Pretty obvious if you ask me.
Her wimpy squeak of a husband somehow sired a sexy,hung stud,but alas,he's her son and she can't lust after him,and here she is stuck with squeak-wimp.
Same as a father treating his daughter in a similar way because he married someone plain and frumpy but the daughter turned out a beauty,however she's his daughter of course and he's pissed that so many boys can lust after her yet he can't.
Some parents(who undoubtedly had a mega f**kton of issues to begin with already)can get royally incensed if their opposite-sex child turns out more attractive than their spouse.
I turned my life around,and now I'm back where I started.

They were trying to show how Dirk, like so many other porn stars, come from dysfunctional and abusive homes and why they turn to porn.
Dirk ran away because there was no love lost and he was sick of living there and dealing with her ****.
So he goes to Jack to find a new home and family that accepts him into their fold or gives him what he sees is a better offer that he cannot refuse.
The writing here is weak and lame because we don't really see what the motivation was behind her being such an angry and hateful bitch.
There is only so much time in a movie and all they want to show is how Dirk runs away from an abusive mother rather than show why she has or what started those meltdowns.
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His mom came off as an emotionally abusive Narcissist.
Kiss my black ass! Toodles!

She was a nasty and domineering miserable ****.
You've seen Guy Standeven in something because the man was in everything.

I'd say she was classic bipolar with some scizo effective tendencies.

In psychoanalytic analysis, the Jocasta complex is the incestuous sexual desire of a mother towards her son.
Raymond de Saussure introduced the term in 1920 by way of analogy to its logical converse in psychoanalysis, the Oedipus complex, and it may be used to cover different degrees of attachment,including domineering but asexual mother love something perhaps particularly prevalent with an intelligent son and an absent/weak father figure.
Whose idea was it for the word "Lisp" to have an "S" in it?

Not everything needs to be diagnosed. Some people are just beep

The scene with Eddie's mother rang true the most. The only difference between his and mine was that even if I paid for something she considered it hers because it was in her house.

I assumed she was menopausal.

Surprised no one mentioned this as it seems really clear to me Dad wasn't equipped like Dirk.
Not that it's all her motivation (or she wants him or anything like that), as she has moments of clarity after blowups, but watch it again and see it through that lens it all seems to sync.

What exactly was wrong with Eddie's mother?
She was a very unpleasant woman.

psycho

She failed as a mother and his dad definitely failed to be a role model as he obviously is a spineless coward who lets his wife do whatever h*** she pleases with either him or their son.
The reality however is that she actually had a good point. Her son really was a bum who couldn't pass high school, couldn't hold a job and didn't even have a good girlfriend with which to settle down with. The girl he was banging WAS a slut who slept with others and he was just another one in the line. Basically he lived an aimless life working menial jobs and dreaming about fame. Eventually he still ended up in a life of crime despite getting a chance with porn.
She was certainly to blame for him turning out like that and I doubt she encouraged him much or gave him much support. His dad? Probably saw him as a mistake as well as his marriage with her. He should have stood up for the boy.
Bottom line is he was lucky to get a break in porn. Also lucky Jack Horner took him back and gave him another chance.
Pretty much this.

She failed as a mother and his dad definitely failed to be a role model as he obviously is a spineless coward who lets his wife do whatever h*** she pleases with either him or their son.
The reality however is that she actually had a good point. Her son really was a bum who couldn't pass high school, couldn't hold a job and didn't even have a good girlfriend with which to settle down with. The girl he was banging WAS a slut who slept with others and he was just another one in the line. Basically he lived an aimless life working menial jobs and dreaming about fame. Eventually he still ended up in a life of crime despite getting a chance with porn.
She was certainly to blame for him turning out like that and I doubt she encouraged him much or gave him much support. His dad? Probably saw him as a mistake as well as his marriage with her. He should have stood up for the boy.
Bottom line is he was lucky to get a break in porn. Also lucky Jack Horner took him back and gave him another chance.
I agree that Eddie/Dirk was a slug. I don't know too many people who say when they are kids "I want to grow up and be a drug abusing porn star".
But that's usually a result of bad parenting. Those parents had issues.

She failed as a mother and his dad definitely failed to be a role model as he obviously is a spineless coward who lets his wife do whatever h*** she pleases with either him or their son.
The reality however is that she actually had a good point. Her son really was a bum who couldn't pass high school, couldn't hold a job and didn't even have a good girlfriend with which to settle down with. The girl he was banging WAS a slut who slept with others and he was just another one in the line. Basically he lived an aimless life working menial jobs and dreaming about fame. Eventually he still ended up in a life of crime despite getting a chance with porn.
She was certainly to blame for him turning out like that and I doubt she encouraged him much or gave him much support. His dad? Probably saw him as a mistake as well as his marriage with her. He should have stood up for the boy.
Bottom line is he was lucky to get a break in porn. Also lucky Jack Horner took him back and gave him another chance.

Bitter and angry alcoholic.
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From Diggler's mom screaming about her son's sexual exploits the film cuts to his sad, wimpy dad sitting on the bed and listening to the argument through the wall it could not have been made more obvious what her hysteria was all about.
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PT Anderson was getting out some anger towards his mother. I read in a book that she was a very mean woman towards him.
His dad Ernie was a self involved man and a lot of Robards character in Magnolia is based on him.

Like Thora Birch's dad, who ironically was a porn star and was in Deep Throat (along with her mom).

I agree with this. It's like the overbearing fathers who have fixations on their teenage daughters (which I always find disturbing and probably subconsciously psychosexual). That was what she seemed like to me.

I think she is one of those mothers who have an unnatural fixation on their sons in spite of having a husband. She sounds like the other woman and it's truly sickening because there are real women that behave like this with their sons.

This might just be me, but I had a feeling that Eddie's dad had his own "little whore." This would explain why he doesn't join in the vicious scolding and why Ed's mom was so bitter.

She seemed borderline or bipolar or perhaps alcoholic OR just a horrible mother. The seen when she is screaming and booting him from the house is painful to watch.

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