电影用讽刺癫狂的手段,展现了哈萨克主播波拉特(萨莎·拜伦·科恩 Sacha Baron Cohen 饰)到美国的一场“文化之旅”。波拉特在哈萨克国内是个排名第六的主持人,擅长用粗俗搞笑的桥段吸引观众眼球。他的家人也有点儿“怪”,妹妹还获得“风尘小姐”的第四名。 就是这样一个主持人,被派去了美国进行文化学习,并拍回来一部纪录片。波拉特和制片人在人们的欢送下来到了光怪陆离的美国。他开始学习美国的礼仪,接触美国的文化,然而却处处碰壁,处处闹出笑话。这天波拉特在电视上看到心中的美丽女神,心驰神往,甚至忘记了此行任务……能否学成归国,对于乐不思蜀的波拉特还是未知数呢。Borat Sagdiyev is a TV reporter of a popular show in Kazakhstan as Kazakhstan's sixth most famous man and a leading journalist. He is sent from his home to America by his government to make a documentary about American society and culture. Borat takes a course in New York City to understand American humor. While watching Baywatch on TV, Borat discovers how beautiful their women are in the form of C. J. Parker, who was played by actress Pamela Anderson who hails from Malibu, California. He decides to go on a cross-country road trip to California in a quest to make her his wife and take her back to his country. On his journey Borat and his producer encounter a country full of strange and wonderful Americans, real people in real chaotic situations with hysterical consequences.