Maddie's Secret

Comedian, writer, and actor John Early's critically acclaimed directorial debut starring himself as Maddie, a plucky dishwasher who leaps to viral superstardom at a trendy food content creation company, where mounting professional pressures threaten to reawaken a hidden secret from her troubled past. By day, bright-eyed, kind-hearted Maddie is a dishwasher at Gourmaybe, a trendy Los Angeles food content creation company, and at night makes scrumptious vegetarian dishes, captured in videos by her devoted husband Jake (Eric Rahill). When one of the videos goes viral and she is thrust into the spotlight, the pressure heralds the inopportune return of a long-dormant struggle with an eating disorder. Channelling 1950s melodrama through a camp 1980s movie of the week aesthetic, Maddie's Secret is a sympathetic portrayal of a woman trying to conceal her eating disorder and a riotous satirical commentary on contemporary influencer culture.