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

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Swashbuckling pea-brained den main people
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Big Lebowski almost qualifies, released in 1998 but set in 1...
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Who even watches these anymore?
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I still watch Film
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Swashbuckling pea-brained den main people
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but yet you know nothing of it
blathering library
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Sir, I attended the Werner Herzog Film Seminar, pretty sure ...
Turquoise Plaza Volcanic Crater
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mean girls was released in 2004 but feels older imo
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True Detective season one
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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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How to train your dragon
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social network.
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Wolf of Wall Street
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Mostly an 80s movie though.
Swashbuckling pea-brained den main people
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Speed
Brilliant Chapel
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I don’t think 1994’s Speed meets one of OP&rsquo...
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"period" is a gross word.
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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
Swashbuckling pea-brained den main people
  05/28/25
Doesn't qualify with your parameters but Clerks is classic 9...
Silver hospital
  05/27/25
Yes, but not a period piece. Lots of movies reflect their t...
Swashbuckling pea-brained den main people
  05/28/25
I think Superbad is set in the 2000s but it has a 90s aesthe...
Swashbuckling pea-brained den main people
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Same for Napoleon dynamite Technically set in 2003 but ru...
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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
Brilliant Chapel
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this is difficult imo because 9/11 really wiped clean our me...
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Tantric Dopamine
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Pain & Gain Mid90s The Informant!
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Pain & Gain is probably the best answer ITT
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Im a Curator
Narrow-minded Filthpig Haunted Graveyard
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Three Kings
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1999
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One Day (2011) Love and Other Drugs (2010)
poppy new version
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Black Hawk Down
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this
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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...
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the belgian crime drama 'Maldoror' about the marc dutroux ca...
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I feel like that’s too well known to even bother discu...
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Is The Departed set in the 1990s? Seemed to be based on the ...
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No. They were clearly using early 2000s era phones and using...
Brilliant Chapel
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tyvmft
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The Creek, the in-universe remake of Season 1 of Dawson's Cr...
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Harry Potter
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The OJ Simpson miniseries that was on FX a few years ago - t...
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Good one
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tv show but derry girls. wife insisted i watch it. i tho...
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It’s criminally underrated
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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:15 AM
Author: Swashbuckling pea-brained den main people



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:30 AM
Author: vivacious transparent senate

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

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:31 AM
Author: boyish medicated church

Who even watches these anymore?

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:31 AM
Author: Turquoise Plaza Volcanic Crater

I still watch Film

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: hateful supple brunch half-breed



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: Swashbuckling pea-brained den main people



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:29 PM
Author: blathering library

but yet you know nothing of it

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:33 AM
Author: Turquoise Plaza Volcanic Crater

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: maroon tanning salon generalized bond

mean girls was released in 2004 but feels older imo

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:34 AM
Author: Vigorous doctorate

True Detective season one



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:22 PM
Author: Tantric Dopamine



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:02 PM
Author: Swashbuckling pea-brained den main people

Best answer so far

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:48 AM
Author: infuriating slimy set indirect expression



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:23 PM
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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:28 PM
Author: hateful supple brunch half-breed

tp

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:39 PM
Author: Tantric Dopamine



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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:52 AM
Author: Swashbuckling pea-brained den main people

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: Self-absorbed Submissive Son Of Senegal National

Alpha Dog pops into mind first

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:44 AM
Author: Obsidian Excitant Property

(Nick Cassavetes)

(JT)

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:19 PM
Author: Swashbuckling pea-brained den main people

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: boyish medicated church

How to train your dragon

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:23 PM
Author: Irradiated lemon associate

social network.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:44 PM
Author: Twisted Nofapping Private Investor

Wolf of Wall Street

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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:23 PM
Author: hideous pale theater stage



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:24 PM
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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:58 PM
Author: Swashbuckling pea-brained den main people

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: Brilliant Chapel

Speed

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: Swashbuckling pea-brained den main people

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: Tantric Dopamine

Autoadmit.com

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: boyish medicated church

Nigger Feet

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: Translucent charismatic stage coffee pot

"period" is a gross word.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: hateful supple brunch half-breed

The Diaper

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:39 PM
Author: Tantric Dopamine



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: Swashbuckling pea-brained den main people

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: hateful supple brunch half-breed



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:08 PM
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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:44 AM
Author: hideous pale theater stage



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:49 AM
Author: Tantric Dopamine



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:18 PM
Author: Bateful wrinkle

The Queen (2006)

The Fighter (2010)

Erin Brocovich (2000)

I, Tonya (2017)

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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:50 AM
Author: Swashbuckling pea-brained den main people

Thanks for asking Chat to give you answers

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:03 PM
Author: Silver hospital

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: Swashbuckling pea-brained den main people

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: Swashbuckling pea-brained den main people

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: maroon tanning salon generalized bond

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: Swashbuckling pea-brained den main people

Good one

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:52 AM
Author: aquamarine laughsome tattoo bbw

lilo and stitch for the same reason

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:55 AM
Author: Tantric Dopamine



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Date: June 7th, 2025 4:43 AM
Author: Dull mood



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Date: June 14th, 2025 10:02 AM
Author: Swashbuckling pea-brained den main people

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: Brilliant Chapel

Road Trip

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:04 AM
Author: Vibrant giraffe useless brakes

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: Tantric Dopamine



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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:10 AM
Author: Narrow-minded Filthpig Haunted Graveyard

Pain & Gain

Mid90s

The Informant!

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Date: May 29th, 2025 4:23 AM
Author: Abnormal twinkling office

Pain & Gain is probably the best answer ITT

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Date: May 29th, 2025 7:11 AM
Author: Narrow-minded Filthpig Haunted Graveyard

Im a Curator

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:35 AM
Author: fuchsia genital piercing

Three Kings

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:38 AM
Author: Narrow-minded Filthpig Haunted Graveyard

1999

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:44 AM
Author: poppy new version

One Day (2011)

Love and Other Drugs (2010)

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Date: May 28th, 2025 8:48 PM
Author: flickering rehab

Black Hawk Down

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:13 AM
Author: infuriating slimy set indirect expression

this

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Date: May 29th, 2025 7:49 AM
Author: Swashbuckling pea-brained den main people

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: Turquoise Plaza Volcanic Crater

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: Dashing Water Buffalo

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: Swashbuckling pea-brained den main people

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: infuriating slimy set indirect expression

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: Brilliant Chapel

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: infuriating slimy set indirect expression

tyvmft

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:25 AM
Author: arrogant opaque resort

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 Frum Center Roast Beef

Harry Potter

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Date: June 3rd, 2025 3:07 AM
Author: Crystalline chest-beating range goyim

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: Swashbuckling pea-brained den main people

Good one

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Date: June 3rd, 2025 11:41 AM
Author: Abnormal twinkling office



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Date: June 7th, 2025 4:39 AM
Author: Brindle aphrodisiac cruise ship persian

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 Frum Center Roast Beef

It’s criminally underrated

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Date: June 9th, 2025 11:12 AM
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