\
  The most prestigious law school admissions discussion board in the world.
BackRefresh Options Favorite

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

...
big den gaping
  05/27/25
Big Lebowski almost qualifies, released in 1998 but set in 1...
aphrodisiac chocolate kitty cat
  05/27/25
Who even watches these anymore?
curious startling principal's office travel guidebook
  05/27/25
I still watch Film
Costumed queen of the night
  05/27/25
...
doobsian pervert
  05/27/25
...
big den gaping
  05/27/25
but yet you know nothing of it
swashbuckling peach generalized bond
  05/27/25
Sir, I attended the Werner Herzog Film Seminar, pretty sure ...
Costumed queen of the night
  05/28/25
mean girls was released in 2004 but feels older imo
blue sadistic lodge
  05/27/25
True Detective season one
odious hall
  05/27/25
...
Hairraiser toilet seat deer antler
  05/27/25
Best answer so far
big den gaping
  05/27/25
...
scarlet sexy school cafeteria
  05/29/25
...
talking property tattoo
  05/27/25
tp
doobsian pervert
  05/27/25
...
Hairraiser toilet seat deer antler
  05/27/25
The segways are the second biggest unresolved mystery after ...
big den gaping
  05/28/25
...
Lavender Insecure Lay Bbw
  05/28/25
Alpha Dog pops into mind first
underhanded old irish cottage theatre
  05/27/25
(Nick Cassavetes) (JT)
Excitant Greedy Legend
  05/29/25
There are not a lot - certainly no great films. Add The F...
big den gaping
  05/27/25
How to train your dragon
curious startling principal's office travel guidebook
  05/27/25
social network.
Stirring salmon gay wizard hospital
  05/27/25
Wolf of Wall Street
adventurous stag film
  05/27/25
...
vigorous fiercely-loyal menage
  05/27/25
...
Hairraiser toilet seat deer antler
  05/27/25
Mostly an 80s movie though.
big den gaping
  05/27/25
Speed
Laughsome Athletic Conference
  05/27/25
I don’t think 1994’s Speed meets one of OP&rsquo...
big den gaping
  05/27/25
Autoadmit.com
Hairraiser toilet seat deer antler
  05/27/25
Nigger Feet
curious startling principal's office travel guidebook
  05/27/25
"period" is a gross word.
Primrose regret
  05/27/25
The Diaper
doobsian pervert
  05/27/25
...
Hairraiser toilet seat deer antler
  05/27/25
I think this has to do with Klosterman’s theory about ...
big den gaping
  05/27/25
...
doobsian pervert
  05/27/25
...
Hairraiser toilet seat deer antler
  05/27/25
...
vigorous fiercely-loyal menage
  05/28/25
...
Hairraiser toilet seat deer antler
  05/28/25
The Queen (2006) The Fighter (2010) Erin Brocovich (2000) ...
Soul-stirring godawful fanboi indirect expression
  05/27/25
Thanks for asking Chat to give you answers
big den gaping
  05/28/25
Doesn't qualify with your parameters but Clerks is classic 9...
Elite bossy candlestick maker
  05/27/25
Yes, but not a period piece. Lots of movies reflect their t...
big den gaping
  05/28/25
I think Superbad is set in the 2000s but it has a 90s aesthe...
big den gaping
  05/28/25
Same for Napoleon dynamite Technically set in 2003 but ru...
blue sadistic lodge
  05/28/25
Good one
big den gaping
  05/28/25
lilo and stitch for the same reason
Beady-eyed black woman
  05/28/25
...
Hairraiser toilet seat deer antler
  05/28/25
...
passionate sepia orchestra pit sweet tailpipe
  06/07/25
Those tankard bracelets and Deb’s hair are incredibly ...
big den gaping
  06/14/25
Road Trip
Laughsome Athletic Conference
  05/28/25
this is difficult imo because 9/11 really wiped clean our me...
Ultramarine public bath keepsake machete
  05/28/25
...
Hairraiser toilet seat deer antler
  05/28/25
Pain & Gain Mid90s The Informant!
Bespoke feces trailer park
  05/28/25
Pain & Gain is probably the best answer ITT
Useless honey-headed hell juggernaut
  05/29/25
Im a Curator
Bespoke feces trailer park
  05/29/25
Three Kings
Lavender Insecure Lay Bbw
  05/28/25
1999
Bespoke feces trailer park
  05/28/25
One Day (2011) Love and Other Drugs (2010)
razzmatazz bronze set
  05/28/25
Black Hawk Down
Pearl Elastic Band Giraffe
  05/28/25
this
scarlet sexy school cafeteria
  05/29/25
Lot of nostalgia for 1993 Somalia
big den gaping
  05/29/25
I remember playing netdoom in an internet cafe in Berbera ar...
Costumed queen of the night
  05/29/25
the belgian crime drama 'Maldoror' about the marc dutroux ca...
Ivory apoplectic mad-dog skullcap
  05/28/25
I feel like that’s too well known to even bother discu...
big den gaping
  05/29/25
Is The Departed set in the 1990s? Seemed to be based on the ...
scarlet sexy school cafeteria
  05/29/25
No. They were clearly using early 2000s era phones and using...
Laughsome Athletic Conference
  05/29/25
tyvmft
scarlet sexy school cafeteria
  05/29/25
The Creek, the in-universe remake of Season 1 of Dawson's Cr...
Mahogany senate
  05/29/25
Harry Potter
Awkward flirting base weed whacker
  06/03/25
The OJ Simpson miniseries that was on FX a few years ago - t...
self-centered tripping church building filthpig
  06/03/25
Good one
big den gaping
  06/03/25
...
Useless honey-headed hell juggernaut
  06/03/25
tv show but derry girls. wife insisted i watch it. i tho...
ungodly galvanic water buffalo church
  06/07/25
It’s criminally underrated
Awkward flirting base weed whacker
  06/08/25
...
ungodly galvanic water buffalo church
  06/09/25


