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

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Crimson trailer park rigpig
  05/27/25
Big Lebowski almost qualifies, released in 1998 but set in 1...
Irradiated doctorate
  05/27/25
Who even watches these anymore?
motley pervert ratface
  05/27/25
I still watch Film
sick opaque marketing idea
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Khaki trip black woman
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Crimson trailer park rigpig
  05/27/25
but yet you know nothing of it
slippery fear-inspiring resort antidepressant drug
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Sir, I attended the Werner Herzog Film Seminar, pretty sure ...
sick opaque marketing idea
  05/28/25
mean girls was released in 2004 but feels older imo
big ocher dragon box office
  05/27/25
True Detective season one
Salmon sweet tailpipe
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Puce boyish base
  05/27/25
Best answer so far
Crimson trailer park rigpig
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Aquamarine home
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Seedy poppy windowlicker tank
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tp
Khaki trip black woman
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Puce boyish base
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The segways are the second biggest unresolved mystery after ...
Crimson trailer park rigpig
  05/28/25
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slap-happy insecure area
  05/28/25
Alpha Dog pops into mind first
light twisted really tough guy
  05/27/25
(Nick Cassavetes) (JT)
spruce shitlib hominid
  05/29/25
There are not a lot - certainly no great films. Add The F...
Crimson trailer park rigpig
  05/27/25
How to train your dragon
motley pervert ratface
  05/27/25
social network.
Excitant turquoise principal's office
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Wolf of Wall Street
Stimulating narrow-minded public bath
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Mint frozen turdskin
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Puce boyish base
  05/27/25
Mostly an 80s movie though.
Crimson trailer park rigpig
  05/27/25
Speed
Up-to-no-good multi-billionaire
  05/27/25
I don’t think 1994’s Speed meets one of OP&rsquo...
Crimson trailer park rigpig
  05/27/25
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Puce boyish base
  05/27/25
Nigger Feet
motley pervert ratface
  05/27/25
"period" is a gross word.
Pontificating office
  05/27/25
The Diaper
Khaki trip black woman
  05/27/25
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Puce boyish base
  05/27/25
I think this has to do with Klosterman’s theory about ...
Crimson trailer park rigpig
  05/27/25
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Khaki trip black woman
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Puce boyish base
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Mint frozen turdskin
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Puce boyish base
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The Queen (2006) The Fighter (2010) Erin Brocovich (2000) ...
racy organic girlfriend
  05/27/25
Thanks for asking Chat to give you answers
Crimson trailer park rigpig
  05/28/25
Doesn't qualify with your parameters but Clerks is classic 9...
deep volcanic crater circlehead
  05/27/25
Yes, but not a period piece. Lots of movies reflect their t...
Crimson trailer park rigpig
  05/28/25
I think Superbad is set in the 2000s but it has a 90s aesthe...
Crimson trailer park rigpig
  05/28/25
Same for Napoleon dynamite Technically set in 2003 but ru...
big ocher dragon box office
  05/28/25
Good one
Crimson trailer park rigpig
  05/28/25
lilo and stitch for the same reason
walnut associate
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Puce boyish base
  05/28/25
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Brindle telephone
  06/07/25
Those tankard bracelets and Deb’s hair are incredibly ...
Crimson trailer park rigpig
  06/14/25
Road Trip
Up-to-no-good multi-billionaire
  05/28/25
this is difficult imo because 9/11 really wiped clean our me...
apoplectic piazza
  05/28/25
...
Puce boyish base
  05/28/25
Pain & Gain Mid90s The Informant!
frum electric furnace stock car
  05/28/25
Pain & Gain is probably the best answer ITT
Talented unholy school people who are hurt
  05/29/25
Im a Curator
frum electric furnace stock car
  05/29/25
Three Kings
slap-happy insecure area
  05/28/25
1999
frum electric furnace stock car
  05/28/25
One Day (2011) Love and Other Drugs (2010)
drab filthpig
  05/28/25
Black Hawk Down
hyperactive aphrodisiac state jap
  05/28/25
this
Aquamarine home
  05/29/25
Lot of nostalgia for 1993 Somalia
Crimson trailer park rigpig
  05/29/25
I remember playing netdoom in an internet cafe in Berbera ar...
sick opaque marketing idea
  05/29/25
the belgian crime drama 'Maldoror' about the marc dutroux ca...
Transparent learning disabled address
  05/28/25
I feel like that’s too well known to even bother discu...
Crimson trailer park rigpig
  05/29/25
Is The Departed set in the 1990s? Seemed to be based on the ...
Aquamarine home
  05/29/25
No. They were clearly using early 2000s era phones and using...
Up-to-no-good multi-billionaire
  05/29/25
tyvmft
Aquamarine home
  05/29/25
The Creek, the in-universe remake of Season 1 of Dawson's Cr...
bateful offensive personal credit line
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Harry Potter
Cracking Coldplay Fan Orchestra Pit
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The OJ Simpson miniseries that was on FX a few years ago - t...
Coiffed passionate meetinghouse
  06/03/25
Good one
Crimson trailer park rigpig
  06/03/25
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Talented unholy school people who are hurt
  06/03/25
tv show but derry girls. wife insisted i watch it. i tho...
shivering laughsome gas station indirect expression
  06/07/25
It’s criminally underrated
Cracking Coldplay Fan Orchestra Pit
  06/08/25
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shivering laughsome gas station indirect expression
  06/09/25


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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:15 AM
Author: Crimson trailer park rigpig



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:30 AM
Author: Irradiated doctorate

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

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:31 AM
Author: motley pervert ratface

Who even watches these anymore?

