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The Pathological Optimist

Name: The Pathological Optimist
Released: Sep 29, 2017
Rating: 65.75

2017 · 1 hr 33 min

In the center of the recent Tribeca Film Festival scandal surrounding his film VAXXED: From Cover-up to Controversy stands Andrew Wakefield, discredited and stripped of his medical license for his infamous study suggesting a link between the MMR vaccine, bowel disease, and autism. THE PATHOLOGICAL OPTIMIST takes us into the inner sanctum of Wakefield and his family from 2011- 2016 as he fights for his day in court in a little known defamation case against the British Medical Journal. Wakefield attempts to clear his name as the media-appointed Father of the Anti-vaccine movement. Director Miranda Bailey weaves a delicate portrait of a man who is THE PATHOLOGICAL OPTIMIST utilizing a never-before-seen, full access look at the man at the center of one of the biggest medical and media controversies of our times.

Biography Documentary

Release year

2017

Release date

September 29, 2017

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Genres

BiographyDocumentary

Runtime

1 hr 33 min

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The Film Arcade

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Budget

$198K

Estimated Profit

-$288K

Est Profit Inflation Adj

-$379K

Cast Salaries

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Box Office

Box Office Reported grosses are direct imports. Inflation-adjusted values use imported adjusted totals when available, otherwise they use the yearly U.S. CPI table you maintain in WordPress.

Inflation-adjusted values are shown in 2025 dollars when CPI data is available.

Category	Year	Reported	Inflation Adjusted
Domestic Domestic theatrical box office gross.	2017	$11,222	$14,738
International International theatrical box office gross.	2017	$0	$0
Worldwide Combined worldwide theatrical box office gross.	2017	$11,222	$14,363

Earnings / Profitability

Estimated revenues and expenses for films based on currently imported reported and estimated fields. Inflation-adjusted values use the CPI table when direct adjusted values are not present in the export.

Category	Year	Reported	Inflation Adjusted
Revenues
Theatrical Net Revenue Estimated distributor theatrical revenue using the year-based ScreenProfits finance model.	2017	$5,611 (est)	$7,369 (est)
Digital Rentals Estimated digital rental revenue from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model.	2017	$1,901	$2,496
Digital Purchases Estimated digital purchase revenue from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model.	2017	$1,757	$2,307
Physical Rentals Estimated physical rental revenue from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model.	2017	$681	$894
Physical Purchases Physical Purchases: DVD $990, BluRay $552	2017	$1,543	$2,026
TV & Streaming Revenue Estimated ancillary TV and streaming revenue from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model.	2017	$2,230 (est)	$2,928 (est)
Total Revenues Total of the revenue streams currently available or derived in this ScreenProfits profitability view.	2017	$13,721	$18,020
Expenses
Budget Production budget.	2017	$198,000	N/A
Print & Advertising (P&A) P&A Estimated using Machine Learning sourceSource: ML P&A estimate (peer+ridge)Machine-learned P&A estimate based on peer comps and regression inputs. Reestimate Prior Estimate \| Covid Mult: 1 \| Peer Count: 0 \| Reg Box Pred: $41,887 \| Reg Main Pred: $198,905	2017	$80,000 (est)	$105,067 (est)
Participations Talent and producer participation payouts. Parsed from source context when available, otherwise estimated from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model.	2017	$0 (est)	$0 (est)
Residuals Residual and related distribution expense line. Parsed from source context when available, otherwise estimated from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model.	2017	$206 (est)	$270 (est)
Interest & Overhead Interest and overhead allocation. Parsed from source context when available, otherwise estimated from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model.	2017	$23,760 (est)	$31,205 (est)
Total Expenses Total of budget, P&A, participations, residuals, and interest/overhead in this ScreenProfits profitability view.	2017	$301,966	$396,584
Movie Net Profit or Loss Estimated movie net profit/loss from the current ScreenProfits revenue and expense model.	2017	$-288,245	$-378,564

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