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

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amber exciting really tough guy
  05/27/25
Big Lebowski almost qualifies, released in 1998 but set in 1...
Orange sticky juggernaut
  05/27/25
Who even watches these anymore?
Rose Gay Wizard
  05/27/25
I still watch Film
swashbuckling soggy stead depressive
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Bright Excitant Hominid Gas Station
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amber exciting really tough guy
  05/27/25
but yet you know nothing of it
effete elastic band
  05/27/25
Sir, I attended the Werner Herzog Film Seminar, pretty sure ...
swashbuckling soggy stead depressive
  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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Appetizing stag film
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Best answer so far
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Ocher narrow-minded pit dysfunction
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Bright Excitant Hominid Gas Station
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Appetizing stag film
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The segways are the second biggest unresolved mystery after ...
amber exciting really tough guy
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vibrant hell
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Alpha Dog pops into mind first
Impertinent messiness location
  05/27/25
(Nick Cassavetes) (JT)
Floppy ultramarine sound barrier people who are hurt
  05/29/25
There are not a lot - certainly no great films. Add The F...
amber exciting really tough guy
  05/27/25
How to train your dragon
Rose Gay Wizard
  05/27/25
social network.
rambunctious idiot
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Wolf of Wall Street
Curious Chocolate Electric Furnace
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Appetizing stag film
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Mostly an 80s movie though.
amber exciting really tough guy
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Speed
yellow school cafeteria gunner
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I don’t think 1994’s Speed meets one of OP&rsquo...
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Nigger Feet
Rose Gay Wizard
  05/27/25
"period" is a gross word.
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The Diaper
Bright Excitant Hominid Gas Station
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Appetizing stag film
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I think this has to do with Klosterman’s theory about ...
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Appetizing stag film
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The Queen (2006) The Fighter (2010) Erin Brocovich (2000) ...
Misunderstood Menage Boltzmann
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Thanks for asking Chat to give you answers
amber exciting really tough guy
  05/28/25
Doesn't qualify with your parameters but Clerks is classic 9...
Wonderful shrine hissy fit
  05/27/25
Yes, but not a period piece. Lots of movies reflect their t...
amber exciting really tough guy
  05/28/25
I think Superbad is set in the 2000s but it has a 90s aesthe...
amber exciting really tough guy
  05/28/25
Same for Napoleon dynamite Technically set in 2003 but ru...
Azure crusty address factory reset button
  05/28/25
Good one
amber exciting really tough guy
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lilo and stitch for the same reason
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Appetizing stag film
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Fear-inspiring shimmering lay pervert
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Those tankard bracelets and Deb’s hair are incredibly ...
amber exciting really tough guy
  06/14/25
Road Trip
yellow school cafeteria gunner
  05/28/25
this is difficult imo because 9/11 really wiped clean our me...
adulterous azn scourge upon the earth
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Appetizing stag film
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Pain & Gain Mid90s The Informant!
Vivacious self-centered shitlib senate
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Pain & Gain is probably the best answer ITT
Maroon Den Place Of Business
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Im a Curator
Vivacious self-centered shitlib senate
  05/29/25
Three Kings
vibrant hell
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1999
Vivacious self-centered shitlib senate
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One Day (2011) Love and Other Drugs (2010)
Henna swollen international law enforcement agency
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Black Hawk Down
Nudist ratface
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this
Bronze magical cuckoldry hairy legs
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Lot of nostalgia for 1993 Somalia
amber exciting really tough guy
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I remember playing netdoom in an internet cafe in Berbera ar...
swashbuckling soggy stead depressive
  05/29/25
the belgian crime drama 'Maldoror' about the marc dutroux ca...
Burgundy Electric Cruise Ship Water Buffalo
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I feel like that’s too well known to even bother discu...
amber exciting really tough guy
  05/29/25
Is The Departed set in the 1990s? Seemed to be based on the ...
Bronze magical cuckoldry hairy legs
  05/29/25
No. They were clearly using early 2000s era phones and using...
yellow school cafeteria gunner
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tyvmft
Bronze magical cuckoldry hairy legs
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The Creek, the in-universe remake of Season 1 of Dawson's Cr...
Multi-colored Ticket Booth
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Harry Potter
Talented Famous Landscape Painting Hall
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The OJ Simpson miniseries that was on FX a few years ago - t...
Hyperventilating Kitty Cat Plaza
  06/03/25
Good one
amber exciting really tough guy
  06/03/25
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Maroon Den Place Of Business
  06/03/25
tv show but derry girls. wife insisted i watch it. i tho...
Nighttime arousing goyim stage
  06/07/25
It’s criminally underrated
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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:15 AM
Author: amber exciting really tough guy



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:30 AM
Author: Orange sticky juggernaut

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

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:31 AM
Author: Rose Gay Wizard

Who even watches these anymore?

