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

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dun locale crotch
  05/27/25
Big Lebowski almost qualifies, released in 1998 but set in 1...
nudist tanning salon
  05/27/25
Who even watches these anymore?
Vengeful pistol half-breed
  05/27/25
I still watch Film
Racy sienna potus
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transparent philosopher-king
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dun locale crotch
  05/27/25
but yet you know nothing of it
odious chestnut sandwich rehab
  05/27/25
Sir, I attended the Werner Herzog Film Seminar, pretty sure ...
Racy sienna potus
  05/28/25
mean girls was released in 2004 but feels older imo
Cowardly ocher ticket booth coldplay fan
  05/27/25
True Detective season one
Razzle twinkling theater
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Concupiscible Step-uncle's House
  05/27/25
Best answer so far
dun locale crotch
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pea-brained talented chad
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tp
transparent philosopher-king
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Concupiscible Step-uncle's House
  05/27/25
The segways are the second biggest unresolved mystery after ...
dun locale crotch
  05/28/25
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passionate clear cruise ship mother
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Alpha Dog pops into mind first
Fiercely-loyal church building
  05/27/25
(Nick Cassavetes) (JT)
180 dead blood rage degenerate
  05/29/25
There are not a lot - certainly no great films. Add The F...
dun locale crotch
  05/27/25
How to train your dragon
Vengeful pistol half-breed
  05/27/25
social network.
Aphrodisiac trump supporter
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Wolf of Wall Street
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Concupiscible Step-uncle's House
  05/27/25
Mostly an 80s movie though.
dun locale crotch
  05/27/25
Speed
hairraiser iridescent school boltzmann
  05/27/25
I don’t think 1994’s Speed meets one of OP&rsquo...
dun locale crotch
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Concupiscible Step-uncle's House
  05/27/25
Nigger Feet
Vengeful pistol half-breed
  05/27/25
"period" is a gross word.
lilac bull headed really tough guy state
  05/27/25
The Diaper
transparent philosopher-king
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Concupiscible Step-uncle's House
  05/27/25
I think this has to do with Klosterman’s theory about ...
dun locale crotch
  05/27/25
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transparent philosopher-king
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Concupiscible Step-uncle's House
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The Queen (2006) The Fighter (2010) Erin Brocovich (2000) ...
Bronze Stead
  05/27/25
Thanks for asking Chat to give you answers
dun locale crotch
  05/28/25
Doesn't qualify with your parameters but Clerks is classic 9...
Lascivious Alcoholic Kitchen Mexican
  05/27/25
Yes, but not a period piece. Lots of movies reflect their t...
dun locale crotch
  05/28/25
I think Superbad is set in the 2000s but it has a 90s aesthe...
dun locale crotch
  05/28/25
Same for Napoleon dynamite Technically set in 2003 but ru...
Cowardly ocher ticket booth coldplay fan
  05/28/25
Good one
dun locale crotch
  05/28/25
lilo and stitch for the same reason
Histrionic Puce Office
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Concupiscible Step-uncle's House
  05/28/25
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shimmering fragrant forum
  06/07/25
Those tankard bracelets and Deb’s hair are incredibly ...
dun locale crotch
  06/14/25
Road Trip
hairraiser iridescent school boltzmann
  05/28/25
this is difficult imo because 9/11 really wiped clean our me...
Titillating Reading Party
  05/28/25
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Concupiscible Step-uncle's House
  05/28/25
Pain & Gain Mid90s The Informant!
angry gay wizard
  05/28/25
Pain & Gain is probably the best answer ITT
duck-like pozpig stage
  05/29/25
Im a Curator
angry gay wizard
  05/29/25
Three Kings
passionate clear cruise ship mother
  05/28/25
1999
angry gay wizard
  05/28/25
One Day (2011) Love and Other Drugs (2010)
learning disabled jewess
  05/28/25
Black Hawk Down
Garnet Factory Reset Button
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this
diverse heaven
  05/29/25
Lot of nostalgia for 1993 Somalia
dun locale crotch
  05/29/25
I remember playing netdoom in an internet cafe in Berbera ar...
Racy sienna potus
  05/29/25
the belgian crime drama 'Maldoror' about the marc dutroux ca...
rusted spectacular space queen of the night
  05/28/25
I feel like that’s too well known to even bother discu...
dun locale crotch
  05/29/25
Is The Departed set in the 1990s? Seemed to be based on the ...
diverse heaven
  05/29/25
No. They were clearly using early 2000s era phones and using...
hairraiser iridescent school boltzmann
  05/29/25
tyvmft
diverse heaven
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The Creek, the in-universe remake of Season 1 of Dawson's Cr...
Heady walnut point fortuitous meteor
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Harry Potter
Spruce Death Wish Athletic Conference
  06/03/25
The OJ Simpson miniseries that was on FX a few years ago - t...
Provocative Fat Ankles
  06/03/25
Good one
dun locale crotch
  06/03/25
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duck-like pozpig stage
  06/03/25
tv show but derry girls. wife insisted i watch it. i tho...
arousing free-loading trailer park
  06/07/25
It’s criminally underrated
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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:15 AM
Author: dun locale crotch



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:30 AM
Author: nudist tanning salon

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: Vengeful pistol half-breed

Who even watches these anymore?

