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When I was in sixth grade, our science class began its health unit, which was all about the changing body. This portion of the curriculum, naturally, came with plenty of giggles and whispers. Oh, the days when something as simple as the words \u201cbreasts\u201d and \u201cpenis\u201d were enough to sustain an entire day\u2019s worth of joy, when the numbers 80085 viewed on an upside-down calculator could illicit chuckles from the corner of a room. The only thing better was when, one Friday, our teacher rolled out the TV \u2014 sitting atop that old, rickety cart on wheels \u2014 to show us a little made-for-television movie called, \u201cFor the Love of Nancy.\u201d<\/p>

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Our teacher explained that the film would serve as our introduction to a unit on eating disorders. In 2006, I felt I was already deeply familiar with the concept. Anorexia and bulimia were in nearly every tabloid headline, splashed across the supermarket checkout aisles. Two years after Mary-Kate Olsen checked herself into rehab for anorexia nervosa, eating disorders turned a hypercritical eye toward every young starlet. \u201cExtreme diets: How Lindsay and Nicole got so skinny \u2014 but have they gone too far?\u201d the honorable Us Weekly wondered. I assumed that \u201cFor the Love of Nancy\u201d wouldn\u2019t tell me anything I didn\u2019t already know. But when the film got started, I quickly began to understand that there was much more to these disorders than my 12-year-old brain could comprehend from a sensational gossip story. They were complicated, secretive, compulsive and potentially deadly, and the film\u2019s gripping melodrama was a stark contrast to any glamorous tabloid portrayal.<\/p>\n

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(Magnolia Pictures)<\/span> Kate Berlant and John Early in \u201cMaddie\u2019s Secret\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n

Comedian John Early\u2019s directorial debut, \u201cMaddie\u2019s Secret,\u201d is both a parody of and tribute to films like \u201cFor the Love of Nancy,\u201d of which there are many \u2014 so many that Early had a trove of tropes to pull from, which he moves through with all the dexterity of a TV movie connoisseur. In the film, Early stars as Maddie Ralph, a mousy, modest blonde working as a dishwasher at a Bon App\u00e9tit-style test kitchen called GourMaybe alongside her best friend, Deena (Early\u2019s frequent collaborator, Kate Berlant).<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s as if, when Early dons Maddie\u2019s blonde wig, complete with perfectly placed flyaways that droop into his face, he is neither himself nor the character, but every woman.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Maddie adores food and cooking, inspired by the world around her to create flavorful new vegetarian recipes she shares with Deena and her adoring boyfriend, Jake (Eric Rahill). Despite Deena\u2019s reassurance and Jake\u2019s championing, Maddie can\u2019t see herself as one of GourMaybe\u2019s recipe developers. She\u2019s too soft-spoken, too inexperienced, too . . . Maddie! That is, until one day, when Maddie\u2019s video detailing her \u201cmajor breakfast sandwich-y hangover vibe\u201d tortang talong recipe goes viral. Suddenly, Maddie gets the chance to step in front of the camera at work. But just as soon as hundreds of new recipe ideas spring into her head, so do all of her teenage insecurities, reminding her of an adolescence spent grappling with bulimia.<\/p>\n

\u201cMaddie\u2019s Secret\u201d is the rare comedic parody that can shift into total, gut-wrenching sincerity with the snap of a finger. At one moment, Early delivers a line with such studied assurance and casual wit that its punchline hits harder than any straightforward joke from a comedy in recent memory; the next, his eyes will fill with steely uncertainty, and his face will contort ever so slightly to reveal a depth beyond both Maddie\u2019s carefully constructed veneer and Early\u2019s satirical sensibilities. It\u2019s as if, when Early dons Maddie\u2019s blonde wig, complete with perfectly placed flyaways that droop into his face, he is neither himself nor the character, but every woman. Early has a masterful understanding of both melodrama\u2019s power and its inherent comedy. He sees the TV movie for all its multitude of artistic merits and real-life possibilities; how the form can touch the viewer like a painting can in a single glance, or stir something significant from the burdened soul. And like all great art does in one way or another, \u201cMaddie\u2019s Secret\u201d leads with its heart to create something unexpected and necessary, finding the point where humor and tragedy graze each other in passing, making a home there.<\/p>\n

One of the most brilliant aspects of \u201cMaddie\u2019s Secret\u201d is that one needn\u2019t be familiar with TV movies to find Early\u2019s film funny or entertaining. Here, it\u2019s as much about the specific subgenre as it is the characters, whose archetypal forms all exist in some media you\u2019ve seen before. The doting boyfriend, the overzealous best friend, the snide coworker, the absentee mother \u2014 played here by Kristen Johnston, whose character\u2019s name is ingeniously spelled \u201cBeverlee.\u201d They\u2019re all here, and they have as much overconfident swagger as a plucky young star on the Disney Channel.<\/p>\n

