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

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histrionic shaky idiot garrison
  05/27/25
Big Lebowski almost qualifies, released in 1998 but set in 1...
translucent lettuce
  05/27/25
Who even watches these anymore?
Bat shit crazy sandwich
  05/27/25
I still watch Film
fragrant mediation shrine
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vivacious heaven
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histrionic shaky idiot garrison
  05/27/25
but yet you know nothing of it
adulterous place of business
  05/27/25
Sir, I attended the Werner Herzog Film Seminar, pretty sure ...
fragrant mediation shrine
  05/28/25
mean girls was released in 2004 but feels older imo
Ebony offensive location ratface
  05/27/25
True Detective season one
Embarrassed To The Bone Motley Son Of Senegal Scourge Upon The Earth
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Tantric obsidian selfie
  05/27/25
Best answer so far
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massive mauve philosopher-king
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Ultramarine spectacular national
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tp
vivacious heaven
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Tantric obsidian selfie
  05/27/25
The segways are the second biggest unresolved mystery after ...
histrionic shaky idiot garrison
  05/28/25
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Comical sadistic old irish cottage
  05/28/25
Alpha Dog pops into mind first
talented alpha
  05/27/25
(Nick Cassavetes) (JT)
concupiscible locale boltzmann
  05/29/25
There are not a lot - certainly no great films. Add The F...
histrionic shaky idiot garrison
  05/27/25
How to train your dragon
Bat shit crazy sandwich
  05/27/25
social network.
ivory fantasy-prone knife
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Wolf of Wall Street
exciting community account
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harsh mustard twinkling uncleanness nowag
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Tantric obsidian selfie
  05/27/25
Mostly an 80s movie though.
histrionic shaky idiot garrison
  05/27/25
Speed
Underhanded Faggotry
  05/27/25
I don’t think 1994’s Speed meets one of OP&rsquo...
histrionic shaky idiot garrison
  05/27/25
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Tantric obsidian selfie
  05/27/25
Nigger Feet
Bat shit crazy sandwich
  05/27/25
"period" is a gross word.
Bistre heady newt
  05/27/25
The Diaper
vivacious heaven
  05/27/25
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Tantric obsidian selfie
  05/27/25
I think this has to do with Klosterman’s theory about ...
histrionic shaky idiot garrison
  05/27/25
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vivacious heaven
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Tantric obsidian selfie
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harsh mustard twinkling uncleanness nowag
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Tantric obsidian selfie
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The Queen (2006) The Fighter (2010) Erin Brocovich (2000) ...
Poppy curious toilet seat church
  05/27/25
Thanks for asking Chat to give you answers
histrionic shaky idiot garrison
  05/28/25
Doesn't qualify with your parameters but Clerks is classic 9...
domesticated theater
  05/27/25
Yes, but not a period piece. Lots of movies reflect their t...
histrionic shaky idiot garrison
  05/28/25
I think Superbad is set in the 2000s but it has a 90s aesthe...
histrionic shaky idiot garrison
  05/28/25
Same for Napoleon dynamite Technically set in 2003 but ru...
Ebony offensive location ratface
  05/28/25
Good one
histrionic shaky idiot garrison
  05/28/25
lilo and stitch for the same reason
Green Cocky Rigpig Stag Film
  05/28/25
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Tantric obsidian selfie
  05/28/25
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purple excitant theatre hominid
  06/07/25
Those tankard bracelets and Deb’s hair are incredibly ...
histrionic shaky idiot garrison
  06/14/25
Road Trip
Underhanded Faggotry
  05/28/25
this is difficult imo because 9/11 really wiped clean our me...
know-it-all walnut dragon
  05/28/25
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Tantric obsidian selfie
  05/28/25
Pain & Gain Mid90s The Informant!
Rusted piazza trust fund
  05/28/25
Pain & Gain is probably the best answer ITT
costumed site round eye
  05/29/25
Im a Curator
Rusted piazza trust fund
  05/29/25
Three Kings
Comical sadistic old irish cottage
  05/28/25
1999
Rusted piazza trust fund
  05/28/25
One Day (2011) Love and Other Drugs (2010)
indecent locus
  05/28/25
Black Hawk Down
Khaki Effete Quadroon Fat Ankles
  05/28/25
this
massive mauve philosopher-king
  05/29/25
Lot of nostalgia for 1993 Somalia
histrionic shaky idiot garrison
  05/29/25
I remember playing netdoom in an internet cafe in Berbera ar...
fragrant mediation shrine
  05/29/25
the belgian crime drama 'Maldoror' about the marc dutroux ca...
Puce cuck
  05/28/25
I feel like that’s too well known to even bother discu...
histrionic shaky idiot garrison
  05/29/25
Is The Departed set in the 1990s? Seemed to be based on the ...
massive mauve philosopher-king
  05/29/25
No. They were clearly using early 2000s era phones and using...
Underhanded Faggotry
  05/29/25
tyvmft
massive mauve philosopher-king
  05/29/25
The Creek, the in-universe remake of Season 1 of Dawson's Cr...
frisky claret degenerate university
  05/29/25
Harry Potter
Fighting Crawly Hall Affirmative Action
  06/03/25
The OJ Simpson miniseries that was on FX a few years ago - t...
Beta business firm multi-billionaire
  06/03/25
Good one
histrionic shaky idiot garrison
  06/03/25
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costumed site round eye
  06/03/25
tv show but derry girls. wife insisted i watch it. i tho...
Aggressive aqua base mexican
  06/07/25
It’s criminally underrated
Fighting Crawly Hall Affirmative Action
  06/08/25
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  06/09/25


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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:15 AM
Author: histrionic shaky idiot garrison



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:30 AM
Author: translucent lettuce

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: Bat shit crazy sandwich

Who even watches these anymore?

