Where to watch Borat (2006)
Borat is available to stream in ES on Disney+. It can also be rented or bought from AppleTV and Amazon.
A journalist from Kazakhstan travels across the United States to film a documentary about American culture. His naive manners, provocative beliefs, and awkward encounters with strangers create a series of outrageous situations that expose prejudice, hypocrisy, and cultural misunderstandings.
Cast: Ken Davitian, Sacha Baron Cohen, Luenell, Alex Daniels, Jim Vickers, Peewee Piemonte, Michael Li, Harry Wowchuk, Nicole Randall, Pamela Anderson, Bob Barr, Alan Keyes
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Trivia & production notes
- Most scenes in the film were unscripted, and except for Pamela Anderson and three other credited actors, the remaining participants were not professional performers.
- Director Todd Phillips left the production after filming the rodeo scene due to creative differences with Sacha Baron Cohen, and Larry Charles took over as director.
- Over 400 hours of footage were shot for the film according to an interview with Baron Cohen.
- The village scenes depicting Borat's Kazakhstan home were actually filmed in Glod, a Romanian village primarily inhabited by Roma people.
- Borat speaks Hebrew mixed with Polish throughout the film, while his character's neighbor Azamat speaks Armenian.
- A scene where Borat observed the shooting of actual pornography was filmed but deleted so as not to compete with the naked hotel fight scene.
- The film's soundtrack was released digitally on October 24, 2006, and included music by Sacha Baron Cohen's brother Erran, a founding member of ZOHAR Sound System.
- At the Toronto International Film Festival premiere in 2006, the projector broke twenty minutes into the screening, and Baron Cohen performed an impromptu act to entertain the audience.
- Borat earned more in its second weekend ($29 million) than its opening weekend ($26.4 million) due to expanding into additional theaters.
- The Guardian named Borat the 23rd greatest film of the 21st century in 2019, and included it in its list of the ten best films of the 2000s decade.
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