And then there\u2019s Early, who opens the film running through the streets on Maddie\u2019s morning jog to work. Aficionados will get a chuckle recognizing this sequence as a send-up of the many TV movies about eating disorders that begin the same way, with their star huffing and puffing across the sidewalks of suburbia without ever breaking a sweat. And there goes Los Angeles\u2019 sweetheart, Maddie Ralph, with Early perfectly made up in day drag, wig glued down tight and sweat-free, looking eerily like a \u201990s sitcom starlet trying to bridge the gap between television and film via the sadly outmoded movie of the week. Wave hello as she passes fruit stands with fresh mango and wheat-pasted street signs advertising erectile dysfunction medication with the eggplant emoji, finding inspiration for her soon-to-be-viral creation. Whoops! She\u2019s late, and the film makes a hysterical cut to Maddie in a near-dead sprint, trying to make it to work on time.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s only the first scene, but it\u2019s here where \u201cMaddie\u2019s Secret\u201d establishes a critical distinction between mockery and reverence. Early doesn\u2019t run like the Wayans brothers, dressed like women, trying to retrieve a stolen purse in \u201cWhite Chicks.\u201d (Though that is hilarious in its context, too.) The big joke is not that Early is a man in a wig, but that Early is so completely dedicated to his character that the point where he ends and Maddie begins is invisible from the film\u2019s very first frame. When the movie\u2019s trailer was first released earlier this spring, many of the commenters didn\u2019t quite understand it. Was this a drag movie? A trans story? A misogynistic parody of womanhood made by an undercover MAGA influencer? But the simple fact is that \u201cMaddie\u2019s Secret\u201d is none of those things. There is no gimmick to \u201cget,\u201d other than the film\u2019s loving lampoon of the TV movie. There is complete and total sincerity throughout. And it\u2019s that type of refreshing, radical earnestness that inspires a deeper conversation about the film\u2019s many virtues.<\/p>

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Anyone who knows Early\u2019s comedy knows that even his most eviscerating jokes have an undercurrent of love and hope. He wants the world to be a better place because he sees that it can be. I\u2019m not sure I\u2019ve ever heard a mean joke come out of his mouth that wasn\u2019t targeted at some monstrous politician who worked to deserve it. One of Early\u2019s other beloved characters, a Southern standup comedian named Vicky with a V who loves Maggiano\u2019s restaurants and frequently misplaces her denim jacket, shares a similar tenderheartedness to Maddie.<\/p>\n

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(Magnolia Pictures)<\/span> John Early in \u201cMaddie\u2019s Secret\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n

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Like all of those after-school specials, there\u2019s a distinct element of gratitude that helps the film transcend accusations of corniness or caricature. Early\u2019s women may be exaggerated portraits, but we live in a hyperbolic world. The mutual melodramas cancel each other out, resulting in a film with more truth than fiction.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Early brings an unmistakable maternal warmth to Vicky, who, as Southern as she is, is also an outspoken progressive. In 2020, Early even rolled her out in a video to endorse Bernie Sanders. \u201cI\u2019m a mom, and I love Bernie Sanders because I love my daughter,\u201d Early says in character. \u201cI want my daughter to live in a country where she\u2019s guaranteed quality healthcare, whether she\u2019s some fancy CEO with shoulder pads, or whether she\u2019s struggling to find work like her father.\u201d Cue Vicky looking into the camera lens.<\/p>\n

That Early is so charmed by the TV movie makes perfect sense. As sensational as they could be, most of them were made to didactically teach a lesson of some sort. They were films with intention, aired to millions of viewers in hopes that they\u2019d be entertained, yes, but also that they\u2019d be moved \u2014 that they might recognize some part of themselves forgotten for the sake of upward economic mobility and social striving. These movies were gritty and often absurd, sometimes going as far as to rubberneck at a tragedy to convey the immediacy of the moral at hand. As \u201cMaddie\u2019s Secret\u201d continues, and the titular Maddie falls deeper into the grasp of her titular secret, Early perfects that push and pull. When Maddie goes to rehab for her bulimia after a life-threatening relapse, Deena fakes an eating disorder to join her, telling Maddie that she had a dentist friend dye her teeth brown so the doctors would believe that she was making herself vomit. It\u2019s delightfully ridiculous, and Berlant and Early have years of experience playing off each other to generate the biggest laughs possible. But the humor is always amiably balanced with real, essential nuance, like the introduction of Maddie\u2019s rehab roomie, the sweet yet woeful Julie (Vanessa Bayer), whose arc is genuinely heartbreaking.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a wonderful verve to Early\u2019s filmmaking, allowing what would otherwise come off as breakneck tonal shifts to feel remarkably earned. The camerawork is dynamic and the film boasts some of the most beautiful, enchanting lighting I\u2019ve seen in any feature this year, maybe this decade so far. Almost every shot has a new, visually arresting setup, giving \u201cMaddie\u2019s Secret\u201d a style all its own \u2014 one that only makes Early\u2019s film all the more singular, an indie standout that casts a long, busty shadow over its studio-produced contemporaries.<\/p>\n

Early is so certain of everything he wants his debut film to be, and executes those desires with such consistent dexterity and style that watching \u201cMaddie\u2019s Secret\u201d is akin to seeing someone win the lottery. Each frame is meticulously constructed; every beat of the script brims with passion. One can\u2019t help but let their face spread into a big, goofy smile watching Early and his friends make something they\u2019re so clearly excited by, something they\u2019re proud of. Like all of those after-school specials, there\u2019s a distinct element of gratitude that helps the film transcend accusations of corniness or caricature. Early\u2019s women may be exaggerated portraits, but we live in a hyperbolic world. The mutual melodramas cancel each other out, resulting in a film with more truth than fiction.<\/p>\n

After \u201cFor the Love of Nancy\u201d ended\u00a0\u2014 when the credits rolled and tape was spit out of the VCR \u2014 my sixth-grade science teacher explained that the film was, in his opinion, one of the more accurate depictions of anorexia. At the time it was filmed, the movie\u2019s lead, Tracey Gold, was recovering from her own public battle with the same disorder. Her experience was key to helping the film feel as real as possible. I marveled at how much courage it must take to turn your real life into art, just for the chance that one person might see it and be impacted by it. \u201cMaddie\u2019s Secret\u201d might not have the same factual background as its selling point, but it\u2019s indisputably authentic nonetheless. This is Early\u2019s life: an affectionate homage to the women he\u2019s so inspired by, who have influenced his comedy and interests, who shaped him into the artist he is today. Sometimes it really is as simple as putting on the wig or turning on a movie to immerse yourself in an experience beyond your own.<\/p>

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