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

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  • Aspect Ratio:
    Widescreen
  • Rating:
     R — for pervasive strong crude and sexual content including graphic nudity, and language
  • Language:
      French, English, Russian, Spanish
  • Studio:
      20th Century Fox
  • UPC:
      024543419693
  • Year of Release:
      2006
  • Item Number:
      FXD041969
  • Release Date:
      02/02/2010
  • Genre:
     

    Comedy –

    Comedy of Manners –

    Mockumentary –

    Satire

  • Format:
     

    DVD

MOVIE DESCRIPTION:

    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

DVD FEATURES:
  • Region: 1
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 (Theatre Wide Screen)
  • Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Surround
  • Encoding: NTSC
  • Screen: Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV, Color
  • Subtitle: Spanish, English
  • Features:
    • Deleted scenes
    • Global P.R. tour
    • Music infomercial
AWARDS
  • Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
  •     Nominated Best Adapted Screenplay - 2006 (Anthony Hines, Sacha Baron Cohen, Todd Phillips, Dan Mazer, Peter Baynham)
  • American Film Institute
  •     Won Best Picture - 2006
  • Austin Film Critics
  •     Nominated Best Picture - 2006
  • Broadcast Film Critics Association
  •     Won Best Comedy Movie - 2006
  • Chicago Film Critics Association
  •     Won Most Promising Performer - 2006 (Sacha Baron Cohen)
  • Hollywood Foreign Press Association
  •     Won Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama - 2006 (Sacha Baron Cohen)
  •     Nominated Best Picture - Musical or Comedy - 2006
  • London Film Critics Association
  •     Nominated Best British Actor - 2006 (Sacha Baron Cohen)
  • London Film Festival
  •     Film Presented - 2006
  • Los Angeles Film Critics Association
  •     Won Best Actor - 2006 (Sacha Baron Cohen)
  • New York Film Critics Society
  •     Won Best Actor - Runner-up - 2006 (Sacha Baron Cohen)
  •     Won Best Non-Fiction Film (Runner-up) - 2006
  • Oklahoma Film Critics Circle
  •     Nominated Best Picture - 2006
  • Online Film Critics Association
  •     Won Breakthrough Performer - 2006 (Sacha Baron Cohen)
  •     Nominated Best Actor - 2006 (Sacha Baron Cohen)
  • Phoenix Film Critics Association
  •     Nominated Best Picture - 2006
  • Rome International Film Festival
  •     Film Presented - 2006
  • San Francisco Film Critics Circle
  •     Won Best Actor - 2006 (Sacha Baron Cohen)
  • Satellite Awards
  •     Nominated Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama - 2006 (Sacha Baron Cohen)
  • Toronto Film Critics Association
  •     Nominated Best Actor - 2006 (Sacha Baron Cohen)
  • Toronto International Film Festival
  •     Film Presented - 2006
  • Utah Film Critics
  •     Won Best Actor - 2006 (Sacha Baron Cohen)
  • Women Film Critics Circle
  •     Won Most Offensive Male Characters - 2006 (Sacha Baron Cohen)
  • Writers Guild of America
  •     Nominated Best Adapted Screenplay - 2006 (Anthony Hines, Sacha Baron Cohen, Todd Phillips, Dan Mazer, Peter Baynham)
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
REVIEW:
  • A clever guy like Sacha Baron Cohen must have had a hard time developing a feature-length film based on his Ali G Show character Borat. As hilarious and biting as Borat's mockumentary segments are, there's a certain squirm factor that makes the bumbling immigrant's schtick work best in small doses. Also, Baron Cohen's ability to go unrecognized and coax that incriminating candidness (or at least mortification) out of his interview subjects -- who believe their footage is intended solely for Kazakhstani TV -- has shrunk with his notoriety. Despite all this, Baron Cohen went for it, and the finished product of Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan is awesome -- genius in its infinite offensiveness to every man, woman, gypsy, rooster, grizzly bear, ice cream truck, and rodeo proprietor in America. Baron Cohen is absolutely fearless, whether he's addressing a rodeo with hopes that George W. Bush drink the blood of every human in Iraq, or returning from the bathroom at a dinner party with his feces in a plastic bag. He's also brilliantly sly, arranging the improvised footage that makes up the bulk of the film within the loose framework of a fictional story. The staged material provides occasional breathers so the audience doesn't get wound up too tight. And it works, too; director Larry Charles does for Borat what Spike Jonze did for Jackass: The Movie, taking a small-scale funny concept and making it funnier through editing and arrangement (note details like the size of the black bar obscuring Baron Cohen's genitalia during his naked wrestling match with cohort Azamat). It does create something of a dilemma, in that the scripted moments -- though hilarious -- leave you faintly disappointed that they aren't real, while a full 90 minutes of Borat unleashing his antics on bewildered citizens would probably send the audience into empathic embarrassment-shock on a scale surpassing any Ben Stiller movie. Even still, that conundrum is really the only flaw in an otherwise uproarious film. Well, that and the fact that, like any work of cunning satire, it can't possibly be appreciated by everyone. Baron Cohen doesn't advocate the trademark anti-Semitism, racism, homophobia, or general brutishness of his character (most easily proved by noting that Baron Cohen himself is Jewish, and from a deeply religious family), and Borat's repugnant behavior is meant to make us laugh not with him, but at him -- and at the morons he's able to sucker into revealing their own ignorant side while he plays dumb. For those who can handle the irony, the formula is a great success. And for the rest, they probably won't want to see it anyway. ~ Cammila Albertson, Rovi

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