History MyBelovedSmother / LiveActionFilms

* In the Creator/{{CBC}} movie ''Film/{{Jack|2013}}'', about [[CanadaEh Canadian]] [[UsefulNotes/CanadianPolitics politician]] Jack Layton, Olivia is portrayed early in the movie as living with her mother out of tradition; said mother is portrayed as being very picky about who her daughter should date, and very critical of Jack.

* ''Film/GodzillaVsKong'': The film hints that [[Characters/MonsterVerseMarkRussell Mark Russell]] has developed shades of this towards his daughter Madison after [[Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019 the events of the previous film]] which left her in his custody -- besides dismissing everything she tries to tell him about Godzilla's rampage no matter how common-sensed her pointers are, Mark makes it clear he flat-out just wants her completely cut off from the current Titan situation because he out of personal bias doesn't want to have to deal with the stress of worrying about her on top of everything else; but he also clearly thinks Madison is JustAKid who doesn't know what she's talking about, even though she proved in the previous film that she is anything but. The {{novelization}}'s expansion portrays Mark as being even worse than this and slightly [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructs]] it: Mark would rather try and mould Madison to be what he thinks she should be (an ordinary teenage girl) instead of accepting what she went through in the previous film has irrevocably made her [[WiseBeyondTheirYears Wise Beyond Her Years]] and instead of making any real attempts to understand her differences from him, and because of this Madison has a strained relationship with Mark and resents him, CallingTheOldManOut more than once. Is it any wonder that a portion of the Franchise/MonsterVerse fandom prefer to headcanon a [[Characters/MonsterVerseGodzilla giant prehistoric animal]] as Madison's father figure over Mark?

* ''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.]]

* Gordon/Fester's mother Abigail in ''Series/TheAddamsFamily''. Although to be fair, [[spoiler:she's not actually his mother; she just took him in after finding him unconscious and amnesiac many years ago and took full advantage of his blank slate to fill it with her personal agenda.]].

* Sam Witwicky's mom in the ''Film/{{Transformers}}'' movies.

* Penny Pingleton's mother Prudy treats her like this in ''Film/{{Hairspray}}'', forbidding her from watching "The Corny Collins Show" and from visiting Tracy's house.

%%* The premise of the film ''Guilt Trip''.

* Jessica Lange plays Martha, an EvilMatriarch version of the trope in the movie ''Hush'', opposite Gwyneth Paltrow as her daughter in law Helen. Not only [[spoiler:she killed her husband to cover up how she was cheating on him ''and'' she aborted her unborn first baby when she learned said baby was a girl and not a boy]], but she intends to [[spoiler:isolate Helen from everyone ''even during childbirth'' (she succeeds) and then kill her so she can have her son Jackson and her baby grandson Kyle all to herself. (She fails).]]

* In ''Film/TheManchurianCandidate'' war hero Raymond Shaw is dominated by his mother Eleanor to the point where she's able to force him to break up with the girl he's fallen in love with. This winds up central to the plot as [[spoiler:being so conditioned to obey his mother leaves him ripe for Soviet brainwashing. His trigger is even a Queen Of Diamonds playing card because it reminds him of his mother. Oh, and Mrs. Shaw is the Communist agent who's feeding him his orders.]]

* ''Film/GodzillaVsKong'': The film hints that [[Characters/MonsterVerseFamilies Mark Russell]] has developed shades of this towards his daughter Madison after [[Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019 the events of the previous film]] which left her in his custody -- besides dismissing everything she tries to tell him about Godzilla's rampage no matter how common-sensed her pointers are, Mark makes it clear he flat-out just wants her completely cut off from the current Titan situation because he out of personal bias doesn't want to have to deal with the stress of worrying about her on top of everything else; but he also clearly thinks Madison is JustAKid who doesn't know what she's talking about, even though she proved in the previous film that she is anything but. The {{novelization}}'s expansion portrays Mark as being even worse than this and slightly [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructs]] it: Mark would rather try and mould Madison to be what he thinks she should be (an ordinary teenage girl) instead of accepting what she went through in the previous film has irrevocably made her [[WiseBeyondTheirYears Wise Beyond Her Years]] and instead of making any real attempts to understand her differences from him, and because of this Madison has a strained relationship with Mark and resents him, CallingTheOldManOut more than once. Is it any wonder that a portion of the Franchise/MonsterVerse fandom prefer to headcanon a [[Characters/MonsterVerseGodzilla giant prehistoric animal]] as Madison's father figure over Mark?

* Howard Hughes' mother in ''Film/TheAviator'', who caused his SuperOCD.

