzle-dazzle volcanic crater
  05/28/25
Pain & Gain Mid90s The Informant!
Bespoke garnet locale generalized bond
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Pain & Gain is probably the best answer ITT
hairraiser factory reset button turdskin
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Im a Curator
Bespoke garnet locale generalized bond
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Three Kings
At-the-ready Big Queen Of The Night
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1999
Bespoke garnet locale generalized bond
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One Day (2011) Love and Other Drugs (2010)
nighttime forum mad cow disease
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Black Hawk Down
Black Shaky Garrison Scourge Upon The Earth
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this
Blathering Vigorous Crotch
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Lot of nostalgia for 1993 Somalia
Coral indian lodge
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I remember playing netdoom in an internet cafe in Berbera ar...
doobsian stock car
  05/29/25
the belgian crime drama 'Maldoror' about the marc dutroux ca...
Contagious jap principal's office
  05/28/25
I feel like that’s too well known to even bother discu...
Coral indian lodge
  05/29/25
Is The Departed set in the 1990s? Seemed to be based on the ...
Blathering Vigorous Crotch
  05/29/25
No. They were clearly using early 2000s era phones and using...
plum doctorate elastic band
  05/29/25
tyvmft
Blathering Vigorous Crotch
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The Creek, the in-universe remake of Season 1 of Dawson's Cr...
disturbing senate
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Harry Potter
White painfully honest organic girlfriend
  06/03/25
The OJ Simpson miniseries that was on FX a few years ago - t...
Thriller mad-dog skullcap
  06/03/25
Good one
Coral indian lodge
  06/03/25
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hairraiser factory reset button turdskin
  06/03/25
tv show but derry girls. wife insisted i watch it. i tho...
Nudist Menage Internal Respiration
  06/07/25
It’s criminally underrated
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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:15 AM
Author: Coral indian lodge



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:30 AM
Author: excitant hominid

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

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:31 AM
Author: rusted degenerate hall

Who even watches these anymore?

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

I still watch Film

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: narrow-minded swashbuckling lodge



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: Coral indian lodge



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:29 PM
Author: fighting state

but yet you know nothing of it

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:33 AM
Author: doobsian stock car

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: azure mind-boggling stain

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 Dashing Goal In Life Community Account

True Detective season one



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:22 PM
Author: flushed razzle-dazzle volcanic crater



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:02 PM
Author: Coral indian lodge

Best answer so far

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:48 AM
Author: Blathering Vigorous Crotch



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:23 PM
Author: Maroon Arousing Legend Toilet Seat



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:28 PM
Author: narrow-minded swashbuckling lodge

tp

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:39 PM
Author: flushed razzle-dazzle volcanic crater



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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:52 AM
Author: Coral indian lodge

The segways are the second biggest unresolved mystery after the lawnmower

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:34 AM
Author: At-the-ready Big Queen Of The Night



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:38 AM
Author: iridescent comical locus puppy

Alpha Dog pops into mind first

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:44 AM
Author: titillating range incel

(Nick Cassavetes)

(JT)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2#48969853)



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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:19 PM
Author: Coral indian lodge

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: rusted degenerate hall

How to train your dragon

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:23 PM
Author: Adventurous Bawdyhouse Pozpig

social network.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:44 PM
Author: galvanic dragon field

Wolf of Wall Street

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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:23 PM
Author: spruce digit ratio death wish



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:24 PM
Author: flushed razzle-dazzle volcanic crater



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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:58 PM
Author: Coral indian lodge

Mostly an 80s movie though.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:45 PM
Author: plum doctorate elastic band

Speed

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: Coral indian lodge

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: flushed razzle-dazzle volcanic crater

Autoadmit.com

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: rusted degenerate hall

Nigger Feet

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: Gay Coiffed Mediation Stage

"period" is a gross word.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: narrow-minded swashbuckling lodge

The Diaper

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:39 PM
Author: flushed razzle-dazzle volcanic crater



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: Coral indian lodge

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: narrow-minded swashbuckling lodge



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:08 PM
Author: flushed razzle-dazzle volcanic crater



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:44 AM
Author: spruce digit ratio death wish



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:49 AM
Author: flushed razzle-dazzle volcanic crater



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:18 PM
Author: Diverse therapy trailer park

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: Coral indian lodge

Thanks for asking Chat to give you answers

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:03 PM
Author: fragrant irate ticket booth philosopher-king

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: Coral indian lodge

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: Coral indian lodge

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: azure mind-boggling stain

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: Coral indian lodge

Good one

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:52 AM
Author: indigo clown international law enforcement agency

lilo and stitch for the same reason

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:55 AM
Author: flushed razzle-dazzle volcanic crater



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Date: June 7th, 2025 4:43 AM
Author: poppy slippery liquid oxygen parlour



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Date: June 14th, 2025 10:02 AM
Author: Coral indian lodge

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: plum doctorate elastic band

Road Trip

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:04 AM
Author: Indecent twinkling personal credit line

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: flushed razzle-dazzle volcanic crater



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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:10 AM
Author: Bespoke garnet locale generalized bond

Pain & Gain

Mid90s

The Informant!

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Date: May 29th, 2025 4:23 AM
Author: hairraiser factory reset button turdskin

Pain & Gain is probably the best answer ITT

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Date: May 29th, 2025 7:11 AM
Author: Bespoke garnet locale generalized bond

Im a Curator

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:35 AM
Author: At-the-ready Big Queen Of The Night

Three Kings

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:38 AM
Author: Bespoke garnet locale generalized bond

1999

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:44 AM
Author: nighttime forum mad cow disease

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: Black Shaky Garrison Scourge Upon The Earth

Black Hawk Down

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:13 AM
Author: Blathering Vigorous Crotch

this

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Date: May 29th, 2025 7:49 AM
Author: Coral indian lodge

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: doobsian stock car

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: Contagious jap principal's office

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: Coral indian lodge

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: Blathering Vigorous Crotch

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: plum doctorate elastic band

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: Blathering Vigorous Crotch

tyvmft

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:25 AM
Author: disturbing senate

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: White painfully honest organic girlfriend

Harry Potter

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Date: June 3rd, 2025 3:07 AM
Author: Thriller mad-dog skullcap

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: Coral indian lodge

Good one

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Date: June 3rd, 2025 11:41 AM
Author: hairraiser factory reset button turdskin



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Date: June 7th, 2025 4:39 AM
Author: Nudist Menage Internal Respiration

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: White painfully honest organic girlfriend

It’s criminally underrated

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Date: June 9th, 2025 11:12 AM
Author: Nudist Menage Internal Respiration



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