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Mood:
- ContemplativeSincereCleverTouching
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Plot:
- Babies and InfantsAdoptionCulture ClashHopesSocietyFollow Your DreamPoliticsSocial Differences more...
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Genres:
- DramaIndependent
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Time/Period:
- Contemporary21st Century
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Place:
- Mexico
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Audience:
- Girls' Night
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Style:
- All Star CastEnsemble CastStrong Female PresenceTalky
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Attitudes:
- SeriousRealisticSlow
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- Profanity
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Casa de los Babys, 2003
English, Spanish
USA, Mexico
Profile of Casa de los Babys
Casa de los Babys can be described as contemplative, sincere, and clever. The plot revolves around babies, adoption, and culture clash. The main genres are drama and independent. In terms of style, Casa de los Babys features an all-star cast, stars a strong female character, and stars an ensemble cast. In approach, it is serious and realistic. The storytelling is slow paced. Casa de los Babys is located in Mexico. It takes place in contemporary times. It is well suited for a girls' night. Note that Casa de los Babys involves profanity.
Summary of Casa de los Babys
A group of six women from the United States, each of whom wants to adopt a baby, are checked into a hotel in South America waiting for the paperwork to go through. As their wait stretches on for weeks, they each get to know each other, sharing their hopes and fears. Meanwhile, the film explores every layer of people who are effected by the industry--from the teenage girls who give their babies up for adoption to the nurses that care for them as they're being assigned to new mothers. The local homeless boys sniffing paint in the street clearly don't receive the parenting they deserve, and yet the hotel staff dealing with the wealthy U.S. mothers-to-be sees a different side of the story--these women may not make for competent moms.
Actresses Marcia Gay Harden (as the wonderfully difficult Nan), Maggie Gyllenhaal (as the painfully naive Jennifer), Daryl Hannah (as the quietly new agey Skipper), Susan Lynch (as the humble and loving Eileen), Lili Taylor (as the tough and jaded Leslie), and Mary Steenburgen (as the graceful optimist Gayle) are outstanding together, displaying loads of talent and illustrating Sayles' knack for character development. A touching look at what it means to enter motherhood, complicated by issues of class, politics, and pure emotion, Casa de los Babys is a thorough and pensive film that only a skilled director like John Sayles could create in such a seamlessly effective way.
Details
| Language: | English, Spanish |
| Country: | USA, Mexico |
| Release date: | 19 September 2003 |
| Runtime: | 95 min |
Cast and Crew
as Jennifer
as Nan
as Skipper
as Leslie
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Critics Reviews
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
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- by: Rick Groen
Entertainment Weekly
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- by: Owen Gleiberman
