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

2006 84 min ★ 6.8 Comedy

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 Cohen

Borat Sagdiyev

Ken Davitian

Azamat Bagatov

Luenell

Pamela Anderson

Bob Barr

Alan Keyes

Carole De Saram

Mitchell Falk

Prime Minister of Kazakhstan

Andre Darnell Myers

Pride Dancer (uncredited)

Jean-Pierre Parent

Kazakh Swimmer (uncredited)

Details

Director

Larry Charles

Screenplay

Sacha Baron Cohen

Tagline

"Come to Kazakhstan, it's nice!"

Status

Released

Original Language

EN

Budget

$18,000,000

Revenue

$262,552,893

Production

20th Century Fox, Everyman Pictures, Four by Two, Talkback, Channel 4 Television, Dune Entertainment, One America

Reviews

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CinemaSerf

February 9, 2025

★ 7/10

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 cir...