Poast new message in this thread



Reply Favorite

Date: May 27th, 2025 11:15 AM
Author: big den gaping



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2E#48964636)



Reply Favorite

Date: May 27th, 2025 11:30 AM
Author: aphrodisiac chocolate kitty cat

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2E#48964673)



Reply Favorite

Date: May 27th, 2025 11:31 AM
Author: curious startling principal's office travel guidebook

Who even watches these anymore?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2E#48964678)



Reply Favorite

Date: May 27th, 2025 11:31 AM
Author: Costumed queen of the night

I still watch Film

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2E#48964679)



Reply Favorite

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



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2E#48966414)



Reply Favorite

Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: big den gaping



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2E#48966426)



Reply Favorite

Date: May 27th, 2025 10:29 PM
Author: swashbuckling peach generalized bond

but yet you know nothing of it

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2E#48966485)



Reply Favorite

Date: May 28th, 2025 10:33 AM
Author: Costumed queen of the night

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=2E#48967267)



Reply Favorite

Date: May 27th, 2025 11:32 AM
Author: blue sadistic lodge

mean girls was released in 2004 but feels older imo

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2E#48964686)



Reply Favorite

Date: May 27th, 2025 11:34 AM
Author: odious hall

True Detective season one



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2E#48964695)



Reply Favorite

Date: May 27th, 2025 1:22 PM
Author: Hairraiser toilet seat deer antler



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2E#48965019)



Reply Favorite

Date: May 27th, 2025 10:02 PM
Author: big den gaping

Best answer so far

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2E#48966429)



Reply Favorite

Date: May 29th, 2025 5:48 AM
Author: scarlet sexy school cafeteria



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2E#48969856)



Reply Favorite

Date: May 27th, 2025 10:23 PM
Author: talking property tattoo



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2E#48966474)



Reply Favorite

Date: May 27th, 2025 10:28 PM
Author: doobsian pervert

tp

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2E#48966483)



Reply Favorite

Date: May 27th, 2025 10:39 PM
Author: Hairraiser toilet seat deer antler



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2E#48966508)



Reply Favorite

Date: May 28th, 2025 6:52 AM
Author: big den gaping

The segways are the second biggest unresolved mystery after the lawnmower

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2E#48966872)



