Daryl Hannah has some excellent moments as Skipper. Best of all is Marcia Gay Harden, as the pathetic Nan, a prototype of the "ugly American" abroad. Those children are desperately in need for adoption, yet their own society, or would be parents, will bypass them in favor of the ones that can only be obtained in a legal manner. At the same time, he makes a case for how complicated the whole thing is and how these would be mothers have to face as these young infants grow in an environment that stands in sharp contrast with the street children he brings into the movie. In this film he tackles the commerce that goes on in the adoption process. John Sayles never cease to amaze us with his stories. Celia, who is only fifteen years old, evidently had relations with Reynaldo, the young stud that roams the beach in search of easy conquests. Also, we see what appears to be an upscale woman with her pregnant daughter, Celia, as the mother weighs her options and how the girl will not have an adoption. When Eileen tries to communicate with her, the maid, not understanding her, tells her in Spanish about the way she had to give up her own baby girl for adoption. The most touching story comes from Asuncion, one of the maids in the hotel. There are also a couple of stories running parallel to the American women. Leslie and Gayle seem to be the best adjusted of the women. Eileen, coming from a large Irish family has not been able to conceive. Everything irritates her and she lets anyone know about what she thinks about the country and the adoption procedures. Nan, a pushy woman, is an unhappy camper. The quiet Skipper turns out to be the one who has suffered three dreadful pregnancies in which all three infants had died. Although we don't get to know them in intimate details, we can see their desire to be mothers. The six women in the story are so different from one another that it is hard to imagine them socializing, had they not been thrown together in the hotel to await for their newly adopted babies. Since the law requires to have a local lawyer, most would be mothers have to rely on this intermediary in order to adopt. The connection is clear, in this case, the lawyer in charge of the adoption recommend their clients to stay at Posada Santa Marta, where the owner, Senora Munoz is working with the unscrupulous man.
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For one reason, or another, they haven't been able to have their own babies. We meet six American women who have come to Mexico in the hope of adopting children. We know a few cases where overseas adoptions have cost upwards of $100,000.00, when all is taken into account. It has turned to be a commercial enterprise for many people. Well, in most cases, as we see in this film, there are people that profit from this process.
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After all, if a woman finds herself unable to conceive, it would probably be a good idea to let her go anywhere where orphans and children that have been given up for adoption to be reunited with an infant. Adopting children should be a labor of love.