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

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November 1, 2006 (GB) • Comedy • 84m

Overview

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.

Director

Larry Charles

Writers

Sacha Baron Cohen, Dan Mazer, Anthony Hines, Peter Baynham, Sacha Baron Cohen, Todd Phillips, Peter Baynham, Anthony Hines

Top Billed

Sacha Baron Cohen

Keywords

journalist california prostitute rodeo kazakhstan demeanor course chicken driving school satire mockumentary social satire antisemitism bear reporter aftercreditsstinger duringcreditsstinger comedy amused

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Top Billed Cast

Sacha Baron Cohen

Borat

Ken Davitian

Azamat

Luenell

Alex Daniels

Naked Fight Coordinator

Jim Vickers

Kidnapping Consultant

Peewee Piemonte

Saftey

Michael Li

Action Team

Harry Wowchuk

Action Team

Nicole Randall

Action Team

Pamela Anderson

Pamela Anderson (uncredited)

Bob Barr

Bob Barr (uncredited)

Alan Keyes

Alan Keyes (uncredited)

Carole De Saram

Carole De Saram (uncredited)

Mitchell Falk

Prime Minister of Kazakhstan (uncredited)

Andre Darnell Myers

Pride Dancer (uncredited)

Jean-Pierre Parent

Kazakh Swimmer (uncredited)

Crew

Dan Mazer

Executive Producer

Erran Baron Cohen

Original Music Composer

Anthony Hardwick

Director of Photography

Sacha Baron Cohen

Producer

Jay Roach

Producer

Jon Klein

Boom Operator

Sacha Baron Cohen

Screenplay

Jason Alper

Costume Design

Dan Mazer

Screenplay

Monica Levinson

Executive Producer

Anthony Hines

Screenplay

Peter Baynham

Screenplay

David Maturana

Art Direction

Luke Geissbühler

Director of Photography

Larry Charles

Director

Craig Alpert

Editor

Richard Henderson

Music Editor

Michael Payne

Sound Effects Editor

Andrew DeCristofaro

Supervising Sound Editor

Brandon Proctor

Sound Re-Recording Mixer

Scott M. Davids

Visual Effects Supervisor

Kerry Carmean-Williams

Sound Effects Editor

Lora Hirschberg

Sound Re-Recording Mixer

David Esparza

Sound Effects Editor

James Thomas

Editor

Peter Teschner

Editor

Sacha Baron Cohen

Story

Todd Phillips

Story

Peter Baynham

Story

Anthony Hines

Story

Allison Jones

Casting

Scott Harber

Production Sound Mixer

David Siegel

Unit Production Manager

David Siegel

First Assistant Director

Collection

Borat Moviefilms Collection

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

Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan

Reviews

CinemaSerf

⭐ 7/10

February 9, 2025

If you are remotely politically correct then this isn’t for you. It plays crudely and entertainingly to just about every stereotype known to mankind and rather potently sends up the population of the United States. “Borat” is a local television presenter in Kazakhstan who has decided to go to the US in A and meet Pamela Anderson. Dragging his director “Azamat” (Ken Davitian) along, they take a circuitous route to New York and once he’s realised that the hotel elevator isn’t actually his room, they are on their way. He’s a friendly chap who wants to say hello, shake hands and kiss just about everyone he meets. Needless to say, this elicits a variety of unfriendly responses and so he buys an old ice cream van with his pal and decides to take a tour of the country ending up in California. Along the way he meets cowboys, evangelicals, gays, etiquette experts and even manages some naked wrestling, but will he meet and get his gal? It’s perhaps a little unfair to say this is anti-American specifically. I reckon if you travelled into the interior of many large countries where your mum, your dog and your canary might all the the same creature whilst “Duelling Banjos” is on repeat on the juke box, you’d get the same sort of insular responses, but somehow this seems exaggerated by some of the most ignorant and stupid people that he encounters en route. The condescension in which he’s viewed by some of the population, the rudeness and violence he encounters as well as the humorous hypocrisies don’t really show his hosts in a good light at any stage of his drive. Of course, he’s an obnoxious man whose anti-Semitic views, causal approach to violent sex and, indeed, his clumsy attempts at English all reinforce an Eastern European stereotype too, but that country had decades of Soviet occupation to blame. What’s the excuse of those in Texas whose intellect is only marginally greater than their cows. It’s excessive at times and the joke does start to wear a bit thin, but there’s something quite thought provoking about Sasha Baron Cohen’s character here that shines a critical light at jingoism and nationalism amusingly but poignantly. Perhaps he ought to get himself a job as a fact checker in the White House now?

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Status

Released

Original Language

Budget

$18,000,000

Revenue

$262,552,893

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

Sacha Baron Cohen, Dan Mazer, Anthony Hines, Peter Baynham, Sacha Baron Cohen, Todd Phillips, Peter Baynham, Anthony Hines

Where to watch

Top Billed Cast

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Collection

Borat Moviefilms Collection

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

Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan

Reviews

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