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

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Supple idea he suggested
  05/27/25
Big Lebowski almost qualifies, released in 1998 but set in 1...
anal weed whacker fortuitous meteor
  05/27/25
Who even watches these anymore?
Coral idiotic point
  05/27/25
I still watch Film
chocolate parlor
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Peach Wonderful Stage
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Supple idea he suggested
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but yet you know nothing of it
Ultramarine brethren
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Sir, I attended the Werner Herzog Film Seminar, pretty sure ...
chocolate parlor
  05/28/25
mean girls was released in 2004 but feels older imo
obsidian new version den
  05/27/25
True Detective season one
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Bright balding digit ratio stag film
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Best answer so far
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Peach Wonderful Stage
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Bright balding digit ratio stag film
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The segways are the second biggest unresolved mystery after ...
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Duck-like Histrionic Garrison Preventive Strike
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Alpha Dog pops into mind first
bull headed carmine selfie
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(Nick Cassavetes) (JT)
jade idiot
  05/29/25
There are not a lot - certainly no great films. Add The F...
Supple idea he suggested
  05/27/25
How to train your dragon
Coral idiotic point
  05/27/25
social network.
Green dilemma prole
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Wolf of Wall Street
twinkling boyish philosopher-king fat ankles
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Excitant flushed giraffe karate
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Bright balding digit ratio stag film
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Mostly an 80s movie though.
Supple idea he suggested
  05/27/25
Speed
big lay boltzmann
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I don’t think 1994’s Speed meets one of OP&rsquo...
Supple idea he suggested
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Bright balding digit ratio stag film
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Nigger Feet
Coral idiotic point
  05/27/25
"period" is a gross word.
180 grizzly faggot firefighter hospital
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The Diaper
Peach Wonderful Stage
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Bright balding digit ratio stag film
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I think this has to do with Klosterman’s theory about ...
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Peach Wonderful Stage
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Bright balding digit ratio stag film
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Bright balding digit ratio stag film
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The Queen (2006) The Fighter (2010) Erin Brocovich (2000) ...
Scarlet Sneaky Criminal
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Thanks for asking Chat to give you answers
Supple idea he suggested
  05/28/25
Doesn't qualify with your parameters but Clerks is classic 9...
Geriatric Vermilion Deer Antler Mental Disorder
  05/27/25
Yes, but not a period piece. Lots of movies reflect their t...
Supple idea he suggested
  05/28/25
I think Superbad is set in the 2000s but it has a 90s aesthe...
Supple idea he suggested
  05/28/25
Same for Napoleon dynamite Technically set in 2003 but ru...
obsidian new version den
  05/28/25
Good one
Supple idea he suggested
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lilo and stitch for the same reason
slippery bat shit crazy spot pisswyrm
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Bright balding digit ratio stag film
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irradiated wine space gaming laptop
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Those tankard bracelets and Deb’s hair are incredibly ...
Supple idea he suggested
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Road Trip
big lay boltzmann
  05/28/25
this is difficult imo because 9/11 really wiped clean our me...
Glittery Filthpig
  05/28/25
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Bright balding digit ratio stag film
  05/28/25
Pain & Gain Mid90s The Informant!
Racy Federal Milk Jewess
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Pain & Gain is probably the best answer ITT
rose disrespectful rigor
  05/29/25
Im a Curator
Racy Federal Milk Jewess
  05/29/25
Three Kings
Duck-like Histrionic Garrison Preventive Strike
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1999
Racy Federal Milk Jewess
  05/28/25
One Day (2011) Love and Other Drugs (2010)
abnormal electric kitchen
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Black Hawk Down
Provocative Yellow Legal Warrant
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this
iridescent gas station
  05/29/25
Lot of nostalgia for 1993 Somalia
Supple idea he suggested
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I remember playing netdoom in an internet cafe in Berbera ar...
chocolate parlor
  05/29/25
the belgian crime drama 'Maldoror' about the marc dutroux ca...
Fuchsia Base
  05/28/25
I feel like that’s too well known to even bother discu...
Supple idea he suggested
  05/29/25
Is The Departed set in the 1990s? Seemed to be based on the ...
iridescent gas station
  05/29/25
No. They were clearly using early 2000s era phones and using...
big lay boltzmann
  05/29/25
tyvmft
iridescent gas station
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The Creek, the in-universe remake of Season 1 of Dawson's Cr...
appetizing rehab organic girlfriend
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Harry Potter
pearl underhanded jap state
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The OJ Simpson miniseries that was on FX a few years ago - t...
Ruby self-absorbed church building
  06/03/25
Good one
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rose disrespectful rigor
  06/03/25
tv show but derry girls. wife insisted i watch it. i tho...
Laughsome lodge
  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: Supple idea he suggested



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:30 AM
Author: anal weed whacker fortuitous meteor

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

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:31 AM
Author: Coral idiotic point

Who even watches these anymore?

