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

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burgundy voyeur indian lodge
  05/27/25
Big Lebowski almost qualifies, released in 1998 but set in 1...
rambunctious pistol
  05/27/25
Who even watches these anymore?
ultramarine azn
  05/27/25
I still watch Film
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but yet you know nothing of it
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Sir, I attended the Werner Herzog Film Seminar, pretty sure ...
lime mischievous ape dilemma
  05/28/25
mean girls was released in 2004 but feels older imo
Black locus
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True Detective season one
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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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Alpha Dog pops into mind first
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(Nick Cassavetes) (JT)
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There are not a lot - certainly no great films. Add The F...
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  05/27/25
How to train your dragon
ultramarine azn
  05/27/25
social network.
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Wolf of Wall Street
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Mostly an 80s movie though.
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Speed
Well-lubricated Incel
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I don’t think 1994’s Speed meets one of OP&rsquo...
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Nigger Feet
ultramarine azn
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"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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The Queen (2006) The Fighter (2010) Erin Brocovich (2000) ...
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Thanks for asking Chat to give you answers
burgundy voyeur indian lodge
  05/28/25
Doesn't qualify with your parameters but Clerks is classic 9...
Frisky Appetizing Tanning Salon Dingle Berry
  05/27/25
Yes, but not a period piece. Lots of movies reflect their t...
burgundy voyeur indian lodge
  05/28/25
I think Superbad is set in the 2000s but it has a 90s aesthe...
burgundy voyeur indian lodge
  05/28/25
Same for Napoleon dynamite Technically set in 2003 but ru...
Black locus
  05/28/25
Good one
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lilo and stitch for the same reason
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Those tankard bracelets and Deb’s hair are incredibly ...
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Road Trip
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  05/28/25
this is difficult imo because 9/11 really wiped clean our me...
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bronze diverse center
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Pain & Gain Mid90s The Informant!
Coral adventurous point
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Pain & Gain is probably the best answer ITT
tan range
  05/29/25
Im a Curator
Coral adventurous point
  05/29/25
Three Kings
underhanded rigpig
  05/28/25
1999
Coral adventurous point
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One Day (2011) Love and Other Drugs (2010)
Pontificating Telephone Hissy Fit
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Black Hawk Down
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this
Sienna learning disabled hairy legs
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Lot of nostalgia for 1993 Somalia
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I remember playing netdoom in an internet cafe in Berbera ar...
lime mischievous ape dilemma
  05/29/25
the belgian crime drama 'Maldoror' about the marc dutroux ca...
razzmatazz pearl gunner
  05/28/25
I feel like that’s too well known to even bother discu...
burgundy voyeur indian lodge
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Is The Departed set in the 1990s? Seemed to be based on the ...
Sienna learning disabled hairy legs
  05/29/25
No. They were clearly using early 2000s era phones and using...
Well-lubricated Incel
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tyvmft
Sienna learning disabled hairy legs
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The Creek, the in-universe remake of Season 1 of Dawson's Cr...
Amethyst Provocative Depressive Market
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Harry Potter
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The OJ Simpson miniseries that was on FX a few years ago - t...
Shimmering duck-like space
  06/03/25
Good one
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tan range
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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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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:15 AM
Author: burgundy voyeur indian lodge



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:30 AM
Author: rambunctious pistol

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

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:31 AM
Author: ultramarine azn

Who even watches these anymore?

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:31 AM
Author: lime mischievous ape dilemma

I still watch Film

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:29 PM
Author: Offensive university volcanic crater

but yet you know nothing of it

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:33 AM
Author: lime mischievous ape dilemma

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: Black locus

mean girls was released in 2004 but feels older imo

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:34 AM
Author: Mind-boggling Sweet Tailpipe Idiot

True Detective season one



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:22 PM
Author: bronze diverse center



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:02 PM
Author: burgundy voyeur indian lodge

Best answer so far

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:48 AM
Author: Sienna learning disabled hairy legs



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:23 PM
Author: Alcoholic Queen Of The Night Senate



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:28 PM
Author: crawly station

tp

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:39 PM
Author: bronze diverse center



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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:52 AM
Author: burgundy voyeur indian lodge

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: Ruddy misanthropic ceo famous landscape painting

Alpha Dog pops into mind first

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:44 AM
Author: Chartreuse Immigrant Cuck

