Casa de los Babys gets its title from a motel in an unnamed South American country where American women wait while the local adoption process slowly matches them with babies. They re making us pay for our babies with the balance of trade, complains the always-critical Nan (Marcia Gay Harden) as the days and weeks go by. The women shop, sunbathe, go out to lunch and gossip about one another, and we eavesdrop on conversations that are sometimes cynical, sometimes heartbreaking.
The movie was written and directed by John Sayles, the conscience of American independent filmmaking, who doesn t package it with a neat message because there is nothing easy to be said about the adoption industry. We meet local mothers who have given up their babies for adoption, and local radicals who oppose adoption for ideological reasons, but we also see young children living on the streets.
Witness (1985) ★★★
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Working Girl (1988) ★★★
X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009) ★★
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