The Bear’s Molly Gordon companions with A24 to direct, star in, and write the highschool glory days comedy Peaked

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The Bear’s Molly Gordon companions with A24 to direct, star in, and write the highschool glory days comedy Peaked


The Bear and Theater Camp actress Molly Gordon is stepping behind the digital camera for the highschool glory days comedy Peaked.

Molly Gordon, Peaked, A24, comedy

Everyone remembers highschool in another way. For some, highschool was an period of overachievement, resulting in a false sense of how aggressive life can grow to be exterior the hallowed halls of judgment, ridicule, and misguided lust. For others, highschool is a specter of the previous higher left behind after years of jeers, rumors, and misinformation about how the world features. For The Bear‘s Molly Gordon (Theater Camp, Booksmart, You People), highschool is the setting of her new comedy mission with A24 known as Peaked.

As the movie’s title suggests, Peaked focuses on the glory days of promenade planning and experimentation and that fleeting time once we really feel invisible. According to the official logline, the movie follows “the two girls who traumatized you in high school as they try to relive their glory days at their 10-year reunion.” You keep in mind them. I actually do.

In addition to her starring position, Molly Gordon is co-writing Peaked along with her good friend Allie Levitan, who writes for Saturday Night Live. Gordon additionally directs the mission and produces alongside A24, David Hinojosa, and Zach Nutman of 2AM. Levitan government produces, with Topic Studios co-financing. Previously, Gordon directed and co-wrote the 2023 comedy Theater Camp, starring Gordon, Ben Platt, and Noah Galvin. Theater Camp tells the story of an eccentric workers of a rundown theater camp in upstate New York who should band along with the beloved founder’s bro-y son to maintain the camp afloat. Theater Camp gained the U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Ensemble earlier than getting acquired by Searchlight for $8 million. Theater Camp additionally seems on the National Board of Review’s Top Ten Independent Films of 2023 checklist, counting Gordon as a blossoming expertise to observe.

Did you go to your 10-year highschool reunion? I went to mine, however I lasted solely two hours earlier than I left to attend a Blonde Redhead live performance. Don’t fear. I nonetheless paid the price to assist make the celebration occur, however I wasn’t desirous about sticking round. Are you a fan of Molly Gordon’s efficiency on FX‘s The Bear? What highschool stereotype had been you? I sat on the “Freak” desk. Chain wallets and JNCO denims without end! Let us know if you wish to study extra about Peaked within the feedback under.

About the Author

Born and raised in New York, then immigrated to Canada, Steve Seigh has been a JoBlo.com editor, columnist, and critic since 2012. He began with Ink & Pixel, a column celebrating the magic and evolution of animation, earlier than launching the companion YouTube sequence Animation Movies Revisited. He’s additionally the host of the Talking Comics Podcast, a personality-driven audio present specializing in comedian books, movie, music, and extra. You’ll hardly ever catch him with out headphones on his head and pancakes on his breath.

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