(Nick Cassavetes)

(JT)

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:19 PM
Author: burgundy voyeur indian lodge

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: ultramarine azn

How to train your dragon

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:23 PM
Author: Cowardly Institution Fat Ankles

social network.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:44 PM
Author: twisted library foreskin

Wolf of Wall Street

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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:23 PM
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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:24 PM
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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:58 PM
Author: burgundy voyeur indian lodge

Mostly an 80s movie though.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:45 PM
Author: Well-lubricated Incel

Speed

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: burgundy voyeur indian lodge

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: bronze diverse center

Autoadmit.com

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: ultramarine azn

Nigger Feet

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: Crystalline kink-friendly scourge upon the earth

"period" is a gross word.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: crawly station

The Diaper

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:39 PM
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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: burgundy voyeur indian lodge

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.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: crawly station



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:08 PM
Author: bronze diverse center



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:44 AM
Author: supple flushed crackhouse



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:49 AM
Author: bronze diverse center



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:18 PM
Author: 180 garrison newt

The Queen (2006)

The Fighter (2010)

Erin Brocovich (2000)

I, Tonya (2017)

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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:50 AM
Author: burgundy voyeur indian lodge

Thanks for asking Chat to give you answers

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:03 PM
Author: Frisky Appetizing Tanning Salon Dingle Berry

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

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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:52 AM
Author: burgundy voyeur indian lodge

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.

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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:54 AM
Author: burgundy voyeur indian lodge

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.

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Date: May 28th, 2025 7:05 AM
Author: Black locus

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: burgundy voyeur indian lodge

Good one

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:52 AM
Author: Orange gaping juggernaut

lilo and stitch for the same reason

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:55 AM
Author: bronze diverse center



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Date: June 7th, 2025 4:43 AM
Author: Blue dog poop



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Date: June 14th, 2025 10:02 AM
Author: burgundy voyeur indian lodge

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

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:59 AM
Author: Well-lubricated Incel

Road Trip

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:04 AM
Author: exhilarant mewling ticket booth

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

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:14 AM
Author: bronze diverse center



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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:10 AM
Author: Coral adventurous point

Pain & Gain

Mid90s

The Informant!

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Date: May 29th, 2025 4:23 AM
Author: tan range

Pain & Gain is probably the best answer ITT

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Date: May 29th, 2025 7:11 AM
Author: Coral adventurous point

Im a Curator

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:35 AM
Author: underhanded rigpig

Three Kings

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:38 AM
Author: Coral adventurous point

1999

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:44 AM
Author: Pontificating Telephone Hissy Fit

One Day (2011)

Love and Other Drugs (2010)

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Date: May 28th, 2025 8:48 PM
Author: Bossy nowag digit ratio

Black Hawk Down

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:13 AM
Author: Sienna learning disabled hairy legs

this

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Date: May 29th, 2025 7:49 AM
Author: burgundy voyeur indian lodge

Lot of nostalgia for 1993 Somalia

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Date: May 29th, 2025 8:44 AM
Author: lime mischievous ape dilemma

I remember playing netdoom in an internet cafe in Berbera around then, it was 180.

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Date: May 28th, 2025 8:54 PM
Author: razzmatazz pearl gunner

the belgian crime drama 'Maldoror' about the marc dutroux case.

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Date: May 29th, 2025 4:08 AM
Author: burgundy voyeur indian lodge

I feel like that’s too well known to even bother discussing

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:14 AM
Author: Sienna learning disabled hairy legs

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: Well-lubricated Incel

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: Sienna learning disabled hairy legs

tyvmft

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:25 AM
Author: Amethyst Provocative Depressive Market

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: cerebral hospital mental disorder

Harry Potter

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Date: June 3rd, 2025 3:07 AM
Author: Shimmering duck-like space

The OJ Simpson miniseries that was on FX a few years ago - the drama with Cuba Gooding Jr. as OJ, not the documentary one.

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Date: June 3rd, 2025 10:09 AM
Author: burgundy voyeur indian lodge

Good one

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Date: June 3rd, 2025 11:41 AM
Author: tan range



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Date: June 7th, 2025 4:39 AM
Author: Electric location

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: cerebral hospital mental disorder

It’s criminally underrated

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Date: June 9th, 2025 11:12 AM
Author: Electric location



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