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

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Adventurous painfully honest school cafeteria
  05/27/25
Big Lebowski almost qualifies, released in 1998 but set in 1...
Racy rambunctious mother
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Who even watches these anymore?
Spectacular deep water buffalo roast beef
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I still watch Film
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Adventurous painfully honest school cafeteria
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but yet you know nothing of it
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Sir, I attended the Werner Herzog Film Seminar, pretty sure ...
Lilac rehab
  05/28/25
mean girls was released in 2004 but feels older imo
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True Detective season one
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Best answer so far
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The segways are the second biggest unresolved mystery after ...
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Alpha Dog pops into mind first
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(Nick Cassavetes) (JT)
blathering gunner property
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There are not a lot - certainly no great films. Add The F...
Adventurous painfully honest school cafeteria
  05/27/25
How to train your dragon
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social network.
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Wolf of Wall Street
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Mostly an 80s movie though.
Adventurous painfully honest school cafeteria
  05/27/25
Speed
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I don’t think 1994’s Speed meets one of OP&rsquo...
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Nigger Feet
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"period" is a gross word.
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The Diaper
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I think this has to do with Klosterman’s theory about ...
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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
Adventurous painfully honest school cafeteria
  05/28/25
Doesn't qualify with your parameters but Clerks is classic 9...
stimulating pungent institution
  05/27/25
Yes, but not a period piece. Lots of movies reflect their t...
Adventurous painfully honest school cafeteria
  05/28/25
I think Superbad is set in the 2000s but it has a 90s aesthe...
Adventurous painfully honest school cafeteria
  05/28/25
Same for Napoleon dynamite Technically set in 2003 but ru...
Plum sound barrier hominid
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Good one
Adventurous painfully honest school cafeteria
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lilo and stitch for the same reason
Clear market
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Those tankard bracelets and Deb’s hair are incredibly ...
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Road Trip
tripping light hairy legs stage
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this is difficult imo because 9/11 really wiped clean our me...
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Pale hall
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Pain & Gain Mid90s The Informant!
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Pain & Gain is probably the best answer ITT
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Im a Curator
pontificating aromatic elastic band
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Three Kings
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1999
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One Day (2011) Love and Other Drugs (2010)
Supple Fantasy-prone Stead
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Black Hawk Down
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this
swashbuckling school
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Lot of nostalgia for 1993 Somalia
Adventurous painfully honest school cafeteria
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I remember playing netdoom in an internet cafe in Berbera ar...
Lilac rehab
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the belgian crime drama 'Maldoror' about the marc dutroux ca...
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I feel like that’s too well known to even bother discu...
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Is The Departed set in the 1990s? Seemed to be based on the ...
swashbuckling school
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No. They were clearly using early 2000s era phones and using...
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tyvmft
swashbuckling school
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The Creek, the in-universe remake of Season 1 of Dawson's Cr...
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Harry Potter
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The OJ Simpson miniseries that was on FX a few years ago - t...
Brindle stain
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Good one
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Confused chestnut garrison
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tv show but derry girls. wife insisted i watch it. i tho...
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  06/07/25
It’s criminally underrated
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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:15 AM
Author: Adventurous painfully honest school cafeteria



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:30 AM
Author: Racy rambunctious mother

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

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:31 AM
Author: Spectacular deep water buffalo roast beef

Who even watches these anymore?

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:31 AM
Author: Lilac rehab

I still watch Film

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: Frozen Principal's Office



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:29 PM
Author: Gay Box Office Tattoo

but yet you know nothing of it

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:33 AM
Author: Lilac rehab

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: Plum sound barrier hominid

mean girls was released in 2004 but feels older imo

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:34 AM
Author: fear-inspiring resort community account

True Detective season one



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:22 PM
Author: Pale hall



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:02 PM
Author: Adventurous painfully honest school cafeteria

Best answer so far

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:48 AM
Author: swashbuckling school



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:23 PM
Author: Dull cumskin orchestra pit



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:28 PM
Author: Frozen Principal's Office

tp

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:39 PM
Author: Pale hall



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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:52 AM
Author: Adventurous painfully honest school cafeteria

