Free Radicals

2004 | Drama, Romance, Foreign Language

Synopsis

A young Austrian survives the crash of a commercial airliner. Six years later, she's a clerk, a mother, and happy. Then she dies in a car accident. Over the next year, her daughter goes through various medical blood tests, her husband is having an affair with her best friend, her sister trades sex for shelter, her brother is tiptoeing around a friendship with an emotionally-locked clerk whose mother is lonely, and an unpopular high-school student has bad skin. The daughter has her eye on a certain boy--the very one who was driving the car in the fatal crash. In happenstance are there patterns? In life is there meaning?

Scores

Overall Score
29.3
Popularity Percentile (Year)
16.9%
Box Office Percentile (Year)
26.6%
Review Aggregate
61.8

Critic Consensus

60.0% Fresh • 15 critic reviews

Critic reception is mixed, with 60% of 15 logged reviews marked Fresh. Across reviews, critics repeatedly emphasize emotional, gritty, visually striking. Common reservations focus on execution consistency, even when reviewers praise standout elements.

emotionalgrittyvisually strikingdarkcharacter-drivenromantic

Cast

CastYearReported SalaryInflation AdjustedNotes
N/A

Aggregated Reviews

Rotten Tomatoes critic score63.0
RT critic review count16
Rotten Tomatoes audience score61.0
RT audience rating count500
IMDb rating6.1
IMDb votes570

Box Office ?

CategoryYearReportedInflation Adjusted
Domestic2004$1,443$2,396
International2004$78,928$131,073
Worldwide2004$80,371$133,469

Earnings / Profitability

Estimated net revenues and net expenses for films based on reported and estimated numbers. This income statement should be considered most viable for the first 24 months after the inital movie's release (ie after most lucrative pay windows).
CategoryYearReportedInflation Adjusted
Revenues
Theatrical Net Revenue2004$32,293$53,627
Digital Rentals ?2004$1,000$1,661
Digital Purchases ?2004$0$0
Physical Rentals ?2004$75,000$124,550
Physical Purchases ?2004$157,000$260,725
TV & Streaming Revenue2004$75,000$124,550
Total Revenues2004$340,293$565,113
Expenses
Budget ?2004$250,000 (est)$415,167 (est)
Print & Advertising (P&A) ?2004$80,000 (est)$132,853 (est)
Participations2004$7,000$11,625
Residuals ?2004$19,000$31,553
Interest & Overhead2004$50,000$83,033
Total Expenses2004$406,000$674,231
Movie Net Profit or Loss2004$-65,707$-109,118

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