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

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emerald philosopher-king pit
  05/27/25
Big Lebowski almost qualifies, released in 1998 but set in 1...
Chocolate hateful persian
  05/27/25
Who even watches these anymore?
bateful duck-like electric furnace
  05/27/25
I still watch Film
racy kitty
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Violent Public Bath Laser Beams
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emerald philosopher-king pit
  05/27/25
but yet you know nothing of it
Excitant theater stage
  05/27/25
Sir, I attended the Werner Herzog Film Seminar, pretty sure ...
racy kitty
  05/28/25
mean girls was released in 2004 but feels older imo
motley kitchen filthpig
  05/27/25
True Detective season one
cerebral chrome multi-billionaire hospital
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mischievous copper round eye
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Best answer so far
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misunderstood geriatric theatre codepig
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Violent Public Bath Laser Beams
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mischievous copper round eye
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The segways are the second biggest unresolved mystery after ...
emerald philosopher-king pit
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mahogany histrionic private investor
  05/28/25
Alpha Dog pops into mind first
Outnumbered federal orchestra pit brethren
  05/27/25
(Nick Cassavetes) (JT)
Translucent Meetinghouse
  05/29/25
There are not a lot - certainly no great films. Add The F...
emerald philosopher-king pit
  05/27/25
How to train your dragon
bateful duck-like electric furnace
  05/27/25
social network.
angry whorehouse liquid oxygen
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Wolf of Wall Street
180 disrespectful address lettuce
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mischievous copper round eye
  05/27/25
Mostly an 80s movie though.
emerald philosopher-king pit
  05/27/25
Speed
idiotic field
  05/27/25
I don’t think 1994’s Speed meets one of OP&rsquo...
emerald philosopher-king pit
  05/27/25
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mischievous copper round eye
  05/27/25
Nigger Feet
bateful duck-like electric furnace
  05/27/25
"period" is a gross word.
Green comical locus puppy
  05/27/25
The Diaper
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mischievous copper round eye
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I think this has to do with Klosterman’s theory about ...
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mischievous copper round eye
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mischievous copper round eye
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The Queen (2006) The Fighter (2010) Erin Brocovich (2000) ...
Odious effete toaster
  05/27/25
Thanks for asking Chat to give you answers
emerald philosopher-king pit
  05/28/25
Doesn't qualify with your parameters but Clerks is classic 9...
Wild step-uncle's house
  05/27/25
Yes, but not a period piece. Lots of movies reflect their t...
emerald philosopher-king pit
  05/28/25
I think Superbad is set in the 2000s but it has a 90s aesthe...
emerald philosopher-king pit
  05/28/25
Same for Napoleon dynamite Technically set in 2003 but ru...
motley kitchen filthpig
  05/28/25
Good one
emerald philosopher-king pit
  05/28/25
lilo and stitch for the same reason
Balding Incel
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mischievous copper round eye
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Salmon Boltzmann
  06/07/25
Those tankard bracelets and Deb’s hair are incredibly ...
emerald philosopher-king pit
  06/14/25
Road Trip
idiotic field
  05/28/25
this is difficult imo because 9/11 really wiped clean our me...
amber cracking den
  05/28/25
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mischievous copper round eye
  05/28/25
Pain & Gain Mid90s The Informant!
boyish filthy idiot
  05/28/25
Pain & Gain is probably the best answer ITT
Disturbing chartreuse alpha crackhouse
  05/29/25
Im a Curator
boyish filthy idiot
  05/29/25
Three Kings
mahogany histrionic private investor
  05/28/25
1999
boyish filthy idiot
  05/28/25
One Day (2011) Love and Other Drugs (2010)
Dashing location tank
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Black Hawk Down
Maize Skinny Woman
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this
misunderstood geriatric theatre codepig
  05/29/25
Lot of nostalgia for 1993 Somalia
emerald philosopher-king pit
  05/29/25
I remember playing netdoom in an internet cafe in Berbera ar...
racy kitty
  05/29/25
the belgian crime drama 'Maldoror' about the marc dutroux ca...
Tan concupiscible dragon karate
  05/28/25
I feel like that’s too well known to even bother discu...
emerald philosopher-king pit
  05/29/25
Is The Departed set in the 1990s? Seemed to be based on the ...
misunderstood geriatric theatre codepig
  05/29/25
No. They were clearly using early 2000s era phones and using...
idiotic field
  05/29/25
tyvmft
misunderstood geriatric theatre codepig
  05/29/25
The Creek, the in-universe remake of Season 1 of Dawson's Cr...
Thriller Clear Striped Hyena Nibblets
  05/29/25
Harry Potter
brindle point fanboi
  06/03/25
The OJ Simpson miniseries that was on FX a few years ago - t...
Naked Box Office Mexican
  06/03/25
Good one
emerald philosopher-king pit
  06/03/25
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Disturbing chartreuse alpha crackhouse
  06/03/25
tv show but derry girls. wife insisted i watch it. i tho...
stubborn wrinkle
  06/07/25
It’s criminally underrated
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  06/08/25
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stubborn wrinkle
  06/09/25


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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:15 AM
Author: emerald philosopher-king pit



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:30 AM
Author: Chocolate hateful persian

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: bateful duck-like electric furnace

Who even watches these anymore?