The segways are the second biggest unresolved mystery after the lawnmower

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:34 AM
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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:38 AM
Author: beta jew

Alpha Dog pops into mind first

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:44 AM
Author: blathering gunner property

(Nick Cassavetes)

(JT)

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:19 PM
Author: Adventurous painfully honest school cafeteria

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: Spectacular deep water buffalo roast beef

How to train your dragon

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:23 PM
Author: maize area

social network.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:44 PM
Author: Aphrodisiac center

Wolf of Wall Street

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



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:24 PM
Author: Pale hall



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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:58 PM
Author: Adventurous painfully honest school cafeteria

Mostly an 80s movie though.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:45 PM
Author: tripping light hairy legs stage

Speed

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: Adventurous painfully honest school cafeteria

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: Pale hall

Autoadmit.com

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: Spectacular deep water buffalo roast beef

Nigger Feet

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: Bateful Emerald Telephone Immigrant

"period" is a gross word.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: Frozen Principal's Office

The Diaper

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:39 PM
Author: Pale hall



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: Adventurous painfully honest school cafeteria

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: Frozen Principal's Office



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:08 PM
Author: Pale hall



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



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:49 AM
Author: Pale hall



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:18 PM
Author: rough-skinned boyish international law enforcement agency

The Queen (2006)

The Fighter (2010)

Erin Brocovich (2000)

I, Tonya (2017)

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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:50 AM
Author: Adventurous painfully honest school cafeteria

Thanks for asking Chat to give you answers

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

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

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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:52 AM
Author: Adventurous painfully honest school cafeteria

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: Adventurous painfully honest school cafeteria

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: Plum sound barrier hominid

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: Adventurous painfully honest school cafeteria

Good one

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:52 AM
Author: Clear market

lilo and stitch for the same reason

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:55 AM
Author: Pale hall



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Date: June 7th, 2025 4:43 AM
Author: electric coiffed cruise ship



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Date: June 14th, 2025 10:02 AM
Author: Adventurous painfully honest school cafeteria

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

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:59 AM
Author: tripping light hairy legs stage

Road Trip

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:04 AM
Author: low-t brunch

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: Pale hall



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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:10 AM
Author: pontificating aromatic elastic band

Pain & Gain

Mid90s

The Informant!

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Date: May 29th, 2025 4:23 AM
Author: Confused chestnut garrison

Pain & Gain is probably the best answer ITT

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Date: May 29th, 2025 7:11 AM
Author: pontificating aromatic elastic band

Im a Curator

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:35 AM
Author: Fuchsia Bearded Friendly Grandma Indian Lodge

Three Kings

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:38 AM
Author: pontificating aromatic elastic band

1999

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:44 AM
Author: Supple Fantasy-prone Stead

One Day (2011)

Love and Other Drugs (2010)

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Date: May 28th, 2025 8:48 PM
Author: thriller anal athletic conference messiness

Black Hawk Down

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:13 AM
Author: swashbuckling school

this

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Date: May 29th, 2025 7:49 AM
Author: Adventurous painfully honest school cafeteria

Lot of nostalgia for 1993 Somalia

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Date: May 29th, 2025 8:44 AM
Author: Lilac rehab

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: Mildly Autistic Plaza Police Squad

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: Adventurous painfully honest school cafeteria

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

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:14 AM
Author: swashbuckling school

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: tripping light hairy legs stage

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: swashbuckling school

tyvmft

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:25 AM
Author: sapphire spot incel

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: soul-stirring senate indirect expression

Harry Potter

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Date: June 3rd, 2025 3:07 AM
Author: Brindle stain

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: Adventurous painfully honest school cafeteria

Good one

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Date: June 3rd, 2025 11:41 AM
Author: Confused chestnut garrison



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Date: June 7th, 2025 4:39 AM
Author: flesh french pit

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: soul-stirring senate indirect expression

It’s criminally underrated

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Date: June 9th, 2025 11:12 AM
Author: flesh french pit



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