Casa de los babys opens Friday

John Sayles' latest film, Casa de los babys, opens in limited release on Friday in the United States. The movie, filmed in Mexico and set in an unspecified Spanish-speaking country in South America, tells the story of six American women trying to adopt foreign babies. To meet legal requirements, they end up staying in the same building, from which the film's title (it means "house of the babies") is derived. Limited portions of the film are in Spanish. See the film's official Web site...
 
Incidentally, babys is the correct Spanish spelling. Baby is one of those English words imported into Spanish that is made plural simply by adding the -s suffix. The word is used often enough to be in larger Spanish dictionaries, and it is pronounced more or less the same as the English word. And while the Spanish word baby can refer to a small child, it frequently, like the English word "babe," is used to refer with mild sexual overtones to an attractive young woman.