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SCREEN PROFITS REPORT

Whose Life Is It Anyway?

1981 · John Badham · Lawrence P. Bachman · 1 hr 59 min

Ken Harrison is an artist who makes sculptures. One day he is involved in a car accident, and is paralyzed from his neck down. All he can do is talk, and he wants to die. In hospital he make friends with some of the staff, and they support him when he goes to trial to be allowed to die.

Cast Salaries

Cast Salaries

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Cast Year Salary Inflation adjusted salary Notes
Richard Dreyfuss 1981 $760,219 $2,692,129 (est)
John Cassavetes 1981 $234,508 $830,452 (est)
Christine Lahti 1981 $213,906 $757,496 (est)
Bob Balaban 1981 $412,975 $1,462,449 (est)
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.

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Category Year Reported Inflation Adjusted
Domestic Domestic theatrical box office gross. 1981 $8,206,145 $29,060,045
International International theatrical box office gross. 1981 $0 $0
Worldwide Combined worldwide theatrical box office gross. 1981 $8,206,145 $28,319,777
Earnings / Profitability

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.

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Category Year Reported Inflation Adjusted
Revenues
Theatrical Net Revenue Estimated distributor theatrical revenue using the year-based ScreenProfits finance model. 1981 $3,733,796 (est) $13,222,320 (est)
Digital Rentals Estimated digital rental revenue from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model. 1981 $0 $0
Digital Purchases Estimated digital purchase revenue from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model. 1981 $0 $0
Physical Rentals Estimated physical rental revenue from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model. 1981 $206,291 $730,530
Physical Purchases Physical Purchases: VHS $69,548 1981 $69,548 $246,285
TV & Streaming Revenue Estimated ancillary TV and streaming revenue from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model. 1981 $2,167,854 (est) $7,676,921 (est)
Total Revenues Total of the revenue streams currently available or derived in this ScreenProfits profitability view. 1981 $6,177,489 $21,876,057
Expenses
Budget Production budget. 1981 $11,500,000 $39,687,019
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: 3 | Peer Median: $2,000,000 | Reg Box Pred: $2,764,064 | Reg Main Pred: $2,822,995 1981 $2,399,000 (est) $8,495,469 (est)
Participations Talent and producer participation payouts. Parsed from source context when available, otherwise estimated from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model. 1981 $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. 1981 $103,164 (est) $365,330 (est)
Interest & Overhead Interest and overhead allocation. Parsed from source context when available, otherwise estimated from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model. 1981 $1,276,500 (est) $4,520,411 (est)
Total Expenses Total of budget, P&A, participations, residuals, and interest/overhead in this ScreenProfits profitability view. 1981 $15,278,664 $53,068,228
Movie Net Profit or Loss Estimated movie net profit/loss from the current ScreenProfits revenue and expense model. 1981 $-9,101,176 $-31,192,172
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