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Borat

Original title: Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
  • 2006
  • R
  • 1h 24m
IMDb RATING
7.3/10
419K
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POPULARITY
1,502
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Sacha Baron Cohen in Borat (2006)
Kazakh TV talking head Borat is dispatched to the United States to report on the greatest country in the world. With a documentary crew in tow, Borat becomes more interested in locating and marrying Pamela Anderson.
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Kazakh TV talking head Borat is dispatched to the United States to report on the greatest country in the world. With a documentary crew in tow, Borat becomes more interested in locating and ... Read allKazakh TV talking head Borat is dispatched to the United States to report on the greatest country in the world. With a documentary crew in tow, Borat becomes more interested in locating and marrying Pamela Anderson.Kazakh TV talking head Borat is dispatched to the United States to report on the greatest country in the world. With a documentary crew in tow, Borat becomes more interested in locating and marrying Pamela Anderson.

  • Director
    • Larry Charles
  • Writers
    • Sacha Baron Cohen
    • Anthony Hines
    • Peter Baynham
  • Stars
    • Sacha Baron Cohen
    • Ken Davitian
    • Luenell
  • See production, box office & company info
  • IMDb RATING
    7.3/10
    419K
    YOUR RATING
    POPULARITY
    1,502
    246
    • Director
      • Larry Charles
    • Writers
      • Sacha Baron Cohen
      • Anthony Hines
      • Peter Baynham
    • Stars
      • Sacha Baron Cohen
      • Ken Davitian
      • Luenell
    • 1.3KUser reviews
    • 241Critic reviews
    • 89Metascore
  • See more at IMDbPro
    • Nominated for 1 Oscar
      • 20 wins & 34 nominations total

    Videos10

    DVD Version
    Trailer 1:31
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    'Borat' Star Maria Bakalova Had No Idea What She Was Auditioning For
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    Borat Scene: Feminism
    Clip 0:56
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    Borat Scene: Antique Store
    Clip 0:57
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    Borat Scene: Not Joke
    Clip 0:56
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    Borat Scene: Vanilla Face
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    Borat Scene: Driving Instructor
    Clip 0:52
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    Borat Scene: She Is My Sister
    Clip 0:55
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    Borat Scene: Dinner Party
    Clip 0:53
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    The Rise of Sacha Baron Cohen
    Clip 4:00
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    Photos119

    Sacha Baron Cohen and Larry Walker in Borat (2006)
    Sacha Baron Cohen in Borat (2006)
    Sacha Baron Cohen in Borat (2006)
    Sacha Baron Cohen in Borat (2006)
    Sacha Baron Cohen, Ken Davitian, Chester, and Charlie in Borat (2006)
    Sacha Baron Cohen, Chester, and Charlie in Borat (2006)
    Sacha Baron Cohen in Borat (2006)
    Sacha Baron Cohen in Borat (2006)
    Sacha Baron Cohen in Borat (2006)
    Sacha Baron Cohen in Borat (2006)
    Sacha Baron Cohen and Ken Davitian in Borat (2006)
    Sacha Baron Cohen in Borat (2006)

    Top cast

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    Sacha Baron Cohen
    Sacha Baron Cohen
    • Borat
    Ken Davitian
    Ken Davitian
    • Azamat
    Luenell
    Luenell
    • Luenell
    Chester
    • Bear
    Charlie
    • Bear
    Ilham Aliyev
    Ilham Aliyev
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    • (uncredited)
    Pamela Anderson
    Pamela Anderson
    • Self - Autograph Signing
    • (uncredited)
    Bob Barr
    Bob Barr
    • Self - Former Georgia Congressman
    • (uncredited)
    Carole De Saram
    • Self - Feminist
    • (uncredited)
    Mitchell Falk
    • Prime Minister of Kazakhstan
    • (uncredited)
    Alan Keyes
    • Self - 2-Time Republican Presidential Candidate
    • (uncredited)
    Andre Myers
    Andre Myers
    • Pride Dancer
    • (uncredited)
    Jean-Pierre Parent
    Jean-Pierre Parent
    • Kazakh Swimmer
    • (uncredited)
    Chip Pickering
    • Self - U.S. Congressman
    • (uncredited)
    Bobby Rowe
    • Self - General Manager of Imperial Rodeo
    • (uncredited)
    James Smith
    • Self - Chief Justice of State Supreme Court
    • (uncredited)
    Larry Walker
    • Self - Antique Store Owner
    • (uncredited)
    Grace Welch
    • Self - Feminist
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Larry Charles
    • Writers
      • Sacha Baron Cohen(screenplay) (story) (based on a character created by)
      • Anthony Hines(screenplay) (story)
      • Peter Baynham(screenplay) (story)
    • All cast & crew
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    Storyline

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    Did you know

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    • Trivia
      The police were called on Sacha Baron Cohen ninety-two times during the production of this film.
    • Goofs
      When Borat gets out of the RV where he'd been drinking with the frat boys, it is a different RV than the one he originally got into.
    • Quotes

      Borat: You telling me the man who try to put a rubber fist in my anus was a homosexual?