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:31 AM
Author: swashbuckling soggy stead depressive

I still watch Film

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:29 PM
Author: effete elastic band

but yet you know nothing of it

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:33 AM
Author: swashbuckling soggy stead depressive

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: Azure crusty address factory reset button

mean girls was released in 2004 but feels older imo

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:34 AM
Author: Racy Tanning Salon Roommate

True Detective season one



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:22 PM
Author: Appetizing stag film



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:02 PM
Author: amber exciting really tough guy

Best answer so far

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:48 AM
Author: Bronze magical cuckoldry hairy legs



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:23 PM
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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:28 PM
Author: Bright Excitant Hominid Gas Station

tp

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:39 PM
Author: Appetizing stag film



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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:52 AM
Author: amber exciting really tough guy

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: Impertinent messiness location

Alpha Dog pops into mind first

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:44 AM
Author: Floppy ultramarine sound barrier people who are hurt

(Nick Cassavetes)

(JT)

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:19 PM
Author: amber exciting really tough guy

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: Rose Gay Wizard

How to train your dragon

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:23 PM
Author: rambunctious idiot

social network.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:44 PM
Author: Curious Chocolate Electric Furnace

Wolf of Wall Street

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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:23 PM
Author: painfully honest iridescent party of the first part indirect expression



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:24 PM
Author: Appetizing stag film



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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:58 PM
Author: amber exciting really tough guy

Mostly an 80s movie though.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:45 PM
Author: yellow school cafeteria gunner

Speed

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: amber exciting really tough guy

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: Appetizing stag film

Autoadmit.com

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: Rose Gay Wizard

Nigger Feet

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: Glittery harsh nursing home keepsake machete

"period" is a gross word.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: Bright Excitant Hominid Gas Station

The Diaper

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:39 PM
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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: amber exciting really tough guy

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: Bright Excitant Hominid Gas Station



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:08 PM
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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:44 AM
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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:49 AM
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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:18 PM
Author: Misunderstood Menage Boltzmann

The Queen (2006)

The Fighter (2010)

Erin Brocovich (2000)

I, Tonya (2017)

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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:50 AM
Author: amber exciting really tough guy

Thanks for asking Chat to give you answers

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:03 PM
Author: Wonderful shrine hissy fit

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

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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:52 AM
Author: amber exciting really tough guy

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: amber exciting really tough guy

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: Azure crusty address factory reset button

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: amber exciting really tough guy

Good one

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:52 AM
Author: contagious demanding field

lilo and stitch for the same reason

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:55 AM
Author: Appetizing stag film



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Date: June 7th, 2025 4:43 AM
Author: Fear-inspiring shimmering lay pervert



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Date: June 14th, 2025 10:02 AM
Author: amber exciting really tough guy

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

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:59 AM
Author: yellow school cafeteria gunner

Road Trip

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:04 AM
Author: adulterous azn scourge upon the earth

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: Appetizing stag film



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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:10 AM
Author: Vivacious self-centered shitlib senate

Pain & Gain

Mid90s

The Informant!

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Date: May 29th, 2025 4:23 AM
Author: Maroon Den Place Of Business

Pain & Gain is probably the best answer ITT

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Date: May 29th, 2025 7:11 AM
Author: Vivacious self-centered shitlib senate

Im a Curator

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:35 AM
Author: vibrant hell

Three Kings

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:38 AM
Author: Vivacious self-centered shitlib senate

1999

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:44 AM
Author: Henna swollen international law enforcement agency

One Day (2011)

Love and Other Drugs (2010)

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Date: May 28th, 2025 8:48 PM
Author: Nudist ratface

Black Hawk Down

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:13 AM
Author: Bronze magical cuckoldry hairy legs

this

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Date: May 29th, 2025 7:49 AM
Author: amber exciting really tough guy

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: swashbuckling soggy stead depressive

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: Burgundy Electric Cruise Ship Water Buffalo

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: amber exciting really tough guy

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: Bronze magical cuckoldry hairy legs

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: yellow school cafeteria gunner

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: Bronze magical cuckoldry hairy legs

tyvmft

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:25 AM
Author: Multi-colored Ticket Booth

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: Talented Famous Landscape Painting Hall

Harry Potter

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Date: June 3rd, 2025 3:07 AM
Author: Hyperventilating Kitty Cat Plaza

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: amber exciting really tough guy

Good one

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Date: June 3rd, 2025 11:41 AM
Author: Maroon Den Place Of Business



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Date: June 7th, 2025 4:39 AM
Author: Nighttime arousing goyim stage

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: Talented Famous Landscape Painting Hall

It’s criminally underrated

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Date: June 9th, 2025 11:12 AM
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