Baby Sellers

This movie deals with the themes of child and infant trafficking, so it's very dark and intense. At the same time, it is solid insight into this awful criminal enterprise. It's very serious, so don't watch unless you're in the mood for that.

This was actually pretty good especially when the story left (fake) San Francisco (Vancouver) and moved internationally. I got particularly caught up in all the victims stories; a young girl in south America who is told her blond haired, blue eyed newborn has "died" along with several victims in India as well as the desperation and loss of the American families, attempting to adopt. All the secondary characters did a great job here. This is a (Lifetime) TV movie but not as cheesy as usual and could actually function quite well as a TV series. Jennifer Finnigan is good as a Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) detective, determined to bring down a ruthless international kingpin who controls a worldwide baby-selling operation. After losing her partner in a bust gone bad (which also results in a truckload of trafficked pregnant women and live babies)'Nic' goes undercover as a perspective adoptive parent, travelling to India and becoming entwined with a family whose baby has been stolen. Kirstie Alley plays the black market baby operator 'Carla Huxley' and is suitably nasty, preying on the desperation of the perspective adopters while remaining ruthless and treating babies like cattle. The ending is slightly abrupt but a decent made for TV movie. 3/17/15

I have a hard time understanding why some producers pick people from Hispanic cultures to play Brazilians. Brazilian accent can't be imitated by Hispanic people, neither by the Portuguese unless they have Brazilian parents or have lived for a long time in Brazil. Or else that will never work. Brazil is a large country located in South America with 200 million inhabitants these days. The USA territory is only large than Brazil because of Alaska and Brazil is the only country in the whole South America continent with its distinct Portuguese language. Despite the Portuguese influence, just like in America, where the English is no longer British, Portuguese spoken in Brazil is nothing like Portuguese spoken in Portugal. "Brazilian Portuguese" is influenced by Greek and mostly Italian, so it sounds for Americans almost like Russian. Americans are usually surprised when they listen to Portuguese. Having said that, stop calling us Latin because we speak a language which was Latin because Canadians are not French or British and Americans are not British. This movie is OK, only OK.

While newborn babies are sold in faraway places like India, others near their destination for upscale American customers. In San Francisco, tough Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) detective Jennifer Finnigan (as Nichole "Nic" Morrison) closes in on a truckload of live babies and pregnant women. She loses an partner in the process. Determined to bust black market baby operator Kirstie Alley (as Carla Huxley), Ms. Finnigan goes undercover as a prospective buyer... This starts out looking very ordinary and loses some of its believability in melodrama, but turns out to be an exciting and thoughtfully told tale. Produced as a "Lifetime" TV Movie, "Baby Sellers" (a descriptive, but exploitive title) could almost be a major feature film (as "Road to Love") starring someone like Jodie Foster. In the lead, Finnigan performs exceptionally. Direction by Nick Willing and editing are skillful, with only minor occurrences of the distracting "shaky camera" look... Ordering her adopted daughter to eat a salad with "no dessert," Ms. Alley is deliciously nasty. The largely unknown group of supporting players is impressive, with our emotions naturally focused on victims Arjun Gupta (as Dilip Patel) and Nicole Munoz (as Dolorita Da Silva), plus sleazy Zak Santiago (as Rafael Ochoa). The socially relevant point is very well made. We are supposed to feel empathy for the these characters, and writer Suzette Couture certainly gets the job done. ******** Baby Sellers (8/17/13) Nick Willing ~ Jennifer Finnigan, Kirstie Alley, Arjun Gupta, Nicole Munoz

This movie deals with the themes of child and infant trafficking, so it's very dark and intense. At the same time, it is solid insight into this awful criminal enterprise. It's very serious, so don't watch unless you're in the mood for that.

This was actually pretty good especially when the story left (fake) San Francisco (Vancouver) and moved internationally. I got particularly caught up in all the victims stories; a young girl in south America who is told her blond haired, blue eyed newborn has "died" along with several victims in India as well as the desperation and loss of the American families, attempting to adopt. All the secondary characters did a great job here. This is a (Lifetime) TV movie but not as cheesy as usual and could actually function quite well as a TV series. Jennifer Finnigan is good as a Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) detective, determined to bring down a ruthless international kingpin who controls a worldwide baby-selling operation. After losing her partner in a bust gone bad (which also results in a truckload of trafficked pregnant women and live babies)'Nic' goes undercover as a perspective adoptive parent, travelling to India and becoming entwined with a family whose baby has been stolen. Kirstie Alley plays the black market baby operator 'Carla Huxley' and is suitably nasty, preying on the desperation of the perspective adopters while remaining ruthless and treating babies like cattle. The ending is slightly abrupt but a decent made for TV movie. 3/17/15

I have a hard time understanding why some producers pick people from Hispanic cultures to play Brazilians. Brazilian accent can't be imitated by Hispanic people, neither by the Portuguese unless they have Brazilian parents or have lived for a long time in Brazil. Or else that will never work. Brazil is a large country located in South America with 200 million inhabitants these days. The USA territory is only large than Brazil because of Alaska and Brazil is the only country in the whole South America continent with its distinct Portuguese language. Despite the Portuguese influence, just like in America, where the English is no longer British, Portuguese spoken in Brazil is nothing like Portuguese spoken in Portugal. "Brazilian Portuguese" is influenced by Greek and mostly Italian, so it sounds for Americans almost like Russian. Americans are usually surprised when they listen to Portuguese. Having said that, stop calling us Latin because we speak a language which was Latin because Canadians are not French or British and Americans are not British. This movie is OK, only OK.