* ''Film/GodzillaVsKong'': The film hints that [[Characters/MonsterVerseFamilies Mark Russell]] has developed shades of this towards his daughter Madison after [[Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019 the events of the previous film]] which left her in his custody -- besides dismissing everything she tries to tell him about Godzilla's rampage no matter how common-sensed her pointers are, Mark makes it clear he flat-out just wants her completely cut off from the current Titan situation because he out of personal bias doesn't want to have to deal with the stress of worrying about her on top of everything else; but he also clearly thinks Madison is JustAKid who doesn't know what she's talking about, even though she proved in the previous film that she is anything but. The {{novelization}}'s expansion portrays Mark as being even worse than this and slightly [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructs]] it: Mark would rather try and mould Madison to be what he thinks she should be (an ordinary teenage girl) instead of accepting what she went through in the previous film has irrevocably made her [[WiseBeyondTheirYears Wise Beyond Her Years]] and instead of making any real attempts to understand her differences from him, and because of this Madison has a strained relationship with Mark and resents him, CallingTheOldManOut more than once.
* ''Radio/OurMissBrooks'': In the series' [[TheMovie the cinematic]] GrandFinale, Mr. Boynton's mother is this way. Mr. Boynton ends up buying a house to take care of his ailing mother. However, the elder Mrs. Boynton is ultimately a kind woman and eventually conspires with Mrs. Davis to ensure Miss Brooks is able to marry her son and live HappilyEverAfter.
--> '''Mrs. Boynton''': Believe me, my dear, I wouldn't stand in the way of your happiness for all the world!
* Aunt Martha in ''Film/SleepawayCamp'' is an adoptive version of this to Angela. [[spoiler:Who is actually her nephew Peter; she wanted a girl, so she forced Peter to adopt his recently-drowned sister's identity.]]

* Lionel's mother in ''Film/{{Braindead}}''. Even when she turns into a zombie, her son is unable to confront her until the very end.

* [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen The Black Queen]] in ''Film/MirrorMask''. Her smothering behaviour is why the RebelliousPrincess ran away and used for one hell of a {{Brainwashed}} sequence.
-->'''Black Queen''': You mean, let her choose her own food... her own clothes, make her own decisions. Love her, don't try to possess her?\\
'''Helena''': That's exactly what I mean.\\
'''Black Queen''': ''({{beat}})'' Absolutely out of the question.
* ''Film/MonsterInLaw'' pits a Beloved Smother against the woman her son is engaged to. However [[spoiler:she gets better after her assistant points out both that she is far worse than her own mother-in-law and that her actions (to make her son happy) are unwarranted: he IS happy]].

* Mrs. Railton-Bell, Sybil's awful mother in ''Film/SeparateTables''. She tells Sylvia what to do, what to eat, and what to think. She won't let Sybil get a job and she's determined to stop any hint of romance between Sybil and Major Pollock.
* In ''Film/NowVoyager'', Charlotte Vale's mother is a particularly nasty version of this trope, controlling her daughter and keeping her from being independent through emotional abuse.

** The film ''Film/{{Marty}}'' starring Ernest Borgnine also counts as this, as the John Candy version is actually a remake.

* Hitchcock gives us another nightmare mother in ''Film/{{Notorious|1946}}''. Alex's mother not only seems to be instrumental in his Nazi activities, but she responds very badly to his falling for Alicia.
* Jonathan from ''Film/ClunyBrown'' only needs his mother to clear her throat to know that she's disapproving of whatever he does.

* In ''Film/TheManchurianCandidate'' war hero Raymond Shaw is dominated by his mother Eleanor to the point where she's able to force him to break up with the girl he's fallen in love with. This winds up central to the plot as [[spoiler:being so conditioned to obey his mother leaves him ripe for Soviet brainwashing. His trigger is even a Queen Of Diamonds playing card because it reminds him of his mother. Oh, and Mrs. Shaw is the Communist agent who's feeding him his orders.]]
* Sam Witwicky's mom in the ''Film/{{Transformers}}'' movies.
* The Mexican MindScrew ''Film/SantaSangre'' (''Holy Blood''), directed by Creator/AlejandroJodorowsky, is about an armless mother -- maimed by her husband after she discovers about his affair -- literally taking control of his son's hands and using them to exact vengeance and commit murder, [[spoiler:although TheReveal suggests that it is all in the son's mind, the mother not having survived the mutilation.]]
* Vicente's mom in the Colombian {{Dramedy}} ''"Mama, Tomate La Sopa"'' ("Mom, Drink the Soup"). 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 impeded him from getting anything on his own, which he thinks makes him of no value.
* In the movie ''Film/{{Heartbreakers}}'', Creator/SigourneyWeaver 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 ''Film/TheAviator'', who caused his SuperOCD.
* Gordon/Fester's mother Abigail in ''Series/TheAddamsFamily''. Although to be fair, [[spoiler:she's not actually his mother; she just took him in after finding him unconscious and amnesiac many years ago and took full advantage of his blank slate to fill it with her personal agenda.]].
-->'''Gordon/Fester''': ''(before opening the book, '[[MeaningfulName The Hurricane]]')'' "You were a terrible mother! ''(laughs)'' THERE! I SAID IT!!!
* Nina's mother in ''Film/BlackSwan'' who cripples her daughter's development by her [[StageMom overbearing parenting style]] and interference.

