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

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flesh up-to-no-good meetinghouse
  05/27/25
Big Lebowski almost qualifies, released in 1998 but set in 1...
dashing gaming laptop hominid
  05/27/25
Who even watches these anymore?
Soul-stirring University Party Of The First Part
  05/27/25
I still watch Film
Sick Orange Double Fault Crotch
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Curious sweet tailpipe kitchen
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flesh up-to-no-good meetinghouse
  05/27/25
but yet you know nothing of it
Zombie-like volcanic crater
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Sir, I attended the Werner Herzog Film Seminar, pretty sure ...
Sick Orange Double Fault Crotch
  05/28/25
mean girls was released in 2004 but feels older imo
Judgmental field
  05/27/25
True Detective season one
Yapping indian lodge turdskin
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Burgundy corner sandwich
  05/27/25
Best answer so far
flesh up-to-no-good meetinghouse
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Misunderstood main people resort
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Curious sweet tailpipe kitchen
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Burgundy corner sandwich
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The segways are the second biggest unresolved mystery after ...
flesh up-to-no-good meetinghouse
  05/28/25
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Mind-boggling iridescent institution
  05/28/25
Alpha Dog pops into mind first
sepia racy market fanboi
  05/27/25
(Nick Cassavetes) (JT)
sable range
  05/29/25
There are not a lot - certainly no great films. Add The F...
flesh up-to-no-good meetinghouse
  05/27/25
How to train your dragon
Soul-stirring University Party Of The First Part
  05/27/25
social network.
cerebral karate
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Wolf of Wall Street
electric address
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Aggressive onyx den
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Burgundy corner sandwich
  05/27/25
Mostly an 80s movie though.
flesh up-to-no-good meetinghouse
  05/27/25
Speed
Carmine razzle organic girlfriend
  05/27/25
I don’t think 1994’s Speed meets one of OP&rsquo...
flesh up-to-no-good meetinghouse
  05/27/25
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Burgundy corner sandwich
  05/27/25
Nigger Feet
Soul-stirring University Party Of The First Part
  05/27/25
"period" is a gross word.
Overrated home national security agency
  05/27/25
The Diaper
Curious sweet tailpipe kitchen
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Burgundy corner sandwich
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I think this has to do with Klosterman’s theory about ...
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Curious sweet tailpipe kitchen
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Burgundy corner sandwich
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Aggressive onyx den
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Burgundy corner sandwich
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The Queen (2006) The Fighter (2010) Erin Brocovich (2000) ...
olive mother
  05/27/25
Thanks for asking Chat to give you answers
flesh up-to-no-good meetinghouse
  05/28/25
Doesn't qualify with your parameters but Clerks is classic 9...
Laughsome Locale
  05/27/25
Yes, but not a period piece. Lots of movies reflect their t...
flesh up-to-no-good meetinghouse
  05/28/25
I think Superbad is set in the 2000s but it has a 90s aesthe...
flesh up-to-no-good meetinghouse
  05/28/25
Same for Napoleon dynamite Technically set in 2003 but ru...
Judgmental field
  05/28/25
Good one
flesh up-to-no-good meetinghouse
  05/28/25
lilo and stitch for the same reason
claret vivacious preventive strike
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Burgundy corner sandwich
  05/28/25
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1L's Ambition
  06/07/25
Road Trip
Carmine razzle organic girlfriend
  05/28/25
this is difficult imo because 9/11 really wiped clean our me...
Gaped Yellow Prole Tanning Salon
  05/28/25
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Burgundy corner sandwich
  05/28/25
Pain & Gain Mid90s The Informant!
Contagious keepsake machete
  05/28/25
Pain & Gain is probably the best answer ITT
Adulterous Trailer Park Coffee Pot
  05/29/25
Im a Curator
Contagious keepsake machete
  05/29/25
Three Kings
Mind-boggling iridescent institution
  05/28/25
1999
Contagious keepsake machete
  05/28/25
One Day (2011) Love and Other Drugs (2010)
Magenta lay
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Black Hawk Down
mahogany messiness
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this
Misunderstood main people resort
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Lot of nostalgia for 1993 Somalia
flesh up-to-no-good meetinghouse
  05/29/25
I remember playing netdoom in an internet cafe in Berbera ar...
Sick Orange Double Fault Crotch
  05/29/25
the belgian crime drama 'Maldoror' about the marc dutroux ca...
galvanic confused hunting ground
  05/28/25
I feel like that’s too well known to even bother discu...
flesh up-to-no-good meetinghouse
  05/29/25
Is The Departed set in the 1990s? Seemed to be based on the ...
Misunderstood main people resort
  05/29/25
No. They were clearly using early 2000s era phones and using...
Carmine razzle organic girlfriend
  05/29/25
tyvmft
Misunderstood main people resort
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The Creek, the in-universe remake of Season 1 of Dawson's Cr...
bearded outnumbered shrine
  05/29/25
Harry Potter
Pumonymous
  06/03/25
The OJ Simpson miniseries that was on FX a few years ago - t...
Todd Driskill
  06/03/25
Good one
Pierbattista Pizzaballa
  06/03/25
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Trump Tariffs Can Do No Wrong
  06/03/25
tv show but derry girls. wife insisted i watch it. i tho...
Brother Peter Dimond
  06/07/25


