But Akeelah's overworked single mother, Tanya (Angela Bassett), objects to her daughter's obsession with what she regards as a game.

Tess returns from the club-walking festivities to her dreary home, where we meet her cheerful but overworked mother, Joan.

He sits eating as his overworked mother, Maureen, gets ready for work.

The very selectivity of Miss Kedzierzawska's background details gives "Crows" a haunting strangeness, especially when the girl confronts her overworked and exhausted mother.

And there's your mother, overworked and underpaid if I'm to believe my ears, and in need of a skivvy.

I guess that right now, I'm your typical, overworked single mother, if you know what I mean.

Would such a drug be a cure for shift workers and jet lagged travelers and overworked mothers with bills to pay and reports to file?

Dominic's encounters with an elusive father, an overworked mother, transvestites at a raunchy bar and, particularly, with an ex-convict who preaches a gospel of machismo tend to be blunt.

Sheryl Hoover (Toni Collette) is an overworked mother of two children who lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Beverly felt a twinge of panic, fearing that his sudden appearance had been the delusions of a heartsick, overworked mother.