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Full title: Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. [TRAILER] Kazakh journalist Borat Sagdiyev (Sacha Baron Cohen) travels to America to make a documentary. As he zigzags across the nation, this mockumentary mixes in encounters between the Borat character and real people. His backwards behavior generates strong reactions around him exposing prejudices and hypocrisies in American culture. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Feb 20, 2025 - 7 comments

Chapter I: A novel exposes the secret past of a journalist when she realizes she is a character in a story with buried transgressions. Chapter II: Do you ever think of me? [more inside]
posted by bcwinters on Oct 15, 2024 - 7 comments

14 years after making a film about his journey across the USA, Borat risks life and limb when he returns to America with his young daughter, and reveals more about the American culture, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the political elections. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Oct 23, 2020 - 15 comments

In 1931 Paris, an orphan living in the walls of a train station gets wrapped up in a mystery involving his late father and an automaton. [more inside]
posted by Ten Cold Hot Dogs on Jul 14, 2020 - 3 comments

Is it funny, rude, productive, deceitful, illuminating, mean, subversive, constructive, or a great example of how we got where we are today pretending to be a solution to where we are today? Sacha Baron Cohen's latest "entertainment" involves four characters (disguises) who question political figures, celebrities, and ordinary citizens about the current state of American politics. [more inside]
posted by Stanczyk on Jul 19, 2018 - 7 comments