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

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Doesn't qualify with your parameters but Clerks is classic 9...
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Harry Potter
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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:30 AM
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Big Lebowski almost qualifies, released in 1998 but set in 1991.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:31 AM
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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:31 AM
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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:33 AM
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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
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mean girls was released in 2004 but feels older imo

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:34 AM
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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:38 AM
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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:44 AM
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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:19 PM
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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
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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:23 PM
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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:44 PM
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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:58 PM
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Mostly an 80s movie though.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:45 PM
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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
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I don’t think 1994’s Speed meets one of OP’s criteria.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:24 PM
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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
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"period" is a gross word.

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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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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 10:18 PM
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The Queen (2006)

The Fighter (2010)

Erin Brocovich (2000)

I, Tonya (2017)

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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:50 AM
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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:03 PM
Author: Razzmatazz coffee pot

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

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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:52 AM
Author: rose bbw hall

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
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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
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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
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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:52 AM
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lilo and stitch for the same reason

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Date: June 14th, 2025 10:02 AM
Author: rose bbw hall

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

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:59 AM
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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:04 AM
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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 10:10 AM
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Pain & Gain

Mid90s

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Date: May 29th, 2025 4:23 AM
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Date: May 29th, 2025 7:11 AM
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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:35 AM
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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:38 AM
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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:44 AM
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Date: May 28th, 2025 8:48 PM
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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:13 AM
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Date: May 29th, 2025 7:49 AM
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Date: May 29th, 2025 8:44 AM
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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: heady ungodly range volcanic crater

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

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Date: May 29th, 2025 4:08 AM
Author: rose bbw hall

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

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:14 AM
Author: Nofapping Windowlicker

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: Pale institution

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 5:25 AM
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Date: June 3rd, 2025 1:22 AM
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Harry Potter

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Date: June 3rd, 2025 3:07 AM
Author: beady-eyed heaven

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
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Date: June 3rd, 2025 11:41 AM
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Date: June 7th, 2025 4:39 AM
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tv show but derry girls.

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Date: June 8th, 2025 8:34 PM
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It’s criminally underrated

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