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Released
1992 · FILM

Radio Flyer

A young boy builds a flying machine from his toy wagon to save his brother and escape the horrors of an abusive home, guided by the magic of imagination and the hope of a better tomorrow.

“Powered by imagination.”

Directed by
Richard Donner
Written by
David Mickey Evans
Runtime
114 min
Drama

Synopsis

A father reflects on his childhood, recalling the time he and his younger brother relocated to a new town with their mother, her new husband, and their dog, Shane. After the younger brother suffers physical abuse at the hands of their stepfather, Mike decides to transform their toy trolley, the "Radio Flyer," into a plane in an effort to fly him to safety.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 24

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Stuart BairdShot by Laszlo KovacsScored by Hans ZimmerDesigned by J Michael Riva

Box Office

1992 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.1× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$4.7M

Budget$35.0M
Worldwide gross$4.7M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $1.9M — 42% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $2.4M — 51% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 940 theaters

Also known as

  • Flug ins Abenteuerde
  • Le Rêve de Bobbyfr
  • Il grande voloit

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