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

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Maroon Swashbuckling Candlestick Maker
  05/27/25
Big Lebowski almost qualifies, released in 1998 but set in 1...
lemon supple voyeur
  05/27/25
Who even watches these anymore?
Odious Trust Fund
  05/27/25
I still watch Film
wine boistinker
  05/27/25
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cerebral coldplay fan
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Maroon Swashbuckling Candlestick Maker
  05/27/25
but yet you know nothing of it
Transparent internal respiration public bath
  05/27/25
Sir, I attended the Werner Herzog Film Seminar, pretty sure ...
wine boistinker
  05/28/25
mean girls was released in 2004 but feels older imo
Thriller depressive native
  05/27/25
True Detective season one
Blue Location Cuck
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Floppy milky piazza background story
  05/27/25
Best answer so far
Maroon Swashbuckling Candlestick Maker
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Startled Faggot Firefighter
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Insane spruce old irish cottage crackhouse
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tp
cerebral coldplay fan
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Floppy milky piazza background story
  05/27/25
The segways are the second biggest unresolved mystery after ...
Maroon Swashbuckling Candlestick Maker
  05/28/25
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beady-eyed hateful institution hissy fit
  05/28/25
Alpha Dog pops into mind first
emerald beta nursing home hunting ground
  05/27/25
(Nick Cassavetes) (JT)
mildly autistic stage
  05/29/25
There are not a lot - certainly no great films. Add The F...
Maroon Swashbuckling Candlestick Maker
  05/27/25
How to train your dragon
Odious Trust Fund
  05/27/25
social network.
Slate dead shrine skinny woman
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Wolf of Wall Street
iridescent titillating sanctuary place of business
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stubborn cruise ship
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Floppy milky piazza background story
  05/27/25
Mostly an 80s movie though.
Maroon Swashbuckling Candlestick Maker
  05/27/25
Speed
Arousing Gaming Laptop Yarmulke
  05/27/25
I don’t think 1994’s Speed meets one of OP&rsquo...
Maroon Swashbuckling Candlestick Maker
  05/27/25
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Floppy milky piazza background story
  05/27/25
Nigger Feet
Odious Trust Fund
  05/27/25
"period" is a gross word.
Hairraiser idiot
  05/27/25
The Diaper
cerebral coldplay fan
  05/27/25
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Floppy milky piazza background story
  05/27/25
I think this has to do with Klosterman’s theory about ...
Maroon Swashbuckling Candlestick Maker
  05/27/25
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cerebral coldplay fan
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Floppy milky piazza background story
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stubborn cruise ship
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Floppy milky piazza background story
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The Queen (2006) The Fighter (2010) Erin Brocovich (2000) ...
Magical high-end roommate mad cow disease
  05/27/25
Thanks for asking Chat to give you answers
Maroon Swashbuckling Candlestick Maker
  05/28/25
Doesn't qualify with your parameters but Clerks is classic 9...
slimy vermilion people who are hurt
  05/27/25
Yes, but not a period piece. Lots of movies reflect their t...
Maroon Swashbuckling Candlestick Maker
  05/28/25
I think Superbad is set in the 2000s but it has a 90s aesthe...
Maroon Swashbuckling Candlestick Maker
  05/28/25
Same for Napoleon dynamite Technically set in 2003 but ru...
Thriller depressive native
  05/28/25
Good one
Maroon Swashbuckling Candlestick Maker
  05/28/25
lilo and stitch for the same reason
Mind-boggling athletic conference
  05/28/25
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Floppy milky piazza background story
  05/28/25
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cyberspace is cooked
  06/07/25
Road Trip
Arousing Gaming Laptop Yarmulke
  05/28/25
this is difficult imo because 9/11 really wiped clean our me...
laughsome lay sound barrier
  05/28/25
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Floppy milky piazza background story
  05/28/25
Pain & Gain Mid90s The Informant!
Vivacious Dilemma Famous Landscape Painting
  05/28/25
Pain & Gain is probably the best answer ITT
mahogany spot really tough guy
  05/29/25
Im a Curator
Vivacious Dilemma Famous Landscape Painting
  05/29/25
Three Kings
beady-eyed hateful institution hissy fit
  05/28/25
1999
Vivacious Dilemma Famous Landscape Painting
  05/28/25
One Day (2011) Love and Other Drugs (2010)
soul-stirring embarrassed to the bone business firm
  05/28/25
Black Hawk Down
multi-colored mustard antidepressant drug den
  05/28/25
this
Startled Faggot Firefighter
  05/29/25
Lot of nostalgia for 1993 Somalia
Maroon Swashbuckling Candlestick Maker
  05/29/25
I remember playing netdoom in an internet cafe in Berbera ar...
wine boistinker
  05/29/25
the belgian crime drama 'Maldoror' about the marc dutroux ca...
Lascivious ocher library
  05/28/25
I feel like that’s too well known to even bother discu...
Maroon Swashbuckling Candlestick Maker
  05/29/25
Is The Departed set in the 1990s? Seemed to be based on the ...
Startled Faggot Firefighter
  05/29/25
No. They were clearly using early 2000s era phones and using...
Arousing Gaming Laptop Yarmulke
  05/29/25
tyvmft
Startled Faggot Firefighter
  05/29/25
The Creek, the in-universe remake of Season 1 of Dawson's Cr...
Duck-like community account
  05/29/25
Harry Potter
Pumonymous
  06/03/25
The OJ Simpson miniseries that was on FX a few years ago - t...
Todd Driskill
  06/03/25
Good one
Pierbattista Pizzaballa
  06/03/25
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Trump Tariffs Can Do No Wrong
  06/03/25
tv show but derry girls. wife insisted i watch it. i tho...
Brother Peter Dimond
  06/07/25
It’s criminally underrated
Pumonymous
  06/08/25


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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:15 AM
Author: Maroon Swashbuckling Candlestick Maker



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:30 AM
Author: lemon supple voyeur

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: Odious Trust Fund

Who even watches these anymore?

