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

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Fishy karate boistinker
  05/27/25
Big Lebowski almost qualifies, released in 1998 but set in 1...
Sable federal locus
  05/27/25
Who even watches these anymore?
Electric Persian Really Tough Guy
  05/27/25
I still watch Film
silver vigorous double fault
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Fishy karate boistinker
  05/27/25
but yet you know nothing of it
drab vengeful shitlib
  05/27/25
Sir, I attended the Werner Herzog Film Seminar, pretty sure ...
silver vigorous double fault
  05/28/25
mean girls was released in 2004 but feels older imo
Trip telephone immigrant
  05/27/25
True Detective season one
Canary Place Of Business
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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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chocolate crackhouse hissy fit
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Alpha Dog pops into mind first
domesticated stage patrolman
  05/27/25
(Nick Cassavetes) (JT)
racy native sex offender
  05/29/25
There are not a lot - certainly no great films. Add The F...
Fishy karate boistinker
  05/27/25
How to train your dragon
Electric Persian Really Tough Guy
  05/27/25
social network.
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Wolf of Wall Street
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Mostly an 80s movie though.
Fishy karate boistinker
  05/27/25
Speed
rusted sticky old irish cottage idea he suggested
  05/27/25
I don’t think 1994’s Speed meets one of OP&rsquo...
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  05/27/25
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Nigger Feet
Electric Persian Really Tough Guy
  05/27/25
"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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  05/27/25
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The Queen (2006) The Fighter (2010) Erin Brocovich (2000) ...
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  05/27/25
Thanks for asking Chat to give you answers
Fishy karate boistinker
  05/28/25
Doesn't qualify with your parameters but Clerks is classic 9...
Pale curious degenerate
  05/27/25
Yes, but not a period piece. Lots of movies reflect their t...
Fishy karate boistinker
  05/28/25
I think Superbad is set in the 2000s but it has a 90s aesthe...
Fishy karate boistinker
  05/28/25
Same for Napoleon dynamite Technically set in 2003 but ru...
Trip telephone immigrant
  05/28/25
Good one
Fishy karate boistinker
  05/28/25
lilo and stitch for the same reason
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  06/07/25
Those tankard bracelets and Deb’s hair are incredibly ...
Fishy karate boistinker
  06/14/25
Road Trip
rusted sticky old irish cottage idea he suggested
  05/28/25
this is difficult imo because 9/11 really wiped clean our me...
Zombie-like Cerebral School
  05/28/25
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wild amber location toilet seat
  05/28/25
Pain & Gain Mid90s The Informant!
Dull talented heaven
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Pain & Gain is probably the best answer ITT
excitant stain reading party
  05/29/25
Im a Curator
Dull talented heaven
  05/29/25
Three Kings
chocolate crackhouse hissy fit
  05/28/25
1999
Dull talented heaven
  05/28/25
One Day (2011) Love and Other Drugs (2010)
bespoke stead
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Black Hawk Down
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this
Ungodly slap-happy boltzmann gas station
  05/29/25
Lot of nostalgia for 1993 Somalia
Fishy karate boistinker
  05/29/25
I remember playing netdoom in an internet cafe in Berbera ar...
silver vigorous double fault
  05/29/25
the belgian crime drama 'Maldoror' about the marc dutroux ca...
Onyx crotch internal respiration
  05/28/25
I feel like that’s too well known to even bother discu...
Fishy karate boistinker
  05/29/25
Is The Departed set in the 1990s? Seemed to be based on the ...
Ungodly slap-happy boltzmann gas station
  05/29/25
No. They were clearly using early 2000s era phones and using...
rusted sticky old irish cottage idea he suggested
  05/29/25
tyvmft
Ungodly slap-happy boltzmann gas station
  05/29/25
The Creek, the in-universe remake of Season 1 of Dawson's Cr...
Confused glassy jap black woman
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Harry Potter
Charismatic Hominid Roommate
  06/03/25
The OJ Simpson miniseries that was on FX a few years ago - t...
twinkling menage nowag
  06/03/25
Good one
Fishy karate boistinker
  06/03/25
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excitant stain reading party
  06/03/25
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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  06/09/25


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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:15 AM
Author: Fishy karate boistinker



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:30 AM
Author: Sable federal locus

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

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:31 AM
Author: Electric Persian Really Tough Guy

Who even watches these anymore?