Reply Favorite

Date: May 28th, 2025 10:34 AM
Author: Lavender Insecure Lay Bbw



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2E#48967276)



Reply Favorite

Date: May 27th, 2025 11:38 AM
Author: underhanded old irish cottage theatre

Alpha Dog pops into mind first

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2E#48964710)



Reply Favorite

Date: May 29th, 2025 5:44 AM
Author: Excitant Greedy Legend

(Nick Cassavetes)

(JT)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2E#48969853)



Reply Favorite

Date: May 27th, 2025 12:19 PM
Author: big den gaping

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=2E#48964843)



Reply Favorite

Date: May 27th, 2025 12:22 PM
Author: curious startling principal's office travel guidebook

How to train your dragon

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2E#48964851)



Reply Favorite

Date: May 27th, 2025 12:23 PM
Author: Stirring salmon gay wizard hospital

social network.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2E#48964854)



Reply Favorite

Date: May 27th, 2025 12:44 PM
Author: adventurous stag film

Wolf of Wall Street

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2E#48964882)



Reply Favorite

Date: May 27th, 2025 1:23 PM
Author: vigorous fiercely-loyal menage



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2E#48965026)



Reply Favorite

Date: May 27th, 2025 1:24 PM
Author: Hairraiser toilet seat deer antler



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2E#48965028)



Reply Favorite

Date: May 27th, 2025 9:58 PM
Author: big den gaping

Mostly an 80s movie though.

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



Reply Favorite

Date: May 27th, 2025 12:45 PM
Author: Laughsome Athletic Conference

Speed

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2E#48964883)



Reply Favorite

Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: big den gaping

I don’t think 1994’s Speed meets one of OP’s criteria.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2E#48966424)



Reply Favorite

Date: May 27th, 2025 1:24 PM
Author: Hairraiser toilet seat deer antler

Autoadmit.com

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2E#48965030)



Reply Favorite

Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: curious startling principal's office travel guidebook

Nigger Feet

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2E#48966411)



Reply Favorite

Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: Primrose regret

"period" is a gross word.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2E#48966412)



Reply Favorite

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

The Diaper

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2E#48966413)



Reply Favorite

Date: May 27th, 2025 10:39 PM
Author: Hairraiser toilet seat deer antler



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2E#48966509)



Reply Favorite

Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: big den gaping

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=2E#48966422)



Reply Favorite

Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: doobsian pervert



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2E#48966425)



Reply Favorite

Date: May 27th, 2025 11:08 PM
Author: Hairraiser toilet seat deer antler



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2E#48966580)



Reply Favorite

Date: May 28th, 2025 9:44 AM
Author: vigorous fiercely-loyal menage



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2E#48967108)



Reply Favorite

Date: May 28th, 2025 9:49 AM
Author: Hairraiser toilet seat deer antler



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2E#48967120)



Reply Favorite

Date: May 27th, 2025 10:18 PM
Author: Soul-stirring godawful fanboi indirect expression

The Queen (2006)

The Fighter (2010)

Erin Brocovich (2000)

I, Tonya (2017)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2E#48966468)



Reply Favorite

Date: May 28th, 2025 6:50 AM
Author: big den gaping

Thanks for asking Chat to give you answers

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2E#48966869)



Reply Favorite

Date: May 27th, 2025 11:03 PM
Author: Elite bossy candlestick maker

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2E#48966568)



Reply Favorite

Date: May 28th, 2025 6:52 AM
Author: big den gaping

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=2E#48966871)



Reply Favorite

Date: May 28th, 2025 6:54 AM
Author: big den gaping

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=2E#48966875)



Reply Favorite

Date: May 28th, 2025 7:05 AM
Author: blue sadistic lodge

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=2E#48966880)



Reply Favorite

Date: May 28th, 2025 9:43 AM
Author: big den gaping

Good one

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2E#48967107)



Reply Favorite

Date: May 28th, 2025 9:52 AM
Author: Beady-eyed black woman

lilo and stitch for the same reason

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2E#48967127)



Reply Favorite

Date: May 28th, 2025 9:55 AM
Author: Hairraiser toilet seat deer antler



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2E#48967133)



