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Overall Rank: 8171
Average Rating: 2.7/4
# of Ratings: 7
Theatrical Release Date: 10/08/2004
Language: Other
Genre: Comedy, Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Hiner Saleem
Actors: Romen Avinian, Lala Sarkissian, Ivan Franek, Ruzan Mesropyan, Zahal Karielachvili, Astrik Avaguian
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Send me bus fare so I can cheat on your mom!
Snake Sugarbaker - wrote on 12/14/2009
At the start of Vodka Lemon, Hamo (Romen Avinian), an Armenian man in his 60s, travels to the capital to collect a parcel from his son. Expecting hard foreign currency, widower Hamo is disappointed to discover only a letter.
For Hamo, like many others in his backwater village, a $10 per month expense account is barely sufficient (even for an Armenian backwater). Hamo's widowed neighbor Nina (Lala Sarkissian), for instance, is ****ed when she's laid off from the roadside vodka stand where she earns a similar salary. With precious little else for unemployed citizens to do in the snowy Armenian Caucuses, Hamo and Nina visit their spouses daily and befriend one another on the bus ride there.
The film is primarily about loss, whether it be young sons traveling to the West for …
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