5) The Time Multiple Lawsuits Stacked Up For Borat
There was no single legal action against Borat and Baron Cohen quite as big as the ninth-largest country in the world threatening to sue, but the film was all the same an absolute lawsuit magnet.
For starters, the Romanian town of Glod, which played Borat’s home village, attempted to sue Baron Cohen for $38 million. The suit was thrown out, but that wasn’t the end of Borat‘s legal trouble.
The individuals who tried to sue Baron Cohen for Borat include: the frat bros seen in the film talking about “the f***ing ho’s”, Macedonian singer Esma Redžepova, one of the people on the subway carriage that ‘Borat’ releases a chicken on and the man who gave Borat a driving lesson.
That’s hardly all of them though, and the film was also criticized by the Anti-Defamation League and the Veteran Feminists of America.