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Journeys from fiction drawn on the real world

Larry Charles · 2006 · road

Sacha Baron Cohen's 2006 mockumentary. The hapless Kazakh TV reporter Borat flies to New York to make a documentary about America, then drives a beat-up ice-cream truck clear across the country - Washington, the Deep South, and on to California - chasing his dream of marrying Pamela Anderson, exposing the people he meets to his own outrageousness at every stop.

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    Borat's village, Kazakhstan

    Borat Sagdiyev, a star of Kazakh state television, sets off to make a documentary about life in America.

  2. 2
    New York City

    He lands in New York, fumbles through American customs, and on TV discovers Pamela Anderson.

  3. 3
    Washington, D.C.

    Driving lessons and etiquette coaching as he prepares to cross the country by road.

  4. 4
    Salem, Virginia

    At a rodeo, his mangled anthem turns the whole crowd against him.

  5. 5
    Columbia, South Carolina

    He falls in with drunken fraternity brothers touring in their RV.

  6. 6
    Birmingham, Alabama

    A refined Southern dinner party undoes every lesson in manners he has learned.

  7. 7
    Los Angeles, California

    Hollywood at last, to seek the hand of Pamela Anderson.

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Borat Map: Larry Charles's Journey