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Sacha Baron Cohen's mockumentary phenomenon: his clueless Kazakh TV journalist Borat rampages across America interviewing real, unsuspecting people, exposing what they'll say to a "foreigner." Spun off from Da Ali G Show, it was a critical smash, a quoting machine ("Very nice!"), and a diplomatic incident all at once.
The sketch show that owned the mid-2000s. Dave Chappelle's Comedy Central juggernaut turned razor-sharp racial satire and absurd characters into the most-quoted comedy of the decade — "I'm Rick James, b****!" echoing down every school hallway.
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Paul Verhoeven's militaristic sci-fi satire based on Robert A. Heinlein's 1959 novel, starring Casper Van Dien as a young soldier fighting giant bugs in a fascistic future society. A visual spectacle that was widely misunderstood upon release but has become a celebrated cult classic.
Jim Carrey's first great dramatic turn: Truman Burbank is an ordinary insurance salesman who slowly realizes his entire hometown is a giant TV set and everyone he knows is an actor — his whole life broadcast 24/7 to the world. Directed by Peter Weir from an Andrew Niccol script, it turned a high-concept nightmare into a tender, unsettling fable that only looked more prophetic as reality TV took over.