Why Yankees fan David Duchovny opted to explore grief through the Red Sox

The “X-Files” actor wrote, directed and starred in the movie based on his novel “Bucky F*cking Dent.”

As a childhood New York Yankees fan who grew up in the East Village and used to cry if Mel Stottlemyre lost a start, David Duchovny might seem an unlikely candidate to write, direct and star in a movie about a Boston Red Sox die-hard enduring the Curse of the Bambino. But the Yanks of his youth, the 63-year-old actor and filmmaker will quickly clarify, were more like those snake-bitten Sox than you’d think.

The darkly comic drama is set against the 1978 American League pennant race, which culminated with light-hitting Yankees shortstop Bucky Dent powering the homer that sent Boston to another titleless fall. By tethering a dying man’s fate to a famously doomed team, “Reverse the Curse” wields defeat on the diamond as a metaphor for mortality’s inevitability.

But as Duchovny framed his father-son story against Boston’s 1978 campaign, he embarked on a losing streak of his own. First,led him to shelve the project before he figured out a way to work that curse-breaking title into the narrative. More frustratingly, production companies played hardball when it came to financing the movie — then titled “Bucky F*cking Dent” — out of concern over the international box office.

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