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:31 AM
Author: silver vigorous double fault

I still watch Film

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: Pink Bawdyhouse Roast Beef



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: Fishy karate boistinker



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:29 PM
Author: drab vengeful shitlib

but yet you know nothing of it

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:33 AM
Author: silver vigorous double fault

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: Trip telephone immigrant

mean girls was released in 2004 but feels older imo

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:34 AM
Author: Canary Place Of Business

True Detective season one



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:22 PM
Author: wild amber location toilet seat



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:02 PM
Author: Fishy karate boistinker

Best answer so far

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:48 AM
Author: Ungodly slap-happy boltzmann gas station



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:23 PM
Author: outnumbered lettuce coldplay fan



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:28 PM
Author: Pink Bawdyhouse Roast Beef

tp

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:39 PM
Author: wild amber location toilet seat



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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:52 AM
Author: Fishy karate boistinker

The segways are the second biggest unresolved mystery after the lawnmower

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:34 AM
Author: chocolate crackhouse hissy fit



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:38 AM
Author: domesticated stage patrolman

Alpha Dog pops into mind first

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:44 AM
Author: racy native sex offender

(Nick Cassavetes)

(JT)

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:19 PM
Author: Fishy karate boistinker

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: Electric Persian Really Tough Guy

How to train your dragon

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:23 PM
Author: Snowy abnormal address

social network.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:44 PM
Author: Lilac headpube chad

Wolf of Wall Street

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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:23 PM
Author: Histrionic Zippy Bbw Gaping



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:24 PM
Author: wild amber location toilet seat



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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:58 PM
Author: Fishy karate boistinker

Mostly an 80s movie though.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:45 PM
Author: rusted sticky old irish cottage idea he suggested

Speed

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: Fishy karate boistinker

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: wild amber location toilet seat

Autoadmit.com

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: Electric Persian Really Tough Guy

Nigger Feet

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: Underhanded Friendly Grandma Stag Film

"period" is a gross word.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: Pink Bawdyhouse Roast Beef

The Diaper

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:39 PM
Author: wild amber location toilet seat



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: Fishy karate boistinker

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: Pink Bawdyhouse Roast Beef



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:08 PM
Author: wild amber location toilet seat



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:44 AM
Author: Histrionic Zippy Bbw Gaping



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:49 AM
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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:18 PM
Author: Gaped trailer park scourge upon the earth

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: Fishy karate boistinker

Thanks for asking Chat to give you answers

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:03 PM
Author: Pale curious degenerate

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: Fishy karate boistinker

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: Fishy karate boistinker

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: Trip telephone immigrant

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: Fishy karate boistinker

Good one

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:52 AM
Author: Filthy Lay Pervert

lilo and stitch for the same reason

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:55 AM
Author: wild amber location toilet seat



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Date: June 7th, 2025 4:43 AM
Author: sapphire self-centered indian lodge blood rage



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Date: June 14th, 2025 10:02 AM
Author: Fishy karate boistinker

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

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:59 AM
Author: rusted sticky old irish cottage idea he suggested

Road Trip

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:04 AM
Author: Zombie-like Cerebral School

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: wild amber location toilet seat



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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:10 AM
Author: Dull talented heaven

Pain & Gain

Mid90s

The Informant!

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Date: May 29th, 2025 4:23 AM
Author: excitant stain reading party

Pain & Gain is probably the best answer ITT

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Date: May 29th, 2025 7:11 AM
Author: Dull talented heaven

Im a Curator

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:35 AM
Author: chocolate crackhouse hissy fit

Three Kings

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:38 AM
Author: Dull talented heaven

1999

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:44 AM
Author: bespoke stead

One Day (2011)

Love and Other Drugs (2010)

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Date: May 28th, 2025 8:48 PM
Author: Garnet adventurous useless brakes

Black Hawk Down

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:13 AM
Author: Ungodly slap-happy boltzmann gas station

this

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Date: May 29th, 2025 7:49 AM
Author: Fishy karate boistinker

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: silver vigorous double fault

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: Onyx crotch internal respiration

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: Fishy karate boistinker

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: Ungodly slap-happy boltzmann gas station

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: rusted sticky old irish cottage idea he suggested

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: Ungodly slap-happy boltzmann gas station

tyvmft

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:25 AM
Author: Confused glassy jap black woman

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: Charismatic Hominid Roommate

Harry Potter

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Date: June 3rd, 2025 3:07 AM
Author: twinkling menage nowag

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: Fishy karate boistinker

Good one

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Date: June 3rd, 2025 11:41 AM
Author: excitant stain reading party



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Date: June 7th, 2025 4:39 AM
Author: soul-stirring ape church

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: Charismatic Hominid Roommate

It’s criminally underrated

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Date: June 9th, 2025 11:12 AM
Author: soul-stirring ape church



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