The most "year the movie came out" thing
Redford’s clothes, computer dating, answering machines, car phones, and the film’s Bay Area setting evoke 1992.
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- Redford’s light-wash straight-leg jeans are nominated.
- His baseball jacket is nominated and compared with The Natural; the claim that it is the exact same jacket is disputed.
- Mary McDonnell’s feathered hair is nominated.
- The team affording an Oakland theater and finding easy street parking feel specific to the earlier Bay Area.
- Hacker graphics and manipulating a computer-dating service are nominated.
- The assumption that computer dating could not produce a bad match is challenged.
- An answering machine hiding place and a car-phone plot point are nominated.
- Siskel billing Timothy Busfield ahead of other stars is selected as a striking sign of thirtysomething’s contemporary prominence.
- The ending’s choice of charities for the redistributed money feels characteristic of 1992.