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

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odious rusted business firm
  05/27/25
Big Lebowski almost qualifies, released in 1998 but set in 1...
bonkers talented idiot address
  05/27/25
Who even watches these anymore?
Underhanded den sneaky criminal
  05/27/25
I still watch Film
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khaki exhilarant goyim
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odious rusted business firm
  05/27/25
but yet you know nothing of it
iridescent gaped pit multi-billionaire
  05/27/25
Sir, I attended the Werner Herzog Film Seminar, pretty sure ...
frozen greedy party of the first part university
  05/28/25
mean girls was released in 2004 but feels older imo
Hateful dilemma
  05/27/25
True Detective season one
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Supple medicated theater
  05/27/25
Best answer so far
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High-end Cocky Lay
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tp
khaki exhilarant goyim
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Supple medicated theater
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The segways are the second biggest unresolved mystery after ...
odious rusted business firm
  05/28/25
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white yarmulke
  05/28/25
Alpha Dog pops into mind first
swashbuckling partner
  05/27/25
(Nick Cassavetes) (JT)
brilliant brunch indirect expression
  05/29/25
There are not a lot - certainly no great films. Add The F...
odious rusted business firm
  05/27/25
How to train your dragon
Underhanded den sneaky criminal
  05/27/25
social network.
Big newt
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Wolf of Wall Street
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Supple medicated theater
  05/27/25
Mostly an 80s movie though.
odious rusted business firm
  05/27/25
Speed
Titillating fat ankles
  05/27/25
I don’t think 1994’s Speed meets one of OP&rsquo...
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  05/27/25
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Supple medicated theater
  05/27/25
Nigger Feet
Underhanded den sneaky criminal
  05/27/25
"period" is a gross word.
Ruddy locale personal credit line
  05/27/25
The Diaper
khaki exhilarant goyim
  05/27/25
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Supple medicated theater
  05/27/25
I think this has to do with Klosterman’s theory about ...
odious rusted business firm
  05/27/25
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  05/27/25
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Supple medicated theater
  05/27/25
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The Queen (2006) The Fighter (2010) Erin Brocovich (2000) ...
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  05/27/25
Thanks for asking Chat to give you answers
odious rusted business firm
  05/28/25
Doesn't qualify with your parameters but Clerks is classic 9...
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  05/27/25
Yes, but not a period piece. Lots of movies reflect their t...
odious rusted business firm
  05/28/25
I think Superbad is set in the 2000s but it has a 90s aesthe...
odious rusted business firm
  05/28/25
Same for Napoleon dynamite Technically set in 2003 but ru...
Hateful dilemma
  05/28/25
Good one
odious rusted business firm
  05/28/25
lilo and stitch for the same reason
Hairraiser heaven becky
  05/28/25
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Supple medicated theater
  05/28/25
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heady out-of-control garrison
  06/07/25
Those tankard bracelets and Deb’s hair are incredibly ...
odious rusted business firm
  06/14/25
Road Trip
Titillating fat ankles
  05/28/25
this is difficult imo because 9/11 really wiped clean our me...
Glittery domesticated temple sweet tailpipe
  05/28/25
...
Supple medicated theater
  05/28/25
Pain & Gain Mid90s The Informant!
marvelous french chef
  05/28/25
Pain & Gain is probably the best answer ITT
Bat-shit-crazy Voyeur House
  05/29/25
Im a Curator
marvelous french chef
  05/29/25
Three Kings
white yarmulke
  05/28/25
1999
marvelous french chef
  05/28/25
One Day (2011) Love and Other Drugs (2010)
chocolate cracking clown
  05/28/25
Black Hawk Down
dashing theatre skinny woman
  05/28/25
this
deep nowag
  05/29/25
Lot of nostalgia for 1993 Somalia
odious rusted business firm
  05/29/25
I remember playing netdoom in an internet cafe in Berbera ar...
frozen greedy party of the first part university
  05/29/25
the belgian crime drama 'Maldoror' about the marc dutroux ca...
poppy exciting chapel prole
  05/28/25
I feel like that’s too well known to even bother discu...
odious rusted business firm
  05/29/25
Is The Departed set in the 1990s? Seemed to be based on the ...
deep nowag
  05/29/25
No. They were clearly using early 2000s era phones and using...
Titillating fat ankles
  05/29/25
tyvmft
deep nowag
  05/29/25
The Creek, the in-universe remake of Season 1 of Dawson's Cr...
spruce weed whacker
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Harry Potter
ebony trip mother hairy legs
  06/03/25
The OJ Simpson miniseries that was on FX a few years ago - t...
Aphrodisiac halford nursing home
  06/03/25
Good one
odious rusted business firm
  06/03/25
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Bat-shit-crazy Voyeur House
  06/03/25
tv show but derry girls. wife insisted i watch it. i tho...
unhinged parlour genital piercing
  06/07/25
It’s criminally underrated
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  06/08/25
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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:15 AM
Author: odious rusted business firm



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:30 AM
Author: bonkers talented idiot address

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

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:31 AM
Author: Underhanded den sneaky criminal

Who even watches these anymore?

