Reverse the Curse follows Ted (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 (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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00:00 Your father has declined to any medical intervention.
00:04 You didn't know?
00:05 I just found out recently.
00:07 When?
00:08 Very recently, like when you just said it.
00:11 He was diagnosed months ago.
00:13 We're a close family.
00:17 Really nice of you to come be with your dad.
00:18 How old are you, Teddy?
00:19 33.
00:20 There's something too old and too young about you at the same time, you know what I mean?
00:24 No, I don't.
00:25 So, how you been doing?
00:27 Aside from the cancer, terrific.
00:29 I'm an unpublished loser.
00:32 How long do you plan to stay?
00:33 Until one of us kills the other.
00:34 Mute.
00:35 You don't have to say the word mute.
00:36 Just pressing the button.
00:37 Mute.
00:38 Mute.
00:39 Tuesday.
00:40 Dad's mental and physical health is literally dependent on whether the socks win or lose.
00:45 Socks lost again.
00:46 So, I am creating a safe zone where the socks can't lose.
00:50 I've even got the boy who delivers papers in this bubble.
00:53 Go socks!
00:54 Curse over cancer.
00:56 That way, it gives us some time to, you know, keep him healthy until his socks get together.
01:01 You gonna get dressed?
01:02 You uptight naked in front of your father?
01:05 Just perfectly respectable break you got there, son.
01:12 Austin is up over the Yankees.
01:13 It's a party!
01:14 It's a party!
01:15 Remember my adopted daughter, Ted?
01:16 I'm not adopted.
01:17 I've looked back upon my life and thought that what I've done hasn't amounted to much.
01:22 I see that I wasn't thinking about him, Mother.
01:25 You thinking about the socks.
01:27 Well, we deserve more from you.
01:29 He's been a victim.
01:31 He's been a scapegoat.
01:33 Now he just needs you.
01:34 Don't let me die, Ted.
01:35 Don't let me die.
01:36 Come with me.
01:37 Do you smell that?
01:38 It smells like baseball.
01:39 There are a million ways to tell a life story.
01:40 As a comedy, as a tragedy, as a fairy tale.
01:41 Our baseball teams keep you alive.
01:42 He's trying to tell you his story in his way.
01:43 Baseball is the only game that death is jealous of.
02:08 Baseball defeats time.
02:09 Maybe baseball has the possibility of going on forever.
02:13 This is getting to be your neck of the woods, outside Boston.
02:17 No, I've never even been there, actually.
02:19 What?
02:20 Why are you a Sox fan?
02:21 I like rubbing people the wrong way.
02:22 [Music]