Grounded for Life

2001

Seasons & Episodes

  • 5
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  • 2
  • 1
  • 0

7.5| 0h30m| TV-PG| en
Synopsis

Right out of high school, Sean Finnerty got his girlfriend Claudia pregnant. Now she’s his wife, and at just 32, he’s somehow found himself with 14-year-old daughter Lily, two little boys, and a constant struggle between his need to be responsible and his desperate desire to be irresponsible. His judgmental father Walt and devil-may-care brother Eddie are no help at all. When they all get together, stories always start to fly. Of course, Sean’s family will never let him finish a story; they interrupt, they debate, they derail, they defend themselves; just like any good family would.

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Carsey-Werner-Mandabach Productions

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Cubussoli Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!
Lovesusti The Worst Film Ever
Contentar Best movie of this year hands down!
Fatma Suarez The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful
cmobrien84 I really liked this show back in the day and I think it's still good today plus I think the mom is really fit for an older bird! The show follows a lower/medium income urban family of 5 with a witty renegade uncle and jovial aloof grandfather making constant appearances. Originally airing on fox in 2001 it last for a few seasons then canceled and picked up by ABC family for the last of the series. Good acting for laugh track comedy, it kind of reminds me of a modern, more slap stick version of Roseanne. Ground for Life hits on all the stereotypical family dilemma but does it with pretty high production value given the nature of the show. Plus Donald Logue is a top notch character actor in his own right!
elshikh4 I think that working as a creator for TV shows is such a very easy job sometimes. Just look at this one to understand the picture : let's fill the air with anything.. in fact the audience loved (Seinfeld), it was great sitcom about bunch of people whom don't try to learn from their own mistakes so let's make them a family with some of the gross-out taste of (Malcolm In The Middle), OK, and we've had a lot of shows about a middle class family's dairy, so what about a family with a little bit poorness, OK, then let's make them some losers, OK, and for making something totally new let's use a strange technique to be that unique; it's the flashbacks style to present the comedy, then what ? Nothing.. It's a family show so it'll be about family's moralities and stuff, so how about the casting ? Hey.. Put anyone.. As when the audience hear the laughing they'll gonna crack all over anyway ! They desperately need a pastime not a serious anything !! I think that was the exact way the creators of this show thought. So the result was that trash sitcom. It's not well grounded…It's hastily grounded for sure as they were unserious, but with making their show, NOT through it ! Let alone that uncle ! OHH he is so bad, not the personality; as we all love the family's bad uncle, but I mean the personality of its actor ! Actually (Kevin Corrigan) has no idea about acting.. So not to mention acting a comedy ! He is so pathetic with that totally indifferent performance, being capable of destroying any possible good line or nice situation. You would feel it too with (Griffin Frazen), and that unfunny grandfather (Richard Riehle), maybe it's the direction which left everybody do whatever they want and to tell you the truth...What they wanted turned out to be so silly thing ! Despite the beauty of (Lynsey Bartilson), and her mom (Megyn Price), plus some comic efforts from (Donal Logue)...I felt that there is nothing here to watch or to entertain. Even the opening credits was awful !
pumpkinsteph This show was just recently added to ABC Family's afternoon lineup, along with shows like Full House, Boy Meets World, and Gilmore Girls. I had never ever heard of it before, but I figured it would be halfway decent since it was in a lineup with other great shows. However, I don't like this show at all. The story lines are never realistic, I don't find the material funny at all, and the characters are just plain pathetic, especially the role of Lily. She's the teenager in the story and her character is ridiculous. I like for TV shows to be somewhat realistic; this one doesn't even come close. Don't waste your time watching this show.
thiu This is one of the few shows that i really look forward to. its really funny and the characters seem so real. Not only because of how they act but also the way they look. They look like people not super model types.The show is so refreshing and it doesn't try to emulate any other show that it just makes me feel happy watching them and their antics.