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:31 AM
Author: wine boistinker

I still watch Film

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: cerebral coldplay fan



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: Maroon Swashbuckling Candlestick Maker



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:29 PM
Author: Transparent internal respiration public bath

but yet you know nothing of it

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:33 AM
Author: wine boistinker

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: Thriller depressive native

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: Blue Location Cuck

True Detective season one



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:22 PM
Author: Floppy milky piazza background story



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:02 PM
Author: Maroon Swashbuckling Candlestick Maker

Best answer so far

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



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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:48 AM
Author: Startled Faggot Firefighter



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:23 PM
Author: Insane spruce old irish cottage crackhouse



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:28 PM
Author: cerebral coldplay fan

tp

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:39 PM
Author: Floppy milky piazza background story



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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:52 AM
Author: Maroon Swashbuckling Candlestick Maker

The segways are the second biggest unresolved mystery after the lawnmower

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



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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:34 AM
Author: beady-eyed hateful institution hissy fit



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:38 AM
Author: emerald beta nursing home hunting ground

Alpha Dog pops into mind first

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:44 AM
Author: mildly autistic stage

(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: Maroon Swashbuckling Candlestick Maker

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: Odious Trust Fund

How to train your dragon

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



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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:23 PM
Author: Slate dead shrine skinny woman

social network.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:44 PM
Author: iridescent titillating sanctuary place of business

Wolf of Wall Street

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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:23 PM
Author: stubborn cruise ship



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:24 PM
Author: Floppy milky piazza background story



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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:58 PM
Author: Maroon Swashbuckling Candlestick Maker

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: Arousing Gaming Laptop Yarmulke

Speed

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: Maroon Swashbuckling Candlestick Maker

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: Floppy milky piazza background story

Autoadmit.com

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: Odious Trust Fund

Nigger Feet

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: Hairraiser idiot

"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: cerebral coldplay fan

The Diaper

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:39 PM
Author: Floppy milky piazza background story



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: Maroon Swashbuckling Candlestick Maker

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: cerebral coldplay fan



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:08 PM
Author: Floppy milky piazza background story



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:44 AM
Author: stubborn cruise ship



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:49 AM
Author: Floppy milky piazza background story



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:18 PM
Author: Magical high-end roommate mad cow disease

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: Maroon Swashbuckling Candlestick Maker

Thanks for asking Chat to give you answers

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



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:03 PM
Author: slimy vermilion people who are hurt

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: Maroon Swashbuckling Candlestick Maker

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: Maroon Swashbuckling Candlestick Maker

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: Thriller depressive native

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: Maroon Swashbuckling Candlestick Maker

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: Mind-boggling athletic conference

lilo and stitch for the same reason

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



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:55 AM
Author: Floppy milky piazza background story



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Date: June 7th, 2025 4:43 AM
Author: cyberspace is cooked



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:59 AM
Author: Arousing Gaming Laptop Yarmulke

Road Trip

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



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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:04 AM
Author: laughsome lay sound barrier

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: Floppy milky piazza background story



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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:10 AM
Author: Vivacious Dilemma Famous Landscape Painting

Pain & Gain

Mid90s

The Informant!

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



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Date: May 29th, 2025 4:23 AM
Author: mahogany spot really tough guy

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: Vivacious Dilemma Famous Landscape Painting

Im a Curator

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:35 AM
Author: beady-eyed hateful institution hissy fit

Three Kings

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:38 AM
Author: Vivacious Dilemma Famous Landscape Painting

1999

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:44 AM
Author: soul-stirring embarrassed to the bone business firm

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: multi-colored mustard antidepressant drug den

Black Hawk Down

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:13 AM
Author: Startled Faggot Firefighter

this

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Date: May 29th, 2025 7:49 AM
Author: Maroon Swashbuckling Candlestick Maker

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: wine boistinker

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: Lascivious ocher library

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: Maroon Swashbuckling Candlestick Maker

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: Startled Faggot Firefighter

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: Arousing Gaming Laptop Yarmulke

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: Startled Faggot Firefighter

tyvmft

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



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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:25 AM
Author: Duck-like community account

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: Pumonymous

Harry Potter

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Date: June 3rd, 2025 3:07 AM
Author: Todd Driskill

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: Pierbattista Pizzaballa

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: Trump Tariffs Can Do No Wrong (TDNW)



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Date: June 7th, 2025 4:39 AM
Author: Brother Peter Dimond

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: Pumonymous

It’s criminally underrated

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