Borat: Cultural Learnings of America For Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
Social criticism, satire, and fat nudity.
This year's most hilarious and controversial movie had viewers rolling in the aisles and feeling guilty afterward, said Ty Burr in The Boston Globe. British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, in the guise of a backward tourist, skewers American sanctimony and bigotry by drawing out subjects' darkest secrets in idiotic conversation. Sure, he humiliates a few of our countrymen, but that's what comedy is all about. 'œWell, that and a naked fat guy running through a sales convention.'
Rating: R
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