Pay cabler is stepping up development of "The United States of Tara," a half-hour single-camera laffer from DreamWorks Television that's based on an original Steven Spielberg idea.

Show will revolve around an ordinary-seeming wife and mother of two teenage kids -- who also happens to suffer from dissociative identity (formerly multiple personality) disorder.

Skein will explore how a dysfunctional family, including Tara's working-class husband, copes with her various personalities, which emerge when she's under stress.

Pilot seg is expected to show off at least two of Tara's alter egos, a lascivious teen girl and a macho adult man. More personalities will emerge throughout the life of the series.

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