Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan

    Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
    2006

    Synopsis

    Kazakh journalist Borat Sagdiyev travels to America to make a documentary. As he zigzags across the nation, Borat meets real people in real situations with hysterical consequences. His backwards behavior generates strong reactions around him exposing prejudices and hypocrisies in American culture.

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    Cast

    • Sacha Baron CohenBorat Sagdiyev
    • Ken DavitianAzamat Bagatov
    • LuenellLuenell
    • Pamela AndersonPamela Anderson
    • Bob BarrBob Barr
    • Alan KeyesAlan Keyes
    • Carole De SaramCarole De Saram
    • Mitchell FalkPrime Minister of Kazakhstan
    • David CorcoranDavid Corcoran (uncredited)
    • Andre Darnell MyersPride Dancer (uncredited)

    Recommendations

    • 100

      Rolling Stone

      You won't know what outrageous fun is until you see Borat. High-five!
    • 100

      Empire

      Absurd, outrageous, gross, disturbing, insightful, and so funny it’ll burst half the blood vessels in your face.
    • 91

      Entertainment Weekly

      When Baron Cohen works without a net, he flies.
    • 90

      Variety

      Uproariously funny mockumentary.
    • 90

      Village Voice

      Indeed, the man who invented Borat is a masterful improviser, brilliant comedian, courageous political satirist, and genuinely experimental film artist. Borat makes you laugh but Baron Cohen forces you to think.
    • 89

      Austin Chronicle

      This feature-length expansion of Cohen's deliciously ridiculous character accomplishes what decades of Soviet propaganda failed to do: It points out and underscores issues of race, religious intolerance, classism, and all manner of very American social ills by giving the culprits just enough rope to hang themselves by their own petards (and then some).
    • 80

      The Hollywood Reporter

      The weapon wielded by Cohen and Charles is crudeness. People today, especially those in public life, can disguise prejudice in coded language and soft tones. Bigotry is ever so polite now. So the filmmakers mean to drag the beast out into the sunlight of brilliant satire and let everyone see the rotting, stinking, foul thing for what it is. When you laugh at something that is bad, it loses much of its power.
    • 80

      The New Yorker

      It is equipped, like an F-15 Eagle, to engage multiple targets at once.

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