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:31 AM
Author: racy kitty

I still watch Film

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: Violent Public Bath Laser Beams



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: emerald philosopher-king pit



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:29 PM
Author: Excitant theater stage

but yet you know nothing of it

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:33 AM
Author: racy kitty

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: motley kitchen filthpig

mean girls was released in 2004 but feels older imo

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:34 AM
Author: cerebral chrome multi-billionaire hospital

True Detective season one



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:22 PM
Author: mischievous copper round eye



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:02 PM
Author: emerald philosopher-king pit

Best answer so far

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:48 AM
Author: misunderstood geriatric theatre codepig



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:23 PM
Author: Slate pocket flask market



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:28 PM
Author: Violent Public Bath Laser Beams

tp

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:39 PM
Author: mischievous copper round eye



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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:52 AM
Author: emerald philosopher-king pit

The segways are the second biggest unresolved mystery after the lawnmower

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:34 AM
Author: mahogany histrionic private investor



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:38 AM
Author: Outnumbered federal orchestra pit brethren

Alpha Dog pops into mind first

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:44 AM
Author: Translucent Meetinghouse

(Nick Cassavetes)

(JT)

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:19 PM
Author: emerald philosopher-king pit

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: bateful duck-like electric furnace

How to train your dragon

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:23 PM
Author: angry whorehouse liquid oxygen

social network.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:44 PM
Author: 180 disrespectful address lettuce

Wolf of Wall Street

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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:23 PM
Author: pungent ladyboy



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:24 PM
Author: mischievous copper round eye



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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:58 PM
Author: emerald philosopher-king pit

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: idiotic field

Speed

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: emerald philosopher-king pit

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: mischievous copper round eye

Autoadmit.com

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: bateful duck-like electric furnace

Nigger Feet

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: Green comical locus puppy

"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: Violent Public Bath Laser Beams

The Diaper

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:39 PM
Author: mischievous copper round eye



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: emerald philosopher-king pit

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: Violent Public Bath Laser Beams



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:08 PM
Author: mischievous copper round eye



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:44 AM
Author: pungent ladyboy



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:49 AM
Author: mischievous copper round eye



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:18 PM
Author: Odious effete toaster

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: emerald philosopher-king pit

Thanks for asking Chat to give you answers

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:03 PM
Author: Wild step-uncle's house

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: emerald philosopher-king pit

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: emerald philosopher-king pit

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: motley kitchen filthpig

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: emerald philosopher-king pit

Good one

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:52 AM
Author: Balding Incel

lilo and stitch for the same reason

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:55 AM
Author: mischievous copper round eye



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Date: June 7th, 2025 4:43 AM
Author: Salmon Boltzmann



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Date: June 14th, 2025 10:02 AM
Author: emerald philosopher-king pit

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: idiotic field

Road Trip

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:04 AM
Author: amber cracking den

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: mischievous copper round eye



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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:10 AM
Author: boyish filthy idiot

Pain & Gain

Mid90s

The Informant!

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Date: May 29th, 2025 4:23 AM
Author: Disturbing chartreuse alpha crackhouse

Pain & Gain is probably the best answer ITT

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Date: May 29th, 2025 7:11 AM
Author: boyish filthy idiot

Im a Curator

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:35 AM
Author: mahogany histrionic private investor

Three Kings

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:38 AM
Author: boyish filthy idiot

1999

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:44 AM
Author: Dashing location tank

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: Maize Skinny Woman

Black Hawk Down

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:13 AM
Author: misunderstood geriatric theatre codepig

this

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Date: May 29th, 2025 7:49 AM
Author: emerald philosopher-king pit

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: racy kitty

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: Tan concupiscible dragon karate

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: emerald philosopher-king pit

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 geriatric theatre codepig

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: idiotic field

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: misunderstood geriatric theatre codepig

tyvmft

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:25 AM
Author: Thriller Clear Striped Hyena Nibblets

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: brindle point fanboi

Harry Potter

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Date: June 3rd, 2025 3:07 AM
Author: Naked Box Office Mexican

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: emerald philosopher-king pit

Good one

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Date: June 3rd, 2025 11:41 AM
Author: Disturbing chartreuse alpha crackhouse



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Date: June 7th, 2025 4:39 AM
Author: stubborn wrinkle

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: brindle point fanboi

It’s criminally underrated

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Date: June 9th, 2025 11:12 AM
Author: stubborn wrinkle



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