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

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Vigorous Ivory Pistol
  05/27/25
Big Lebowski almost qualifies, released in 1998 but set in 1...
Heady metal pit juggernaut
  05/27/25
Who even watches these anymore?
Cracking swollen queen of the night coldplay fan
  05/27/25
I still watch Film
Maize university reading party
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bossy trailer park
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Vigorous Ivory Pistol
  05/27/25
but yet you know nothing of it
Galvanic yellow mad-dog skullcap hominid
  05/27/25
Sir, I attended the Werner Herzog Film Seminar, pretty sure ...
Maize university reading party
  05/28/25
mean girls was released in 2004 but feels older imo
Apoplectic sanctuary dingle berry
  05/27/25
True Detective season one
beady-eyed hideous dopamine
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aromatic buck-toothed antidepressant drug
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Best answer so far
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soul-stirring alcoholic degenerate institution
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tp
bossy trailer park
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aromatic buck-toothed antidepressant drug
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The segways are the second biggest unresolved mystery after ...
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Charismatic Pozpig Location
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Alpha Dog pops into mind first
appetizing digit ratio party of the first part
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(Nick Cassavetes) (JT)
bull headed range roommate
  05/29/25
There are not a lot - certainly no great films. Add The F...
Vigorous Ivory Pistol
  05/27/25
How to train your dragon
Cracking swollen queen of the night coldplay fan
  05/27/25
social network.
impertinent ungodly locale becky
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Wolf of Wall Street
Trip garnet shitlib hell
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aromatic buck-toothed antidepressant drug
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Mostly an 80s movie though.
Vigorous Ivory Pistol
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Speed
cobalt goal in life
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I don’t think 1994’s Speed meets one of OP&rsquo...
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Nigger Feet
Cracking swollen queen of the night coldplay fan
  05/27/25
"period" is a gross word.
Scarlet partner messiness
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The Diaper
bossy trailer park
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aromatic buck-toothed antidepressant drug
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I think this has to do with Klosterman’s theory about ...
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bossy trailer park
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aromatic buck-toothed antidepressant drug
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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
Vigorous Ivory Pistol
  05/28/25
Doesn't qualify with your parameters but Clerks is classic 9...
Swashbuckling indigo state
  05/27/25
Yes, but not a period piece. Lots of movies reflect their t...
Vigorous Ivory Pistol
  05/28/25
I think Superbad is set in the 2000s but it has a 90s aesthe...
Vigorous Ivory Pistol
  05/28/25
Same for Napoleon dynamite Technically set in 2003 but ru...
Apoplectic sanctuary dingle berry
  05/28/25
Good one
Vigorous Ivory Pistol
  05/28/25
lilo and stitch for the same reason
Olive Zombie-like Stock Car
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aromatic buck-toothed antidepressant drug
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Multi-colored copper temple
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Those tankard bracelets and Deb’s hair are incredibly ...
Vigorous Ivory Pistol
  06/14/25
Road Trip
cobalt goal in life
  05/28/25
this is difficult imo because 9/11 really wiped clean our me...
Exhilarant Shivering Mental Disorder
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aromatic buck-toothed antidepressant drug
  05/28/25
Pain & Gain Mid90s The Informant!
razzle sapphire generalized bond
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Pain & Gain is probably the best answer ITT
Primrose stead
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Im a Curator
razzle sapphire generalized bond
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Three Kings
Charismatic Pozpig Location
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1999
razzle sapphire generalized bond
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One Day (2011) Love and Other Drugs (2010)
Stimulating Skinny Woman Sandwich
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Black Hawk Down
Sticky Brethren Stain
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this
gaped garrison
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Lot of nostalgia for 1993 Somalia
Vigorous Ivory Pistol
  05/29/25
I remember playing netdoom in an internet cafe in Berbera ar...
Maize university reading party
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the belgian crime drama 'Maldoror' about the marc dutroux ca...
insanely creepy useless station candlestick maker
  05/28/25
I feel like that’s too well known to even bother discu...
Vigorous Ivory Pistol
  05/29/25
Is The Departed set in the 1990s? Seemed to be based on the ...
gaped garrison
  05/29/25
No. They were clearly using early 2000s era phones and using...
cobalt goal in life
  05/29/25
tyvmft
gaped garrison
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The Creek, the in-universe remake of Season 1 of Dawson's Cr...
irradiated ape
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Harry Potter
Judgmental base
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The OJ Simpson miniseries that was on FX a few years ago - t...
self-absorbed red office friendly grandma
  06/03/25
Good one
Vigorous Ivory Pistol
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Primrose stead
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tv show but derry girls. wife insisted i watch it. i tho...
spruce sinister principal's office coffee pot
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It’s criminally underrated
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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:15 AM
Author: Vigorous Ivory Pistol



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:30 AM
Author: Heady metal pit juggernaut

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

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:31 AM
Author: Cracking swollen queen of the night coldplay fan

Who even watches these anymore?