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:31 AM
Author: sick opaque marketing idea

I still watch Film

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: Khaki trip black woman



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: Crimson trailer park rigpig



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:29 PM
Author: slippery fear-inspiring resort antidepressant drug

but yet you know nothing of it

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:33 AM
Author: sick opaque marketing idea

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: big ocher dragon box office

mean girls was released in 2004 but feels older imo

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:34 AM
Author: Salmon sweet tailpipe

True Detective season one



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:22 PM
Author: Puce boyish base



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:02 PM
Author: Crimson trailer park rigpig

Best answer so far

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:48 AM
Author: Aquamarine home



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:23 PM
Author: Seedy poppy windowlicker tank



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:28 PM
Author: Khaki trip black woman

tp

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:39 PM
Author: Puce boyish base



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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:52 AM
Author: Crimson trailer park rigpig

The segways are the second biggest unresolved mystery after the lawnmower

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:34 AM
Author: slap-happy insecure area



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:38 AM
Author: light twisted really tough guy

Alpha Dog pops into mind first

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:44 AM
Author: spruce shitlib hominid

(Nick Cassavetes)

(JT)

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:19 PM
Author: Crimson trailer park rigpig

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: motley pervert ratface

How to train your dragon

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:23 PM
Author: Excitant turquoise principal's office

social network.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:44 PM
Author: Stimulating narrow-minded public bath

Wolf of Wall Street

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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:23 PM
Author: Mint frozen turdskin



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:24 PM
Author: Puce boyish base



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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:58 PM
Author: Crimson trailer park rigpig

Mostly an 80s movie though.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2...id.#48966409)



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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:45 PM
Author: Up-to-no-good multi-billionaire

Speed

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: Crimson trailer park rigpig

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: Puce boyish base

Autoadmit.com

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: motley pervert ratface

Nigger Feet

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: Pontificating office

"period" is a gross word.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: Khaki trip black woman

The Diaper

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:39 PM
Author: Puce boyish base



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: Crimson trailer park rigpig

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: Khaki trip black woman



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:08 PM
Author: Puce boyish base



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:44 AM
Author: Mint frozen turdskin



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:49 AM
Author: Puce boyish base



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:18 PM
Author: racy organic girlfriend

The Queen (2006)

The Fighter (2010)

Erin Brocovich (2000)

I, Tonya (2017)

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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:50 AM
Author: Crimson trailer park rigpig

Thanks for asking Chat to give you answers

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:03 PM
Author: deep volcanic crater circlehead

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

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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:52 AM
Author: Crimson trailer park rigpig

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...id.#48966871)



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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:54 AM
Author: Crimson trailer park rigpig

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: big ocher dragon box office

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: Crimson trailer park rigpig

Good one

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:52 AM
Author: walnut associate

lilo and stitch for the same reason

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:55 AM
Author: Puce boyish base



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Date: June 7th, 2025 4:43 AM
Author: Brindle telephone



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Date: June 14th, 2025 10:02 AM
Author: Crimson trailer park rigpig

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

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:59 AM
Author: Up-to-no-good multi-billionaire

Road Trip

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:04 AM
Author: apoplectic piazza

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: Puce boyish base



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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:10 AM
Author: frum electric furnace stock car

Pain & Gain

Mid90s

The Informant!

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Date: May 29th, 2025 4:23 AM
Author: Talented unholy school people who are hurt

Pain & Gain is probably the best answer ITT

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Date: May 29th, 2025 7:11 AM
Author: frum electric furnace stock car

Im a Curator

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:35 AM
Author: slap-happy insecure area

Three Kings

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:38 AM
Author: frum electric furnace stock car

1999

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:44 AM
Author: drab filthpig

One Day (2011)

Love and Other Drugs (2010)

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Date: May 28th, 2025 8:48 PM
Author: hyperactive aphrodisiac state jap

Black Hawk Down

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:13 AM
Author: Aquamarine home

this

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Date: May 29th, 2025 7:49 AM
Author: Crimson trailer park rigpig

Lot of nostalgia for 1993 Somalia

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2...id.#48969956)



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Date: May 29th, 2025 8:44 AM
Author: sick opaque marketing idea

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...id.#48970015)



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Date: May 28th, 2025 8:54 PM
Author: Transparent learning disabled address

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2...id.#48969260)



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Date: May 29th, 2025 4:08 AM
Author: Crimson trailer park rigpig

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

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:14 AM
Author: Aquamarine home

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: Up-to-no-good multi-billionaire

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: Aquamarine home

tyvmft

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:25 AM
Author: bateful offensive personal credit line

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: Cracking Coldplay Fan Orchestra Pit

Harry Potter

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Date: June 3rd, 2025 3:07 AM
Author: Coiffed passionate meetinghouse

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...id.#48982587)



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Date: June 3rd, 2025 10:09 AM
Author: Crimson trailer park rigpig

Good one

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Date: June 3rd, 2025 11:41 AM
Author: Talented unholy school people who are hurt



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Date: June 7th, 2025 4:39 AM
Author: shivering laughsome gas station indirect expression

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: Cracking Coldplay Fan Orchestra Pit

It’s criminally underrated

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Date: June 9th, 2025 11:12 AM
Author: shivering laughsome gas station indirect expression



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