* Jessica Lange plays Martha, an EvilMatriarch version of the trope in the movie ''Hush'', opposite Gwyneth Paltrow as her daughter in law Helen. Not only [[spoiler:she killed her husband to cover up how she was cheating on him ''and'' she aborted her unborn first baby when she learned said baby was a girl and not a boy]], but she intends to [[spoiler:isolate Helen from everyone ''even during childbirth'' (she succeeds) and then kill her so she can have her son Jackson and her baby grandson Kyle all to herself. (She fails).]]
* ''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 ''Film/JEdgar''.
%%* MrsRobinson from ''Film/TheGraduate''.
* In the Creator/{{CBC}} movie ''Film/{{Jack|2013}}'', about [[CanadaEh Canadian]] [[UsefulNotes/CanadianPolitics politician]] Jack Layton, Olivia is portrayed early in the movie as living with her mother out of tradition; said mother is portrayed as being very picky about who her daughter should date, and very critical of Jack.
-->'''Jack''': Ten years in civic politics, and I'm not afraid of your mother.\\
'''Olivia''': You ''should'' be.
%%* The premise of the film ''Guilt Trip''.
%%* Gaylord Focker's mom in ''Film/MeetTheFockers''.
* There is a mother/daughter version in ''Film/{{Sightseers}}''. Carol is not happy to see her thirty-something daughter Tina go off on a holiday with her new boyfriend Chris. In one scene, we see Carol lying in a heap at the foot of the stairs, pressing the button on her panic alarm pendant. When Tina does not reply, Carol gets up and walks off.
* Penny Pingleton's mother Prudy treats her like this in ''Film/{{Hairspray}}'', forbidding her from watching "The Corny Collins Show" and from visiting Tracy's house.
* Rhonda's mother in ''Film/MurielsWedding'', though she's a lot more well-meaning about it than many of these examples.
* The female protagonist of ''Film/ThePianoTeacher'' is aged around 40, but still single and living with her mother. It's suggested that the absence of her father (who is in a mental institution) and her mother's overbearing behavior has made her incredibly repressed, to the point that she refuses Walter's advances because she's "going out with {her} mother on the weekend". Both women even sleep in double beds pushed together, to boot.
* [[{{Ingenue}} Della's]] loud and gauche mother Mrs. Lorna Hathaway in ''Heller In Pink Tights'' is such an example: she controls her daughter, babies her, tells her what to wear and do her hair at age 20 (almost 21), slut-shames [[Creator/SophiaLoren Angela]], and when Della stands up to her, Lorna starts exclaiming how she gave her own acting career up for her and gets nothing in return from her daughter.
* In ''Film/DeadlyAdvice'', Iris Greenwood rules the house with an iron hand and has such power over her daughters that they see themselves as becoming bitter old spinsters.
* In ''Film/UnderThePiano'', Regina always had this problem, but it gets especially bad after her four oldest children move out. She moves her autistic daughter Rosetta's bed into her room so she can watch her sleep and forces her to stay in bed until Regina gets up on non-workdays.
* ''Film/ListenToYourHeart'': Victoria closely controls her daughter Ariana's life, trying to drive her away from Danny as he's not good enough in her view. She tries to dictate whether Ariana has a cochlear implant or not as well. It's indicated that she partly became overprotective because Ariana is deaf, and lost her father to the same disease which caused this disability. However, even when Ariana is grown up she still won't ever let her decide things for herself. Nor was she very accommodating to Ariana's deafness, not learning sign language to facilitate an easier communication or having her even taught it (though she did hire a translator after Ariana learned this on her own). Ariana finally rebels and breaks out of her control.
* Leo's mother is said to have been this in "Mr. Steinway" segment of ''Film/TortureGarden'': driving away all his girlfriends so they cannot disrupt his career. It is strongly implied that it is her spirit that is [[HauntedTechnology possessing his grand piano]].
* The most famous character of Brazilian comedian Paulo Gustavo was D. Hermínia, from ''Minha Mãe é Uma Peça'' (My Mom Is A Character; or more literally, My Mom Is a Play[er], [[TheFilmOfThePlay given it originated in the theater]]... and was inspired by Gustavo's own mother!) and its sequels, a mother who keeps overly protective and controlling of her two children who remained at her home, even as they're teens or adults. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKb5GhtDGRo One scene]] has Hermínia going to the club in her nightgown (though it fit the pajama party-themed event) to make her youngest daughter leave - by taking over the sound system to tell humiliating things about the daughter.
* Lowell from ''Film/MostLikelyToMurder2018'' was accepted into Stanford, but his mom wouldn't let him go because she wanted to keep him around.
* In the 1994 documentary ''Crumb'', Seminal underground comic artist [[Creator/RobertCrumb R. Crumb]] and his brothers describe growing up terrorized by their harridan of a mother. The boys' traumatic childhoods manifest in Crumb's comics, which become increasingly fetishized and twisted. Charles Crumb, the eldest brother, committed suicide mere months after filming. His mother's response? "How could you do this to me!?"
* In ''Film/{{Deranged}}'', Ezra's mother Amanda is a domineering [[TheFundamentalist religious fanatic]] who indoctrinates him to believe that all other women are sinners. When she dies, her son completely loses his mind and becomes a GraveRobbing SerialKiller.

* ''Film/DuckButter'': Sergio and Nima both don't get along with their mothers well, resenting how they tried to control them in different ways which clashed with their desires.