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Reverse the Curse

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Reverse the Curse

Released Jun 14, 2024

1h 45m

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Reverse the Curse follows Ted (Logan Marshall-Green), a failed writer-turned-Yankees Stadium peanut slinger who moves back home after learning of the failing health of his Red Sox-obsessed father, Marty (David Duchovny). While Marty strives to make amends for his past, his health drops abruptly whenever his beloved Sox lose a game. To keep his dad's spirits up, Ted takes matters into his own hands and manufactures a winning streak with the help of a crew of dad's neighborhood pals. In the process, Ted strikes up a bond with Marty's charming "Death Specialist," Marianna (Stephanie Beatriz), and the prospect of a new love reignites his ambitions. An ode to the bond between father and son, this warm and witty film demonstrates how life truly belongs to the losers, and that the longshots are the ones worth betting on.

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Brian Tallerico

RogerEbert.com

Duchovny the director never bothers to ground his melodrama in something that feels real, missing the target on the period in which it’s set and an honest understanding of the people who live and die on the success and failure of their favorite teams.

Rated: 1.5/4

Jun 14, 2024

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Glenn Kenny

New York Times

Duchovny’s smarts are commendable, theoretically, but the movie falls short of compelling. And for all the novelistic details that he packs in, “Reverse the Curse” moves at the pace of a self-defeating snail.

Jun 14, 2024

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Richard Roeper

Chicago Sun-Times

Even though that ending includes an epilogue we could see coming like a hanging change-up right down the middle, you can’t help but choke up...

Rated: 3/4

Jun 13, 2024

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Erik Childress

Movie Madness Podcast

Material that likely plays better on the page than on the screen with too many gaps in its logic and ends too flatly to land with the emotional arc it seeks.

Rated: 2/4

Nov 14, 2024

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Carla Hay

Culture Mix

Reverse the Curse awkwardly fumbles its attempts to balance sarcasm and sappiness. This comedy/drama has too much phony-sounding and lackluster dialogue in portraying a volatile father-son relationship affected by the 1978 World Series.

Jul 11, 2024

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Dana Barbuto

Boston Movie News

Duchovny plays a cantankerous cancer patient, giving new meaning to the term diehard Red Sox fan.

Rated: B+

Jul 3, 2024

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Alice F

A great sports movie, in the way of Rudy, Brian's Song, The Pride of the Yankees- sports is drama, and this movie delivered drama and humor and was entirely enjoyable. Sports was the center of the movie but the human element was the part that drove it from start to finish. A shout out to anyone from Massachusetts if you don't watch it then you are just stupid. Thank you David.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/18/25

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Emanuel G

Good sports ball. Much wow. Very bases.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

10/16/24

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Omar B

Journey of love, laughter, pain and honesty. Movie reminds us that family may hurt us but we always have to have their backs when they need us the most and to be brave in order to avoid such life mistakes from repeating themselves but can we truly stop the same mistakes the ones before us have made?

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

10/11/24

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Audience Member

Sweet. Profound. Funny. Tragic. Hopeful. It's a tender yet heavy masterpiece. Well done all around.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

09/30/24

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Les N

Harrowing ending. Don't watch if you are depressed.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

08/12/24

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William W

Waste of time and money, the son looks as old as the Dad, would’ve been more interesting if they were lovers but I doubt the actors in those roles could pull it off. The accent and the wig on the son were ridiculous and I say this as someone who wants more baseball films. Thumbs down.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

06/15/24

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Reverse the Curse follows Ted (Logan Marshall-Green), a failed writer-turned-Yankees Stadium peanut slinger who moves back home after learning of the failing health of his Red Sox-obsessed father, Marty (David Duchovny). While Marty strives to make amends for his past, his health drops abruptly whenever his beloved Sox lose a game. To keep his dad's spirits up, Ted takes matters into his own hands and manufactures a winning streak with the help of a crew of dad's neighborhood pals. In the process, Ted strikes up a bond with Marty's charming "Death Specialist," Marianna (Stephanie Beatriz), and the prospect of a new love reignites his ambitions. An ode to the bond between father and son, this warm and witty film demonstrates how life truly belongs to the losers, and that the longshots are the ones worth betting on.

Director: David Duchovny
Producer: Jordan Yale Levine, Jordan Beckerman, Tiffany Kuzon, David Duchovny
Screenwriter: David Duchovny
Distributor: Vertical
Production Co: Yale Productions
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jun 14, 2024, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Jun 14, 2024
Runtime: 1h 45m

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