Casa de los Babys (2003)
Average Rating: 6/10
Reviews Counted: 105
Fresh: 61 | Rotten: 44
Well-acted and thought provoking, if not completely satisfying.
Average Rating: 5.9/10
Critic Reviews: 31
Fresh: 18 | Rotten: 13
Well-acted and thought provoking, if not completely satisfying.
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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
Sep 19, 2003 Wide
Apr 13, 2004
$0.3M
IFC Films
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Cast
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Maggie Gyllenhaal
Jennifer -
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Daryl Hannah
Skipper -
Susan Lynch
Eileen -
Mary Steenburgen
Gayle -
Lili Taylor
Leslie -
Rita Moreno
Senorita Munoz -
Vanessa Martinez
Asuncion -
Pedro Armendariz Jr.
Ernesto -
Bruno Bichir
Diomendes -
Angelina Peláez
Dona Mercedes -
Miguel Rodarte
Oscar -
Guillermo Ivan Duenas
Reynaldo -
David Hevia
Ivan -
Martha Higareda
Celia -
Blanca Loaria
Socorro -
Juan Carlos Vives
Buho
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All Critics (111) | Top Critics (34) | Fresh (62) | Rotten (44) | DVD (8)
Each woman is a cardboard cutout, and the talented actresses here seem boxed in by their roles.
Top CriticA raw slice of life that goes beyond the obvious external issues.
It is a story without a story, helpless and wandering, enjoyable for its parts but failing as a whole.
If most of the characters seem underdeveloped, they are also convincing and interesting.
Sayles, a rare screenwriter who consistently creates thoughtful roles for grown-up women, has outdone himself here.
Suggests a filmmaker whose vision has become reductive, motivated not by all-embracing interest but by an ultimately self-protective intent not to surrender to blind emotion in any form.
"Casa de los Baby's" is a frustrating and tedious experience to endure.
Didactic rather than dramatic, and schematic rather than realistic, Sayles' femme-driven yarn, set in an anonymous place, lags behind the zeitgeist with little to say about the issue of adoption or First vs. Third World countries.
a political pamphlet not very different from others that come from left-leaning Hollywood these days
Os poucos momentos de maior inspiração não são suficientes para fazer jus à carreira de Sayles, às belas atuações de seu elenco e tampouco ao importante tema de seu filme.
Sayles lets the befuddlements and ordinary complications of life take its course like a winding, sunlit stream.
John Sayles' most recent film, 2003's Casa de los Babys, exemplifies his approach to the intersection of the political and the personal.
Sayles' love of and respect for the culture, and his willingness-or eagerness-to leave the viewer with more questions than answers makes Casa de los Babys superlative.
The story trails off in so many directions that it's hard to follow. After a while, I just found myself losing interest.
Casa de los Babys isn't a perfect film. It ultimately seems brief and leaves too much of the women's (and children's) fates to our imagination...
Goo-goo gag me.
All in all, the film just tries to do too much.
Writer-director John Sayles has successfully tackled so many unexpected subjects that one has to wonder if he's got a dartboard in his office to help him pick his next topic.
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