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

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Wonderful hall
  05/27/25
Big Lebowski almost qualifies, released in 1998 but set in 1...
Thirsty multi-colored chapel marketing idea
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Who even watches these anymore?
flesh crotch
  05/27/25
I still watch Film
Brass stead
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blathering appetizing regret crackhouse
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Wonderful hall
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but yet you know nothing of it
olive startled degenerate
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Sir, I attended the Werner Herzog Film Seminar, pretty sure ...
Brass stead
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mean girls was released in 2004 but feels older imo
Startling arousing menage
  05/27/25
True Detective season one
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Best answer so far
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Soul-stirring spot philosopher-king
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blathering appetizing regret crackhouse
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Charcoal excitant windowlicker bawdyhouse
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The segways are the second biggest unresolved mystery after ...
Wonderful hall
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Narrow-minded becky
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Alpha Dog pops into mind first
shaky infuriating people who are hurt office
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(Nick Cassavetes) (JT)
know-it-all field legend
  05/29/25
There are not a lot - certainly no great films. Add The F...
Wonderful hall
  05/27/25
How to train your dragon
flesh crotch
  05/27/25
social network.
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Wolf of Wall Street
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Charcoal excitant windowlicker bawdyhouse
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Mostly an 80s movie though.
Wonderful hall
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Speed
Overrated library
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I don’t think 1994’s Speed meets one of OP&rsquo...
Wonderful hall
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Nigger Feet
flesh crotch
  05/27/25
"period" is a gross word.
rebellious kitty cat
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The Diaper
blathering appetizing regret crackhouse
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Charcoal excitant windowlicker bawdyhouse
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I think this has to do with Klosterman’s theory about ...
Wonderful hall
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blathering appetizing regret crackhouse
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The Queen (2006) The Fighter (2010) Erin Brocovich (2000) ...
Mauve Big-titted Stag Film
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Thanks for asking Chat to give you answers
Wonderful hall
  05/28/25
Doesn't qualify with your parameters but Clerks is classic 9...
stimulating senate
  05/27/25
Yes, but not a period piece. Lots of movies reflect their t...
Wonderful hall
  05/28/25
I think Superbad is set in the 2000s but it has a 90s aesthe...
Wonderful hall
  05/28/25
Same for Napoleon dynamite Technically set in 2003 but ru...
Startling arousing menage
  05/28/25
Good one
Wonderful hall
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lilo and stitch for the same reason
Sticky resort
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Charcoal excitant windowlicker bawdyhouse
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doobsian azure nursing home alpha
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Those tankard bracelets and Deb’s hair are incredibly ...
Wonderful hall
  06/14/25
Road Trip
Overrated library
  05/28/25
this is difficult imo because 9/11 really wiped clean our me...
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Charcoal excitant windowlicker bawdyhouse
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Pain & Gain Mid90s The Informant!
Indigo multi-billionaire lodge
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Pain & Gain is probably the best answer ITT
Lavender heaven mood
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Im a Curator
Indigo multi-billionaire lodge
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Three Kings
Narrow-minded becky
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1999
Indigo multi-billionaire lodge
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One Day (2011) Love and Other Drugs (2010)
sickened mahogany base nowag
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Black Hawk Down
green adventurous step-uncle's house
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this
primrose station
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Lot of nostalgia for 1993 Somalia
Wonderful hall
  05/29/25
I remember playing netdoom in an internet cafe in Berbera ar...
Brass stead
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the belgian crime drama 'Maldoror' about the marc dutroux ca...
khaki church building chad
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I feel like that’s too well known to even bother discu...
Wonderful hall
  05/29/25
Is The Departed set in the 1990s? Seemed to be based on the ...
primrose station
  05/29/25
No. They were clearly using early 2000s era phones and using...
Overrated library
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tyvmft
primrose station
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The Creek, the in-universe remake of Season 1 of Dawson's Cr...
Racy national security agency
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Harry Potter
Bull headed buff school cafeteria
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The OJ Simpson miniseries that was on FX a few years ago - t...
Cruel-hearted Orchid Hospital
  06/03/25
Good one
Wonderful hall
  06/03/25
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Lavender heaven mood
  06/03/25
tv show but derry girls. wife insisted i watch it. i tho...
Wine spectacular site
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It’s criminally underrated
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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:15 AM
Author: Wonderful hall



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:30 AM
Author: Thirsty multi-colored chapel marketing idea

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: flesh crotch

Who even watches these anymore?