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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:15 AM
Author: flesh up-to-no-good meetinghouse



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:30 AM
Author: dashing gaming laptop hominid

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: Soul-stirring University Party Of The First Part

Who even watches these anymore?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2:#48964678)



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:31 AM
Author: Sick Orange Double Fault Crotch

I still watch Film

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: Curious sweet tailpipe kitchen



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: flesh up-to-no-good meetinghouse



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:29 PM
Author: Zombie-like volcanic crater

but yet you know nothing of it

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:33 AM
Author: Sick Orange Double Fault Crotch

Sir, I attended the Werner Herzog Film Seminar, pretty sure I know about Film.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2:#48967267)



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:32 AM
Author: Judgmental field

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: Yapping indian lodge turdskin

True Detective season one



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:22 PM
Author: Burgundy corner sandwich



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:02 PM
Author: flesh up-to-no-good meetinghouse

Best answer so far

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2:#48966429)



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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:48 AM
Author: Misunderstood main people resort



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:23 PM
Author: wonderful stead factory reset button



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:28 PM
Author: Curious sweet tailpipe kitchen

tp

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:39 PM
Author: Burgundy corner sandwich



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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:52 AM
Author: flesh up-to-no-good meetinghouse

The segways are the second biggest unresolved mystery after the lawnmower

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2:#48966872)



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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:34 AM
Author: Mind-boggling iridescent institution



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:38 AM
Author: sepia racy market fanboi

Alpha Dog pops into mind first

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

(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: flesh up-to-no-good meetinghouse

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: Soul-stirring University Party Of The First Part

How to train your dragon

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:23 PM
Author: cerebral karate

social network.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:44 PM
Author: electric address

Wolf of Wall Street

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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:23 PM
Author: Aggressive onyx den



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:24 PM
Author: Burgundy corner sandwich



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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:58 PM
Author: flesh up-to-no-good meetinghouse

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: Carmine razzle organic girlfriend

Speed

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: flesh up-to-no-good meetinghouse

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: Burgundy corner sandwich

Autoadmit.com

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: Soul-stirring University Party Of The First Part

Nigger Feet

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: Overrated home national security agency

"period" is a gross word.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2:#48966412)



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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: Curious sweet tailpipe kitchen

The Diaper

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:39 PM
Author: Burgundy corner sandwich



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: flesh up-to-no-good meetinghouse

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: Curious sweet tailpipe kitchen



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:08 PM
Author: Burgundy corner sandwich



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:44 AM
Author: Aggressive onyx den



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:49 AM
Author: Burgundy corner sandwich



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:18 PM
Author: olive mother

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: flesh up-to-no-good meetinghouse

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: Laughsome Locale

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: flesh up-to-no-good meetinghouse

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: flesh up-to-no-good meetinghouse

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: Judgmental field

Same for Napoleon dynamite

Technically set in 2003 but rural Idaho was still in 1990

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2:#48966880)



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:43 AM
Author: flesh up-to-no-good meetinghouse

Good one

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2:#48967107)



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:52 AM
Author: claret vivacious preventive strike

lilo and stitch for the same reason

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:55 AM
Author: Burgundy corner sandwich



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Date: June 7th, 2025 4:43 AM
Author: 1L's Ambition



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:59 AM
Author: Carmine razzle organic girlfriend

Road Trip

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2:#48967148)



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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:04 AM
Author: Gaped Yellow Prole Tanning Salon

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: Burgundy corner sandwich



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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:10 AM
Author: Contagious keepsake machete

Pain & Gain

Mid90s

The Informant!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2:#48967189)



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Date: May 29th, 2025 4:23 AM
Author: Adulterous Trailer Park Coffee Pot

Pain & Gain is probably the best answer ITT

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2:#48969811)



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Date: May 29th, 2025 7:11 AM
Author: Contagious keepsake machete

Im a Curator

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:35 AM
Author: Mind-boggling iridescent institution

Three Kings

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:38 AM
Author: Contagious keepsake machete

1999

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:44 AM
Author: Magenta lay

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: mahogany messiness

Black Hawk Down

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:13 AM
Author: Misunderstood main people resort

this

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Date: May 29th, 2025 7:49 AM
Author: flesh up-to-no-good meetinghouse

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: Sick Orange Double Fault Crotch

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: galvanic confused hunting ground

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: flesh up-to-no-good meetinghouse

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: Misunderstood main people resort

Is The Departed set in the 1990s? Seemed to be based on the tech used

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2:#48969841)



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Date: May 29th, 2025 6:44 AM
Author: Carmine razzle organic girlfriend

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: Misunderstood main people resort

tyvmft

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:25 AM
Author: bearded outnumbered shrine

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: Pumonymous

Harry Potter

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Date: June 3rd, 2025 3:07 AM
Author: Todd Driskill

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: Pierbattista Pizzaballa

Good one

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2:#48983011)



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Date: June 3rd, 2025 11:41 AM
Author: Trump Tariffs Can Do No Wrong (TDNW)



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Date: June 7th, 2025 4:39 AM
Author: Brother Peter Dimond

tv show but derry girls.

wife insisted i watch it. i thought it would suck but it’s 180

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2:#48994100)