Consider what happened a couple of years ago to one real-life family whose members are still working out their conflicting needs.

She sings and does pratfalls, surrounded by a fictionalized version of her real-life family.

Since real-life family and observers chime in over the end credits, perhaps the filmmakers were thinking the same thing.

The main characters on the show are also loosely based on Romano's and Rosenthal's real-life family members.

Several members of Brown's real-life family have appeared on the show.

Life with The Lyons is unusual in that it featured a real-life American family.

Q: Have you met the real-life family this story is based on?

However, these comedies had nothing to do with the real-life family or the events they lived.

Surely Ms. Wilson's real-life family had no trouble welcoming Mr. Hanks?

Welfare reform is a perfect example of how policies carried out in the name of "family values" can destroy real-life families.