    • Crazy credits
      "KAZAKH BOARD OF FILM CENSORS: This film is unsuitable for children under the age of 3"
    • Alternate versions
      For the film's US television premiere on USA Network in June 2009, the film is presented largely uncut -- including the infamous nude wrestling and chase between Borat and Azamat, which is censored with black bars -- but several of the harshest profanities and sexual terms are silenced and a label reading "CENZURAT" appears over mouths (and, where necessary, subtitles) in order to try and further hide which terms are being used.
    • Connections
      Featured in Friday Night with Jonathan Ross: Episode #11.8 (2006)
    • Soundtracks
      Chaje Shukarije
      (2001)

      Written and Performed by Esma Redzepova

      Courtesy of Times Square Records/World Connection Enterprises

    User reviews1.3K

    Review
    Review
    Featured review
    7/10
    America through the eyes of a Kazakh.
    This movie was probably most and the highest criticized from Kazahkstan itself. Unrigthfully so. The movie doesn't make fun of Kazahkstan, it makes fun of Americans, in a criticizing way. Kazahkstan is merely used as a platform to show the (of course exaggerated) contrasts between the advanced and 'civilized' America and the simplistic Kazakhstan and how a simplistic man, from such a simplistic place, such as Borat Sagdiyev (Sacha Baron Cohen) is capable of pinching right through the advanced and civilized Americans and puts his finger right on the spot. The movie is about Borat learning from America and Americans. for the benefits of his country Kazakhstan but the question raises; Shouldn't America and Americans also learn from simplistic countries such as Kazakhstan, for their own good and benefits?

    Just like in Michael Moore movies often is the case, Borat knows to put his finger on the right place and manages to show America how it really is. An uptight, patriotic, homophobic, God fearing, anti-social country, in which minorities still have a hard time and not all rights are considered equal to some. It's funny, in the interviews it often is not Borat who says the most offensive things, it are the interviewees who do so, such as the rodeo-guy and the frat boys.

    But no, the movie is not all criticism. For most part it's just a fun and often also hilarious people about making fun of ignorant people.

    In all honesty it's hard to tell how much of the movie was actually improvised and how much of it was real. Obviously some sequences were scripted such as all the scene's in Kazakhstan and some other sequences will make you really doubt. Some of obviously planned the camera-positions are often too coincidental and also the fact that the movie had an actual professional director attached to it, makes you really wonder. It also is hard to imaging that all those people actually took this silly talking and looking character so seriously as they did in this movie all the time. When a person who wears his underwear above his pants and is talking slang is entering your hotel with a camera-crew following him, wouldn't you crack up, realizing that this just can't be for real? The movie is also edited in such a way that the emotions and reactions get exaggerated. It's also are the reasons why you can't really call this movie a fake documentary or mockumentary.

    What I loved about the "Da Ali G Show", in which Borat often made an appearance, was that it was improvised, real, often had no point and was all about the responses of the other person on the Sacha Baron Cohen characters. It was fun to see the peoples reactions and how they did respond to the character and its outrageous and often also offensive questions. This movie is overwritten in my opinion. The movie has a main plot line in in, in which Borat falls for non other than Pamela Anderson and makes it his personal mission to find her and marry her. In my opinion the improvising way of traveling through the USA and meeting and interviewing people would had worked way better, in both terms of criticism and humor. Now some parts in the movie feel planned and acted, which is definitely not Borat's strongest point. It also again raises the question of how much of the movie is actually improvised and how much of it was planned, though I definitely believe that most of the interviews and Borat with other people were for real. Ironic, since it was the screenplay that was actually being nominated for an Academy Award.

    But all this criticism aside, this is a very fun and also often hilarious movie to watch. Some of the situations Borat gets himself into are priceless and the reactions from the ignorant persons are even more hilarious. They often don't know how to cope with this odd talking and looking character from the far away and insignificant country of Kazakhstan.

    There are a couple of especially memorable sequences, such as when Borat and Azamat wrestle naked in their hotel room, after Azamat's 'hand-feast' and then start running naked through the hotel, elevators and eventually ending up wrestling naked in a convention room with hundreds of people in it. There are a couple of more hilarious and memorable sequences but no one really matches up to that moment, that totally catches you completely off guard.

    It's all fast paced, which makes sure that you'll probably laugh your way non-stop trough this movie.

    A perfectly fun and amusing movie that also has some striking criticism, that could had used some less story and perhaps should had been more like the show.

    7/10

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    FAQ6

    • How much of this film is scripted, how much is unscripted?
    • Was Pamela Anderson acting or was she one of Borat's unsuspecting victims?
    • What language was Borat really speaking when supposedly speaking Kazakh?

    Details

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    • Release date
      • November 3, 2006 (United States)
    • Countries of origin
      • United States
      • United Kingdom
    • Official site
      • Official site
    • Languages
      • English
      • Romanian
      • Hebrew
      • Polish
      • Armenian
    • Also known as
      • Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
    • Filming locations
      • Glod, Romania(Kazakhstan)
    • Production companies
      • Everyman Pictures
      • Dune Entertainment
      • Major Studio Partners
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • $18,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $128,505,958
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $26,455,463
      • Nov 5, 2006
    • Gross worldwide
      • $262,552,893
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    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 24 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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