Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006)
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91% of critics liked it
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76% of users liked it
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Master of disguise Sacha Baron Cohen hits the road to explore America as the crude Kazakstani reporter Borat in a feature mockumentary that brings one of the Da Ali G Show star's most popular characters to life on the big screen. Sent by the Kazakh Ministry of Information to gain a better… More Master of disguise Sacha Baron Cohen hits the road to explore America as the crude Kazakstani reporter Borat in a feature mockumentary that brings one of the Da Ali G Show star's most popular characters to life on the big screen. Sent by the Kazakh Ministry of Information to gain a better understanding of American culture and bring his findings back home, Borat and faithful producer Azamat (Ken Davitian) set their sights in New York City. When the citizens and interview subjects of the Big Apple seem less than receptive to Borat's distinctively unrestrained approach and the curious Kazakh television personality stumbles across an episode of Baywatch while channel-surfing in his hotel room, he becomes instantly smitten with screen siren Pamela Anderson. Now confident that the only way to discover the true essence of America is to travel to California and make the bikini-clad beauty his bride, Borat purchases a ramshackle ice-cream truck in which he and Azamat will make their way across the Great Plains and on to the sunny West Coast -- all the while coming into contact with a wide variety of "typical" Americans. Within this loose, scripted framework, Borat engages in his usual misbehavior with unsuspecting strangers, from accidentally releasing a chicken from his suitcase on a New York subway ride to a formal interview with Alan Keyes. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
- Directed By
- Larry Charles
- Genres
- Comedy
- In Theaters
- Aug 4, 2006 Wide
- On DVD
- Mar 6, 2007
- Studio
- 20th Century Fox
Critic Reviews
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David Ansen, Newsweek
The backlash just proves how deep a nerve the faux Kazakh journalist has hit.
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Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Borat is a serious work of social criticism. But it's also the funniest movie I've ever seen.
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Andrew Sarris, New York Observer
The theory of comedy here is that you can get away with almost anything if you manage to make your target audience feel superior to the human beings being mocked on the screen.
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Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper
I did find this to be one of the more inventive, aggressively offensive and insanely tasteless comedies in many a year. And yeah, that's a thumbs-up.
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Tom Charity, CNN.com
Borat is so gut-bustingly funny it should carry a health warning.
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Cast
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Sacha Baron Cohen
as Borat Sagdiyev
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Ken Davitian
as Azamat Bagatov
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Jane Sanguinetti Luenell
as Luenell
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Pat Haggerty
as Pat Haggerty
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Alan Keyes
as Alan Keyes
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Pamela Anderson
as Pamela Anderson
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Chester the Chimp
as Bear
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Charlie & Sonia
as Bear
- Kenneth Davitian
- Alexandra Paul
- Daniel Castro
- Luenell



