Like an exploding cesspool at a country club dinner. Borat" is a mockumentary revolving around one Borat Sagdiyev, a gangly, gray-suited journalist working for Kazakhstan's state-run TV network, who takes his mangled English and die-hard prejudices to America to make a documentary about life in the U.S. of A. Borat is the brainchild of British comic Sacha Baron Cohen, creator and star of HBO's "Da Ali G Show. The director of "Borat" is one of the inventors of modern TV comedy, Larry Charles, whose sure hand here shows that he has moved on from "Masked and Anonymous," his unfortunate first misstep in cinema.

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