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:31 AM
Author: Racy sienna potus

I still watch Film

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: transparent philosopher-king



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: dun locale crotch



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:29 PM
Author: odious chestnut sandwich rehab

but yet you know nothing of it

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:33 AM
Author: Racy sienna potus

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: Cowardly ocher ticket booth coldplay fan

mean girls was released in 2004 but feels older imo

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



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:34 AM
Author: Razzle twinkling theater

True Detective season one



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:22 PM
Author: Concupiscible Step-uncle's House



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:02 PM
Author: dun locale crotch

Best answer so far

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:48 AM
Author: diverse heaven



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:23 PM
Author: pea-brained talented chad



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:28 PM
Author: transparent philosopher-king

tp

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:39 PM
Author: Concupiscible Step-uncle's House



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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:52 AM
Author: dun locale crotch

The segways are the second biggest unresolved mystery after the lawnmower

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:34 AM
Author: passionate clear cruise ship mother



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:38 AM
Author: Fiercely-loyal church building

Alpha Dog pops into mind first

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:44 AM
Author: 180 dead blood rage degenerate

(Nick Cassavetes)

(JT)

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:19 PM
Author: dun locale crotch

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: Vengeful pistol half-breed

How to train your dragon

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:23 PM
Author: Aphrodisiac trump supporter

social network.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:44 PM
Author: very tactful hot bawdyhouse

Wolf of Wall Street

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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:23 PM
Author: galvanic alcoholic travel guidebook skinny woman



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:24 PM
Author: Concupiscible Step-uncle's House



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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:58 PM
Author: dun locale crotch

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: hairraiser iridescent school boltzmann

Speed

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: dun locale crotch

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: Concupiscible Step-uncle's House

Autoadmit.com

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: Vengeful pistol half-breed

Nigger Feet

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: lilac bull headed really tough guy state

"period" is a gross word.

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



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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: transparent philosopher-king

The Diaper

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:39 PM
Author: Concupiscible Step-uncle's House



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: dun locale crotch

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: transparent philosopher-king



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:08 PM
Author: Concupiscible Step-uncle's House



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:44 AM
Author: galvanic alcoholic travel guidebook skinny woman



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:49 AM
Author: Concupiscible Step-uncle's House



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:18 PM
Author: Bronze Stead

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: dun locale crotch

Thanks for asking Chat to give you answers

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:03 PM
Author: Lascivious Alcoholic Kitchen Mexican

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: dun locale crotch

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: dun locale crotch

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: Cowardly ocher ticket booth coldplay fan

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: dun locale crotch

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: Histrionic Puce Office

lilo and stitch for the same reason

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:55 AM
Author: Concupiscible Step-uncle's House



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Date: June 7th, 2025 4:43 AM
Author: shimmering fragrant forum



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Date: June 14th, 2025 10:02 AM
Author: dun locale crotch

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: hairraiser iridescent school boltzmann

Road Trip

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:04 AM
Author: Titillating Reading Party

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: Concupiscible Step-uncle's House



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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:10 AM
Author: angry gay wizard

Pain & Gain

Mid90s

The Informant!

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Date: May 29th, 2025 4:23 AM
Author: duck-like pozpig stage

Pain & Gain is probably the best answer ITT

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Date: May 29th, 2025 7:11 AM
Author: angry gay wizard

Im a Curator

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:35 AM
Author: passionate clear cruise ship mother

Three Kings

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:38 AM
Author: angry gay wizard

1999

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:44 AM
Author: learning disabled jewess

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: Garnet Factory Reset Button

Black Hawk Down

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:13 AM
Author: diverse heaven

this

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Date: May 29th, 2025 7:49 AM
Author: dun locale crotch

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: Racy sienna potus

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: rusted spectacular space queen of the night

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: dun locale crotch

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: diverse heaven

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: hairraiser iridescent school boltzmann

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: diverse heaven

tyvmft

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:25 AM
Author: Heady walnut point fortuitous meteor

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: Spruce Death Wish Athletic Conference

Harry Potter

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Date: June 3rd, 2025 3:07 AM
Author: Provocative Fat Ankles

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: dun locale crotch

Good one

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Date: June 3rd, 2025 11:41 AM
Author: duck-like pozpig stage



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Date: June 7th, 2025 4:39 AM
Author: arousing free-loading trailer park

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: Spruce Death Wish Athletic Conference

It’s criminally underrated

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Date: June 9th, 2025 11:12 AM
Author: arousing free-loading trailer park



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