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:31 AM
Author: chocolate parlor

I still watch Film

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: Peach Wonderful Stage



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:29 PM
Author: Ultramarine brethren

but yet you know nothing of it

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:33 AM
Author: chocolate parlor

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: obsidian new version den

mean girls was released in 2004 but feels older imo

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:34 AM
Author: garnet titillating ape abode

True Detective season one



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:22 PM
Author: Bright balding digit ratio stag film



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:02 PM
Author: Supple idea he suggested

Best answer so far

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:48 AM
Author: iridescent gas station



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:23 PM
Author: contagious coldplay fan library



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:28 PM
Author: Peach Wonderful Stage

tp

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:39 PM
Author: Bright balding digit ratio stag film



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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:52 AM
Author: Supple idea he suggested

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: bull headed carmine selfie

Alpha Dog pops into mind first

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:44 AM
Author: jade idiot

(Nick Cassavetes)

(JT)

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:19 PM
Author: Supple idea he suggested

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: Coral idiotic point

How to train your dragon

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:23 PM
Author: Green dilemma prole

social network.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:44 PM
Author: twinkling boyish philosopher-king fat ankles

Wolf of Wall Street

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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:23 PM
Author: Excitant flushed giraffe karate



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:24 PM
Author: Bright balding digit ratio stag film



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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:58 PM
Author: Supple idea he suggested

Mostly an 80s movie though.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:45 PM
Author: big lay boltzmann

Speed

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: Supple idea he suggested

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: Bright balding digit ratio stag film

Autoadmit.com

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: Coral idiotic point

Nigger Feet

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: 180 grizzly faggot firefighter hospital

"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: Peach Wonderful Stage

The Diaper

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:39 PM
Author: Bright balding digit ratio stag film



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: Supple idea he suggested

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: Peach Wonderful Stage



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:08 PM
Author: Bright balding digit ratio stag film



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:44 AM
Author: Excitant flushed giraffe karate



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:49 AM
Author: Bright balding digit ratio stag film



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:18 PM
Author: Scarlet Sneaky Criminal

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: Supple idea he suggested

Thanks for asking Chat to give you answers

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:03 PM
Author: Geriatric Vermilion Deer Antler Mental Disorder

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: Supple idea he suggested

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: Supple idea he suggested

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: obsidian new version den

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: Supple idea he suggested

Good one

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:52 AM
Author: slippery bat shit crazy spot pisswyrm

lilo and stitch for the same reason

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:55 AM
Author: Bright balding digit ratio stag film



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Date: June 7th, 2025 4:43 AM
Author: irradiated wine space gaming laptop



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Date: June 14th, 2025 10:02 AM
Author: Supple idea he suggested

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: big lay boltzmann

Road Trip

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:04 AM
Author: Glittery Filthpig

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: Bright balding digit ratio stag film



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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:10 AM
Author: Racy Federal Milk Jewess

Pain & Gain

Mid90s

The Informant!

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Date: May 29th, 2025 4:23 AM
Author: rose disrespectful rigor

Pain & Gain is probably the best answer ITT

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Date: May 29th, 2025 7:11 AM
Author: Racy Federal Milk Jewess

Im a Curator

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:35 AM
Author: Duck-like Histrionic Garrison Preventive Strike

Three Kings

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:38 AM
Author: Racy Federal Milk Jewess

1999

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:44 AM
Author: abnormal electric kitchen

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: Provocative Yellow Legal Warrant

Black Hawk Down

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:13 AM
Author: iridescent gas station

this

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Date: May 29th, 2025 7:49 AM
Author: Supple idea he suggested

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: chocolate parlor

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: Fuchsia Base

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: Supple idea he suggested

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: iridescent 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: big lay boltzmann

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: iridescent gas station

tyvmft

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:25 AM
Author: appetizing rehab organic girlfriend

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: pearl underhanded jap state

Harry Potter

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Date: June 3rd, 2025 3:07 AM
Author: Ruby self-absorbed church building

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: Supple idea he suggested

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: rose disrespectful rigor



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Date: June 7th, 2025 4:39 AM
Author: Laughsome lodge

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: pearl underhanded jap state

It’s criminally underrated

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Date: June 9th, 2025 11:12 AM
Author: Laughsome lodge



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