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

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Cracking love of her life background story
  05/27/25
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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Cracking love of her life background story
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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 ...
Olive mad cow disease
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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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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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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.
Cracking love of her life background story
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Speed
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I don’t think 1994’s Speed meets one of OP&rsquo...
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Nigger Feet
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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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Cracking love of her life background story
  05/28/25
Doesn't qualify with your parameters but Clerks is classic 9...
contagious geriatric house bbw
  05/27/25
Yes, but not a period piece. Lots of movies reflect their t...
Cracking love of her life background story
  05/28/25
I think Superbad is set in the 2000s but it has a 90s aesthe...
Cracking love of her life background story
  05/28/25
Same for Napoleon dynamite Technically set in 2003 but ru...
supple garrison
  05/28/25
Good one
Cracking love of her life background story
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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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this is difficult imo because 9/11 really wiped clean our me...
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Pain & Gain is probably the best answer ITT
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Im a Curator
Aromatic autistic depressive
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Three Kings
Disgusting Ivory Lettuce
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1999
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One Day (2011) Love and Other Drugs (2010)
exhilarant generalized bond queen of the night
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Black Hawk Down
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this
Mind-boggling heaven
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Lot of nostalgia for 1993 Somalia
Cracking love of her life background story
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I remember playing netdoom in an internet cafe in Berbera ar...
Olive mad cow disease
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the belgian crime drama 'Maldoror' about the marc dutroux ca...
Titillating stead
  05/28/25
I feel like that’s too well known to even bother discu...
Cracking love of her life background story
  05/29/25
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...
very tactful galvanic juggernaut institution
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tyvmft
Mind-boggling heaven
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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...
multi-colored low-t macaca reading party
  06/03/25
Good one
Cracking love of her life background story
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Tantric frozen ratface
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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: Cracking love of her life background story



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:30 AM
Author: Rusted Candlestick Maker Library

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: 180 casino

Who even watches these anymore?

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:31 AM
Author: Olive mad cow disease

I still watch Film

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: Impressive electric furnace coffee pot



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: Cracking love of her life background story



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:29 PM
Author: Spectacular corner

but yet you know nothing of it

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:33 AM
Author: Olive mad cow disease

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: supple garrison

mean girls was released in 2004 but feels older imo

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:34 AM
Author: Up-to-no-good boistinker parlor

True Detective season one



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:22 PM
Author: crawly chapel ceo



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:02 PM
Author: Cracking love of her life background story

Best answer so far

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:48 AM
Author: Mind-boggling heaven



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:23 PM
Author: stirring church striped hyena



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:28 PM
Author: Impressive electric furnace coffee pot

tp

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:39 PM
Author: crawly chapel ceo



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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:52 AM
Author: Cracking love of her life background story

The segways are the second biggest unresolved mystery after the lawnmower

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:34 AM
Author: Disgusting Ivory Lettuce



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:38 AM
Author: Amber chad

Alpha Dog pops into mind first

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:44 AM
Author: Wonderful crimson lay ladyboy

(Nick Cassavetes)

(JT)

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:19 PM
Author: Cracking love of her life background story

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: 180 casino

How to train your dragon

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:23 PM
Author: Maroon Bonkers Station

social network.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:44 PM
Author: Brass Underhanded Round Eye Address

Wolf of Wall Street

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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:23 PM
Author: Thriller Orchestra Pit



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:24 PM
Author: crawly chapel ceo



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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:58 PM
Author: Cracking love of her life background story

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: very tactful galvanic juggernaut institution

Speed

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: Cracking love of her life background story

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: crawly chapel ceo

Autoadmit.com

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: 180 casino

Nigger Feet

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: vivacious dun ticket booth double fault

"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: Impressive electric furnace coffee pot

The Diaper

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:39 PM
Author: crawly chapel ceo



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: Cracking love of her life background story

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: Impressive electric furnace coffee pot



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:08 PM
Author: crawly chapel ceo



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:44 AM
Author: Thriller Orchestra Pit



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:49 AM
Author: crawly chapel ceo



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:18 PM
Author: Silver indian lodge

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: Cracking love of her life background story

Thanks for asking Chat to give you answers

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:03 PM
Author: contagious geriatric house bbw

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: Cracking love of her life background story

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: Cracking love of her life background story

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: supple garrison

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: Cracking love of her life background story

Good one

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:52 AM
Author: jade well-lubricated church building hunting ground

lilo and stitch for the same reason

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:55 AM
Author: crawly chapel ceo



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Date: June 7th, 2025 4:43 AM
Author: Ocher Floppy Affirmative Action Pisswyrm



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Date: June 14th, 2025 10:02 AM
Author: Cracking love of her life background story

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: very tactful galvanic juggernaut institution

Road Trip

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:04 AM
Author: Khaki razzle-dazzle windowlicker home

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: crawly chapel ceo



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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:10 AM
Author: Aromatic autistic depressive

Pain & Gain

Mid90s

The Informant!

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Date: May 29th, 2025 4:23 AM
Author: Tantric frozen ratface

Pain & Gain is probably the best answer ITT

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Date: May 29th, 2025 7:11 AM
Author: Aromatic autistic depressive

Im a Curator

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:35 AM
Author: Disgusting Ivory Lettuce

Three Kings

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:38 AM
Author: Aromatic autistic depressive

1999

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:44 AM
Author: exhilarant generalized bond queen of the night

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: milky arousing school pistol

Black Hawk Down

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:13 AM
Author: Mind-boggling heaven

this

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Date: May 29th, 2025 7:49 AM
Author: Cracking love of her life background story

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: Olive mad cow disease

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: Titillating stead

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: Cracking love of her life background story

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: Mind-boggling heaven

Is The Departed set in the 1990s? Seemed to be based on the tech used

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2#48969841)



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Date: May 29th, 2025 6:44 AM
Author: very tactful galvanic juggernaut 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

(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: Mind-boggling heaven

tyvmft

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:25 AM
Author: ruby keepsake machete

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: big insecure area

Harry Potter

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Date: June 3rd, 2025 3:07 AM
Author: multi-colored low-t macaca reading party

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: Cracking love of her life background story

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: Tantric frozen ratface



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Date: June 7th, 2025 4:39 AM
Author: swashbuckling national international law enforcement agency

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: big insecure area

It’s criminally underrated

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Date: June 9th, 2025 11:12 AM
Author: swashbuckling national international law enforcement agency



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