Much of the film features unscripted vignettes of Borat interviewing and interacting with real-life Americans who believe he is a foreigner with little or no understanding of American customs.
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33 Facts About Borat
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Borat was released on 2 November 2006, in both the United Kingdom and United States, by 20th Century Fox.
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Borat was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and for Writers Guild of America Award in the same category.
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Borat is then informed by telegram that Oksana has been killed by a bear.
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Borat takes driving lessons and buys a dilapidated ice-cream truck for the journey.
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Borat meets gay pride parade participants, politicians Alan Keyes and Bob Barr, and African-American youths.
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Borat is interviewed on a local television station and proceeds to disrupt the weather report.
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An etiquette coach suggests Borat attend a private dinner at an eating club in the South.
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9.
Borat befriends Luenell, who invites him into a relationship with her, but he tells her that he is in love with someone else.
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At a hotel, Borat sees Azamat masturbating over a picture of Pamela Anderson.
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11.
An angry Borat accidentally reveals his real motive for traveling to California.
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Azamat abandons Borat, taking his passport, all of their money, and the bear.
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Borat is soon picked up by drunken fraternity brothers from the University of South Carolina.
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Borat attends a United Pentecostal camp meeting, at which Republican U S Representative Chip Pickering and Mississippi Supreme Court Chief Justice James W Smith, Jr.
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Borat undergoes a religious conversion and forgives Azamat and Pamela.
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Borat accompanies church members on a bus to Los Angeles and soon finds Azamat dressed as Oliver Hardy.
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Borat finally comes face-to-face with Anderson at a book signing at a Virgin Megastore.
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18.
The name of Borat's neighbour, Nursultan Tulyakbay, is a cross between the names of Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev and opposition politician Zharmakhan Tuyakbay.
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20.
The deleted scenes menu includes an intentionally tedious supermarket sequence with an unusually patient supermarket owner, an actual local TV news report about Borat's rodeo singing, and a final "happy ending" scene about Borat appearing in a Kazakh show entitled "Sexydrownwatch", a Baywatch clone that starred Azamat, Luenell and Alexandra Paul.
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21.
Borat was previewed at the 2006 Comic-Con International in San Diego, California, on 21 July 2006.
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23.
On its second weekend, Borat surpassed its opening with a total of US$29 million.
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24.
Borat debuted at No 1 on its opening weekend, with a total gross of $26.
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25.
Borat was featured on multiple top ten lists of the best films in 2006.
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26.
Borat's said that she checked a public relations website that Borat's producers gave her before booking him.
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Villagers of Glod, Romania, took legal action against the producers of Borat, complaining that they were lied to about the nature of the filming and they were portrayed as incestuous and ignorant.
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Jeffrey Lemerond, who was shown running and yelling, "Get away" as Borat attempted to hug strangers on a New York street, filed a legal case claiming his image was used in the film illegally, and that he suffered "public ridicule, degradation and humiliation" as a result.
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29.
In November 2006, Kazakh TV personality Jantemir Baimukhamedov travelled to London with the stated aim of presenting Baron Cohen with horse meat and horse urine, which were claimed by Borat to be the national food and drink of Kazakhstan, although he was unable to organise a meeting with him.
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30.
Kazakh tabloid Karavan declared Borat to be the best film of the year, having had a reviewer see the film at a screening in Vienna.
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31.
Soundtrack for Borat was released on the iTunes Store on 24 October 2006, and in shops on 31 October 2006.
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32.
Borat was released on Blu-ray in the US on 9 November 2009 as a region-free disc.
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33.
However, this was contradicted by an interview in which Baron Cohen himself stated that Borat was to be discontinued, as he was now too recognizable to prevent detection as he did in the original film and on Da Ali G Show.
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