Casa de Los Babys (2003)

Max Schreck as Graf Orlok in "Nosferatu" (1922)

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Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror

Film.com's FREE movie of the week is "Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror." This 1922 classic of cinema based on Bram Stoker's "Dracula" (but with names changed) directed by F.W. Murnau and starring Max Schrek in one of films most famous and frightening make-up jobs.

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Rating: R

Release Date: Sep 19, 2003

Running Time: 95 mins.

Additional Notes: dialogue English and Spanish

Country Of Origin: United States

starring: Maggie Gyllenhaal, Marcia Gay Harden, Rita Moreno, Susan Lynch, Daryl Hannah, Lili Taylor, Mary Steenburgen, Vanessa Martinez

director: John Sayles

Six American women travel to an unnamed South American country to adopt babies. According to local law, the women are forced to establish residency and live among the native people. The women include: a working-class Southerner who is a member of Alcoholics Anonymous; a neurotic Jewish New Yorker; a prep school trust-fund girl; a bitter Midwesterner; a financially strapped Bostonian, and an athletic blonde.

September 25, 2003

Six women establish residence in a hotel in Latin America in order to adopt a baby. Indie legend John Sayles (Lone Star, Sunshine State) gathers a fine cast (Maggie Gyllenhaal, Marcia Gay Harden, Daryl Hannah, Susan Lynch, Lili Taylor, Mary Steenburgen) and kicks around potent ideas about child trafficking. But the film feels more like a thesis than vivid drama.

PETER TRAVERS
(September 25, 2003)

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