Mariam lives in a kolba on the outskirts of Herat with her embittered mother.

Most of them, starting with Emily's embittered, divorced mother (Patricia Englund), are caricatured in the writing and in performance.

Katherine, for her part, must confront her own embittered mother, played feistily by Sylvia Sidney.

All we know is that the household consists of Charlene, Ronnie's embittered mother, and Philip, her other son.

Later, Halley's embittered mother (Allison Janney) lets fly with an expletive.

Her embittered mother used to tell Jane that she was going to turn on the gas jets in the middle of the night and kill them both.

When first seen, Lilya is living in comfortable squalor with a tough, embittered mother (Ljubov Agapova), who barely tolerates her.

This biography shows that the genius of the prolific Belgian-born novelist was perhaps fueled by his resentment toward his embittered mother.

"My Russia," her depressed and embittered mother would tell her, "is dead."

But the film's larger story is one of discovery, as the couple's Western-educated daughter returns to Hong Kong from London and resumes contact with her embittered mother.