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:31 AM
Author: Brass stead

I still watch Film

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: blathering appetizing regret crackhouse



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: Wonderful hall



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:29 PM
Author: olive startled degenerate

but yet you know nothing of it

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:33 AM
Author: Brass stead

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: Startling arousing menage

mean girls was released in 2004 but feels older imo

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:34 AM
Author: cracking potus round eye

True Detective season one



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:22 PM
Author: Charcoal excitant windowlicker bawdyhouse



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:02 PM
Author: Wonderful hall

Best answer so far

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:48 AM
Author: primrose station



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:23 PM
Author: Soul-stirring spot philosopher-king



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:28 PM
Author: blathering appetizing regret crackhouse

tp

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:39 PM
Author: Charcoal excitant windowlicker bawdyhouse



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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:52 AM
Author: Wonderful hall

The segways are the second biggest unresolved mystery after the lawnmower

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:34 AM
Author: Narrow-minded becky



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:38 AM
Author: shaky infuriating people who are hurt office

Alpha Dog pops into mind first

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:44 AM
Author: know-it-all field legend

(Nick Cassavetes)

(JT)

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



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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:19 PM
Author: Wonderful hall

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: flesh crotch

How to train your dragon

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:23 PM
Author: Contagious Water Buffalo Voyeur

social network.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:44 PM
Author: Slate Volcanic Crater

Wolf of Wall Street

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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:23 PM
Author: twisted curious factory reset button goyim



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:24 PM
Author: Charcoal excitant windowlicker bawdyhouse



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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:58 PM
Author: Wonderful hall

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: Overrated library

Speed

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: Wonderful hall

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: Charcoal excitant windowlicker bawdyhouse

Autoadmit.com

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: flesh crotch

Nigger Feet

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: rebellious kitty cat

"period" is a gross word.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: blathering appetizing regret crackhouse

The Diaper

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:39 PM
Author: Charcoal excitant windowlicker bawdyhouse



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: Wonderful hall

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: blathering appetizing regret crackhouse



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:08 PM
Author: Charcoal excitant windowlicker bawdyhouse



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:44 AM
Author: twisted curious factory reset button goyim



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:49 AM
Author: Charcoal excitant windowlicker bawdyhouse



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:18 PM
Author: Mauve Big-titted Stag Film

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: Wonderful hall

Thanks for asking Chat to give you answers

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:03 PM
Author: stimulating senate

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: Wonderful hall

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: Wonderful hall

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: Startling arousing menage

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: Wonderful hall

Good one

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



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:52 AM
Author: Sticky resort

lilo and stitch for the same reason

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:55 AM
Author: Charcoal excitant windowlicker bawdyhouse



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Date: June 7th, 2025 4:43 AM
Author: doobsian azure nursing home alpha



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Date: June 14th, 2025 10:02 AM
Author: Wonderful hall

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: Overrated library

Road Trip

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:04 AM
Author: godawful snowy blood rage ticket booth

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: Charcoal excitant windowlicker bawdyhouse



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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:10 AM
Author: Indigo multi-billionaire lodge

Pain & Gain

Mid90s

The Informant!

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Date: May 29th, 2025 4:23 AM
Author: Lavender heaven mood

Pain & Gain is probably the best answer ITT

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



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Date: May 29th, 2025 7:11 AM
Author: Indigo multi-billionaire lodge

Im a Curator

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:35 AM
Author: Narrow-minded becky

Three Kings

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:38 AM
Author: Indigo multi-billionaire lodge

1999

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:44 AM
Author: sickened mahogany base nowag

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: green adventurous step-uncle's house

Black Hawk Down

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:13 AM
Author: primrose station

this

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Date: May 29th, 2025 7:49 AM
Author: Wonderful hall

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: Brass stead

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: khaki church building chad

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: Wonderful hall

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: primrose station

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: Overrated library

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: primrose station

tyvmft

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:25 AM
Author: Racy national security agency

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: Bull headed buff school cafeteria

Harry Potter

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Date: June 3rd, 2025 3:07 AM
Author: Cruel-hearted Orchid Hospital

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: Wonderful hall

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: Lavender heaven mood



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Date: June 7th, 2025 4:39 AM
Author: Wine spectacular site

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=2#48994100)



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Date: June 8th, 2025 8:34 PM
Author: Bull headed buff school cafeteria

It’s criminally underrated

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



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Date: June 9th, 2025 11:12 AM
Author: Wine spectacular site



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