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* Hitchcock gives us another nightmare mother in ''[[Notorious]]''. Alex's mother not only seems to be instrumental in his Nazi activities, but she responds very badly to his falling for Alicia.
* There's an actual movie called ''Smother''. Care to guess what the mother's like?
* ''[[Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot]]'' is about one of these interfering with her policeman son's job.
* Owen's mother from ''[[Throw Momma from the Train]]''.
* The mother of Bobby Boucher ([[Adam Sandler]]'s character) in ''[[The Waterboy]]''. She eventually realizes that Bobby needs to have his own life, and even helps him get to the big game at the end.
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* Sam Witwicky's mom in the ''[[Transformers]]'' movies.
* The Mexican [[Mind Screw]] ''[[Santa Sangre]]'' (''Holy Blood''), directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky, is about an armless mother—maimed by her husband after she discovers his affair—literally taking control of his son's hands and using them to exact vengeance and commit murder, {{spoiler|although [[The Reveal]] suggests that it is all in the son's mind, the mother not having survived the mutilation.}}
* The mother of Vicente in the Colombian comedy (it's actually drama) film ''"Mama, Tomate La Sopa"''. The main conflict of the story is Vicente trying to get a business on his own and getting the woman he wants, as his mother's smothering nature have
* In the movie ''[[Heartbreakers]]'', [[Sigourney Weaver]] plays a Smother, although quite tame by the rest of the examples on this page. She sincerely doesn't want her daughter's heart to be broken. However, she will con and lie to her daughter to achieve this. But near the end, {{spoiler|when she sees that her daughter truly was in love with their last con, the con that the Smother drugged, she comes clean, and lets her daughter live her life.}}
* Howard Hughes' mother in ''[[The Aviator]]'', who caused his [[Super OCD]].
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* ''[[Awake (film)|Awake]]'': Clayton's mother Lillith's over-protective nature is the main reason that he is afraid of telling her about his engagement, as he knows she would never accept Sam. She also tries to get him to drop Jack, his best friend, as his heart surgeon in favor of an acquaintance of hers who is at the top of the field. {{spoiler|As it turns out, she was right on both counts.}}
* ''Almost'' the premise of ''[[J. Edgar]]''.
* Rose DeWitt Bukater's mother in ''[[Titanic]]'' is a patronizing bitch who wants to make sure that her daughter is a [[Proper Lady]].
== Literature ==
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{{quote|"So, it's come at last. At last it's come, the day I knew would come at last has come, at last. My sonny-boy doesn't need me any longer."}}
::and it only gets more over-the-top from there.
* ''[[Gypsy]]'', along with the memoirs of [[Gypsy Rose Lee]] that it is based on, exemplifies this one. Made worse in that the Smother in question is also a [[Stage Mom]].
* In ''[[Once Upon a Mattress]]'', Queen Aggravain tells her son she wants him to get married, but only to a ''real'' princess, and she keeps creating impossible tests for the princesses who want to marry her son so he never has to leave. The King can hardly argue with her, as he [[The Speechless|can't speak]].
* Lady Bracknell from [[Oscar Wilde]]'s ''[[The Importance of Being Earnest]]''.
* One of the main plot points of Leonard Gershe's ''Butterflies Are Free'', in which the mother (played brilliantly by Eileen Heckart, both on stage and in the 1972 film adaptation, for which she won the Oscar) fights desperately against her blind twenty-something son's desire for independence after he moves out. {{spoiler|It all works out okay.}}
== Video Games ==
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