Reply Favorite

Date: June 7th, 2025 4:43 AM
Author: passionate sepia orchestra pit sweet tailpipe



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2E#48994103)



Reply Favorite

Date: June 14th, 2025 10:02 AM
Author: big den gaping

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2E#49014596)



Reply Favorite

Date: May 28th, 2025 9:59 AM
Author: Laughsome Athletic Conference

Road Trip

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2E#48967148)



Reply Favorite

Date: May 28th, 2025 10:04 AM
Author: Ultramarine public bath keepsake machete

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=2E#48967167)



Reply Favorite

Date: May 28th, 2025 10:14 AM
Author: Hairraiser toilet seat deer antler



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2E#48967199)



Reply Favorite

Date: May 28th, 2025 10:10 AM
Author: Bespoke feces trailer park

Pain & Gain

Mid90s

The Informant!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2E#48967189)



Reply Favorite

Date: May 29th, 2025 4:23 AM
Author: Useless honey-headed hell juggernaut

Pain & Gain is probably the best answer ITT

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2E#48969811)



Reply Favorite

Date: May 29th, 2025 7:11 AM
Author: Bespoke feces trailer park

Im a Curator

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2E#48969916)



Reply Favorite

Date: May 28th, 2025 10:35 AM
Author: Lavender Insecure Lay Bbw

Three Kings

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2E#48967282)



Reply Favorite

Date: May 28th, 2025 10:38 AM
Author: Bespoke feces trailer park

1999

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2E#48967300)



Reply Favorite

Date: May 28th, 2025 10:44 AM
Author: razzmatazz bronze set

One Day (2011)

Love and Other Drugs (2010)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2E#48967320)



Reply Favorite

Date: May 28th, 2025 8:48 PM
Author: Pearl Elastic Band Giraffe

Black Hawk Down

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2E#48969241)



Reply Favorite

Date: May 29th, 2025 5:13 AM
Author: scarlet sexy school cafeteria

this

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2E#48969840)



Reply Favorite

Date: May 29th, 2025 7:49 AM
Author: big den gaping

Lot of nostalgia for 1993 Somalia

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



Reply Favorite

Date: May 29th, 2025 8:44 AM
Author: Costumed queen of the night

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=2E#48970015)



Reply Favorite

Date: May 28th, 2025 8:54 PM
Author: Ivory apoplectic mad-dog skullcap

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

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



Reply Favorite

Date: May 29th, 2025 4:08 AM
Author: big den gaping

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2E#48969800)



Reply Favorite

Date: May 29th, 2025 5:14 AM
Author: scarlet sexy school cafeteria

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=2E#48969841)



Reply Favorite

Date: May 29th, 2025 6:44 AM
Author: Laughsome Athletic Conference

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=2E#48969890)



Reply Favorite

Date: May 29th, 2025 6:44 AM
Author: scarlet sexy school cafeteria

tyvmft

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2E#48969893)



Reply Favorite

Date: May 29th, 2025 5:25 AM
Author: Mahogany senate

The Creek, the in-universe remake of Season 1 of Dawson's Creek.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2E#48969850)



Reply Favorite

Date: June 3rd, 2025 1:22 AM
Author: Awkward flirting base weed whacker

Harry Potter

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2E#48982501)



Reply Favorite

Date: June 3rd, 2025 3:07 AM
Author: self-centered tripping church building filthpig

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=2E#48982587)



Reply Favorite

Date: June 3rd, 2025 10:09 AM
Author: big den gaping

Good one

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2E#48983011)



Reply Favorite

Date: June 3rd, 2025 11:41 AM
Author: Useless honey-headed hell juggernaut



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2E#48983314)



Reply Favorite

Date: June 7th, 2025 4:39 AM
Author: ungodly galvanic water buffalo church

tv show but derry girls.

wife insisted i watch it. i thought it would suck but it’s 180

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2E#48994100)



Reply Favorite

Date: June 8th, 2025 8:34 PM
Author: Awkward flirting base weed whacker

It’s criminally underrated

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2E#48997950)



Reply Favorite

Date: June 9th, 2025 11:12 AM
Author: ungodly galvanic water buffalo church



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2E#48999250)