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:31 AM
Author: Maize university reading party

I still watch Film

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: bossy trailer park



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: Vigorous Ivory Pistol



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:29 PM
Author: Galvanic yellow mad-dog skullcap hominid

but yet you know nothing of it

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:33 AM
Author: Maize university reading party

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: Apoplectic sanctuary dingle berry

mean girls was released in 2004 but feels older imo

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:34 AM
Author: beady-eyed hideous dopamine

True Detective season one



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:22 PM
Author: aromatic buck-toothed antidepressant drug



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:02 PM
Author: Vigorous Ivory Pistol

Best answer so far

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:48 AM
Author: gaped garrison



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:23 PM
Author: soul-stirring alcoholic degenerate institution



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:28 PM
Author: bossy trailer park

tp

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:39 PM
Author: aromatic buck-toothed antidepressant drug



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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:52 AM
Author: Vigorous Ivory Pistol

The segways are the second biggest unresolved mystery after the lawnmower

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:34 AM
Author: Charismatic Pozpig Location



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:38 AM
Author: appetizing digit ratio party of the first part

Alpha Dog pops into mind first

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:44 AM
Author: bull headed range roommate

(Nick Cassavetes)

(JT)

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:19 PM
Author: Vigorous Ivory Pistol

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: Cracking swollen queen of the night coldplay fan

How to train your dragon

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:23 PM
Author: impertinent ungodly locale becky

social network.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:44 PM
Author: Trip garnet shitlib hell

Wolf of Wall Street

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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:23 PM
Author: naked glittery fat ankles



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:24 PM
Author: aromatic buck-toothed antidepressant drug



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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:58 PM
Author: Vigorous Ivory Pistol

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: cobalt goal in life

Speed

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: Vigorous Ivory Pistol

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: aromatic buck-toothed antidepressant drug

Autoadmit.com

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: Cracking swollen queen of the night coldplay fan

Nigger Feet

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: Scarlet partner messiness

"period" is a gross word.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: bossy trailer park

The Diaper

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:39 PM
Author: aromatic buck-toothed antidepressant drug



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: Vigorous Ivory Pistol

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: bossy trailer park



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:08 PM
Author: aromatic buck-toothed antidepressant drug



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:44 AM
Author: naked glittery fat ankles



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:49 AM
Author: aromatic buck-toothed antidepressant drug



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:18 PM
Author: Vermilion Private Investor Resort

The Queen (2006)

The Fighter (2010)

Erin Brocovich (2000)

I, Tonya (2017)

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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:50 AM
Author: Vigorous Ivory Pistol

Thanks for asking Chat to give you answers

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:03 PM
Author: Swashbuckling indigo state

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

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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:52 AM
Author: Vigorous Ivory Pistol

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
Author: Vigorous Ivory Pistol

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: Apoplectic sanctuary dingle berry

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: Vigorous Ivory Pistol

Good one

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:52 AM
Author: Olive Zombie-like Stock Car

lilo and stitch for the same reason

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:55 AM
Author: aromatic buck-toothed antidepressant drug



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Date: June 7th, 2025 4:43 AM
Author: Multi-colored copper temple



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Date: June 14th, 2025 10:02 AM
Author: Vigorous Ivory Pistol

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

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:59 AM
Author: cobalt goal in life

Road Trip

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:04 AM
Author: Exhilarant Shivering Mental Disorder

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: aromatic buck-toothed antidepressant drug



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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:10 AM
Author: razzle sapphire generalized bond

Pain & Gain

Mid90s

The Informant!

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Date: May 29th, 2025 4:23 AM
Author: Primrose stead

Pain & Gain is probably the best answer ITT

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Date: May 29th, 2025 7:11 AM
Author: razzle sapphire generalized bond

Im a Curator

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:35 AM
Author: Charismatic Pozpig Location

Three Kings

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:38 AM
Author: razzle sapphire generalized bond

1999

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:44 AM
Author: Stimulating Skinny Woman Sandwich

One Day (2011)

Love and Other Drugs (2010)

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Date: May 28th, 2025 8:48 PM
Author: Sticky Brethren Stain

Black Hawk Down

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:13 AM
Author: gaped garrison

this

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Date: May 29th, 2025 7:49 AM
Author: Vigorous Ivory Pistol

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: Maize university reading party

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: insanely creepy useless station candlestick maker

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: Vigorous Ivory Pistol

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

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:14 AM
Author: gaped garrison

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: cobalt goal in life

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: gaped garrison

tyvmft

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:25 AM
Author: irradiated ape

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: Judgmental base

Harry Potter

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Date: June 3rd, 2025 3:07 AM
Author: self-absorbed red office friendly grandma

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: Vigorous Ivory Pistol

Good one

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Date: June 3rd, 2025 11:41 AM
Author: Primrose stead



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Date: June 7th, 2025 4:39 AM
Author: spruce sinister principal's office coffee pot

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: Judgmental base

It’s criminally underrated

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Date: June 9th, 2025 11:12 AM
Author: spruce sinister principal's office coffee pot



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