Casa de los Babys

Six American women travel to Latin America in order to pick up their adopted children. They all stay at the same motel while they each wade through the bureaucracy. Women share with each other their fears, hopes, dreams, and frustrations at the thoughts of becoming mothers., Director John Sayles assembled a strong female cast for this compelling drama. Discouraged by the U.S. adoption system, six disparate—and desperate—would-be mothers converge on a Mexican hotel, waiting to adopt a local infant. Among them: an obnoxious Northerner (Marcia Gay Harden) and a rich woman (Maggie Gyllenhaal) in a troubled marriage. Daryl Hannah, Susan Lynch., Six would-be mothers from America converge on a Mexican hotel, hoping to adopt local infants., John Sayles’ Casa de los Babys tells the tale of a half-dozen American women who travel to Latin America in order to pick up their adopted children. They all stay at the same motel while they each wade through the bureaucracy. Sharing with each other their fears, hopes, dreams, and frustrations at the thoughts of becoming mothers comprises the majority of the drama in the film. The cast includes Maggie Gyllenhaal, Daryl Hannah, Marcia Gay Harden, Susan Lynch, Mary Steenburgen, Lili Taylor, and Rita Moreno., Six American women goes to Latin America in order to pick up their adopted children. While trying to cut through the red tape and bureaucracy surrounding the process, they share with each other their fears, hopes and dreams.