After a friendly talk with her eccentric, open-minded mother, Olive comes up with a plan to get everything finally out in the open.

Her father left soon after she was born, leaving Cassie with her overbearing, eccentric mother who worked as a cook at a nearby high school.

As the only child of an eccentric mother, he possesses solid family values and a strong work ethic.

She is there to attend the "commitment ceremony" for her eccentric mother and a local billionaire.

Lauren had an eccentric mother and an abstracted father.

Ms. Bullock's character is a Louisiana-born actress whose eccentric mother won't speak to her.

Some children survive eccentric mothers just fine.

My eccentric mother, weak-eyed from childhood, who "saw men as trees walking," refused to wear her spectacles in the garden.

The wildly eccentric mother described in "Running With Scissors" has since had a stroke.

The two artists have much in common, beginning with the fact that both have used their eccentric but star-quality mothers as subjects of their work.