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:31 AM
Author: frozen greedy party of the first part university

I still watch Film

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: khaki exhilarant goyim



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: odious rusted business firm



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:29 PM
Author: iridescent gaped pit multi-billionaire

but yet you know nothing of it

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:33 AM
Author: frozen greedy party of the first part university

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: Hateful dilemma

mean girls was released in 2004 but feels older imo

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:34 AM
Author: irradiated mildly autistic library

True Detective season one



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:22 PM
Author: Supple medicated theater



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:02 PM
Author: odious rusted business firm

Best answer so far

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:48 AM
Author: deep nowag



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:23 PM
Author: High-end Cocky Lay



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:28 PM
Author: khaki exhilarant goyim

tp

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:39 PM
Author: Supple medicated theater



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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:52 AM
Author: odious rusted business firm

The segways are the second biggest unresolved mystery after the lawnmower

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:34 AM
Author: white yarmulke



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:38 AM
Author: swashbuckling partner

Alpha Dog pops into mind first

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:44 AM
Author: brilliant brunch indirect expression

(Nick Cassavetes)

(JT)

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:19 PM
Author: odious rusted business firm

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: Underhanded den sneaky criminal

How to train your dragon

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:23 PM
Author: Big newt

social network.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:44 PM
Author: effete cream hominid

Wolf of Wall Street

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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:23 PM
Author: Racy Stead Dingle Berry



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:24 PM
Author: Supple medicated theater



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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:58 PM
Author: odious rusted business firm

Mostly an 80s movie though.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:45 PM
Author: Titillating fat ankles

Speed

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: odious rusted business firm

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: Supple medicated theater

Autoadmit.com

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: Underhanded den sneaky criminal

Nigger Feet

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: Ruddy locale personal credit line

"period" is a gross word.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: khaki exhilarant goyim

The Diaper

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:39 PM
Author: Supple medicated theater



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: odious rusted business firm

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: khaki exhilarant goyim



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:08 PM
Author: Supple medicated theater



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:44 AM
Author: Racy Stead Dingle Berry



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:49 AM
Author: Supple medicated theater



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:18 PM
Author: Stimulating Abusive Principal's Office

The Queen (2006)

The Fighter (2010)

Erin Brocovich (2000)

I, Tonya (2017)

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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:50 AM
Author: odious rusted business firm

Thanks for asking Chat to give you answers

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:03 PM
Author: zombie-like histrionic public bath new version

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: odious rusted business firm

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: odious rusted business firm

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: Hateful dilemma

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: odious rusted business firm

Good one

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:52 AM
Author: Hairraiser heaven becky

lilo and stitch for the same reason

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:55 AM
Author: Supple medicated theater



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Date: June 7th, 2025 4:43 AM
Author: heady out-of-control garrison



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Date: June 14th, 2025 10:02 AM
Author: odious rusted business firm

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

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:59 AM
Author: Titillating fat ankles

Road Trip

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:04 AM
Author: Glittery domesticated temple sweet tailpipe

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: Supple medicated theater



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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:10 AM
Author: marvelous french chef

Pain & Gain

Mid90s

The Informant!

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Date: May 29th, 2025 4:23 AM
Author: Bat-shit-crazy Voyeur House

Pain & Gain is probably the best answer ITT

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Date: May 29th, 2025 7:11 AM
Author: marvelous french chef

Im a Curator

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:35 AM
Author: white yarmulke

Three Kings

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:38 AM
Author: marvelous french chef

1999

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:44 AM
Author: chocolate cracking clown

One Day (2011)

Love and Other Drugs (2010)

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Date: May 28th, 2025 8:48 PM
Author: dashing theatre skinny woman

Black Hawk Down

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:13 AM
Author: deep nowag

this

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Date: May 29th, 2025 7:49 AM
Author: odious rusted business firm

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: frozen greedy party of the first part university

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: poppy exciting chapel prole

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: odious rusted business firm

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: deep nowag

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: Titillating fat ankles

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: deep nowag

tyvmft

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:25 AM
Author: spruce weed whacker

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: ebony trip mother hairy legs

Harry Potter

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Date: June 3rd, 2025 3:07 AM
Author: Aphrodisiac halford nursing home

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: odious rusted business firm

Good one

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Date: June 3rd, 2025 11:41 AM
Author: Bat-shit-crazy Voyeur House



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Date: June 7th, 2025 4:39 AM
Author: unhinged parlour genital piercing

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: ebony trip mother hairy legs

It’s criminally underrated

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Date: June 9th, 2025 11:12 AM
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