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:31 AM
Author: fragrant mediation shrine

I still watch Film

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



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: histrionic shaky idiot garrison



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:29 PM
Author: adulterous place of business

but yet you know nothing of it

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:33 AM
Author: fragrant mediation shrine

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: Ebony offensive location ratface

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: Embarrassed To The Bone Motley Son Of Senegal Scourge Upon The Earth

True Detective season one



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:22 PM
Author: Tantric obsidian selfie



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:02 PM
Author: histrionic shaky idiot garrison

Best answer so far

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:48 AM
Author: massive mauve philosopher-king



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:23 PM
Author: Ultramarine spectacular national



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:28 PM
Author: vivacious heaven

tp

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:39 PM
Author: Tantric obsidian selfie



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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:52 AM
Author: histrionic shaky idiot garrison

The segways are the second biggest unresolved mystery after the lawnmower

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:34 AM
Author: Comical sadistic old irish cottage



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:38 AM
Author: talented alpha

Alpha Dog pops into mind first

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:44 AM
Author: concupiscible locale boltzmann

(Nick Cassavetes)

(JT)

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:19 PM
Author: histrionic shaky idiot garrison

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: Bat shit crazy sandwich

How to train your dragon

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:23 PM
Author: ivory fantasy-prone knife

social network.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:44 PM
Author: exciting community account

Wolf of Wall Street

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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:23 PM
Author: harsh mustard twinkling uncleanness nowag



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:24 PM
Author: Tantric obsidian selfie



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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:58 PM
Author: histrionic shaky idiot garrison

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: Underhanded Faggotry

Speed

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: histrionic shaky idiot garrison

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: Tantric obsidian selfie

Autoadmit.com

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: Bat shit crazy sandwich

Nigger Feet

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: Bistre heady newt

"period" is a gross word.

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

The Diaper

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:39 PM
Author: Tantric obsidian selfie



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: histrionic shaky idiot garrison

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: vivacious heaven



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:08 PM
Author: Tantric obsidian selfie



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:44 AM
Author: harsh mustard twinkling uncleanness nowag



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:49 AM
Author: Tantric obsidian selfie



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:18 PM
Author: Poppy curious toilet seat church

The Queen (2006)

The Fighter (2010)

Erin Brocovich (2000)

I, Tonya (2017)

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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:50 AM
Author: histrionic shaky idiot garrison

Thanks for asking Chat to give you answers

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2:#48966869)



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:03 PM
Author: domesticated theater

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

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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:52 AM
Author: histrionic shaky idiot garrison

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: histrionic shaky idiot garrison

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: Ebony offensive location ratface

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: histrionic shaky idiot garrison

Good one

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:52 AM
Author: Green Cocky Rigpig Stag Film

lilo and stitch for the same reason

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:55 AM
Author: Tantric obsidian selfie



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Date: June 7th, 2025 4:43 AM
Author: purple excitant theatre hominid



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Date: June 14th, 2025 10:02 AM
Author: histrionic shaky idiot garrison

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: Underhanded Faggotry

Road Trip

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:04 AM
Author: know-it-all walnut dragon

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: Tantric obsidian selfie



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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:10 AM
Author: Rusted piazza trust fund

Pain & Gain

Mid90s

The Informant!

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Date: May 29th, 2025 4:23 AM
Author: costumed site round eye

Pain & Gain is probably the best answer ITT

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Date: May 29th, 2025 7:11 AM
Author: Rusted piazza trust fund

Im a Curator

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:35 AM
Author: Comical sadistic old irish cottage

Three Kings

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:38 AM
Author: Rusted piazza trust fund

1999

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:44 AM
Author: indecent locus

One Day (2011)

Love and Other Drugs (2010)

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Date: May 28th, 2025 8:48 PM
Author: Khaki Effete Quadroon Fat Ankles

Black Hawk Down

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:13 AM
Author: massive mauve philosopher-king

this

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Date: May 29th, 2025 7:49 AM
Author: histrionic shaky idiot garrison

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: fragrant mediation shrine

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: Puce cuck

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: histrionic shaky idiot garrison

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: massive mauve philosopher-king

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: Underhanded Faggotry

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: massive mauve philosopher-king

tyvmft

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:25 AM
Author: frisky claret degenerate university

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: Fighting Crawly Hall Affirmative Action

Harry Potter

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Date: June 3rd, 2025 3:07 AM
Author: Beta business firm multi-billionaire

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: histrionic shaky idiot garrison

Good one

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Date: June 3rd, 2025 11:41 AM
Author: costumed site round eye



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Date: June 7th, 2025 4:39 AM
Author: Aggressive aqua base mexican

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: Fighting Crawly Hall Affirmative Action

It’s criminally underrated

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Date: June 9th, 2025 11:12 AM
Author: Aggressive aqua base mexican



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