Casa De Los Babys

Six women desperate to adopt an infant converge on a hotel — nicknamed the "Casa de los Babys" — in an unnamed Latin-American country where prospective adoptive mothers must fulfill a lengthy residency requirement. Less a group portrait than a series of character sketches, writer-director John Sayles's story encompasses not only the woes of the yanquis, but also those of the hotel's owner (Rita Moreno), staff and a trio of feral street children whose futures are already used up. United by isolation (only one speaks any Spanish) and frustration with a bureaucracy that seems designed to take their money and toy with their fragile hopes, the American women form a...