sentences:  Over the next few years, James searches for his true self, ending up at "The CIA" – the Culinary Institute of America.His eccentric mother Elise (Bernadette Peters), still upset that her husband left her and James, is on an endless search for her inner self and has commitment issues of her own.She spends her time with a series of lovers who don't speak English, in the "International House of Boyfriends".