The Beanie Bubble
The Beanie Bubble is a 2023 American comedy-drama film directed by Kristin Gore and Damian Kulash Jr. from a screenplay by Gore, based on the 2015 book The Great Beanie Baby Bubble: Mass Delusion and the Dark Side of Cute by Zac Bissonnette about the Beanie Babies bubble. The film stars Zach Galifianakis, Elizabeth Banks, Sarah Snook, and Geraldine Viswanathan. The Beanie Bubble was released in select cinemas on July 21, 2023, before its streaming release on July 28, 2023, by Apple TV+. Plot
The film depicts the meteoric rise in popularity of Beanie Babies. Beanie Bubble tells the story behind the Beanie Baby toy obsession that took off in the 1990s. It follows the story of toy manufacturer turned billionaire Ty Warner, and centers around the women who were integral to his success. Robbie, Sheila, and Maya help turn Beanie Babies into the coveted products they became. The women are based on three real women, Patricia Roche, Faith McGowan, and Lina Trivedi, each of whom played an integral role in the rising popularity of Beanie Babies. Cast

Production
It was announced in January 2022 that Apple TV+ had acquired the distribution rights for the film, which would see Zach Galifinakis, Elizabeth Banks, Sarah Snook, and Geraldine Viswanathan star, with Kristin Gore and Damian Kulash directing. Filming began by April 2022 in Marietta, Georgia. Production also took place in Atlanta. The film features a new original track from the band OK Go, titled "This". Reception 

 

The New York Times critic Calum Marsh unfavorably compared The Beanie Bubble to other "corporate biopics" released in 2023, including Air and Tetris, and said that it "deploys every storytelling cliché in the book". Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian criticised the film's "deeply muddled non-storytelling and tonal blandness", and the Evening Standard Charlotte O'Sullivan said its "clichéd" script offers "a lazy take on power and greed". Digital Spy's Mireia Mullor called the film "understuffed" but said Geraldine Viswanathan's performance "steals the show". References

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2023 films
2023 comedy-drama films
2020s American films
2020s business films
2020s English-language films
American business films
American comedy-drama films
American films based on actual events
American nonlinear narrative films
Apple TV+ original films
Beanie Babies
Comedy-drama films based on actual events
Films about toys
Films based on non-fiction books
Films produced by Brian Grazer
Films produced by Ron Howard
Films scored by Nathan Barr
Films set in 1983
Films set in 1984
Films set in 1992
Films set in 1993
Films set in 1996
Films set in 1997
Films shot in Atlanta
Imagine Entertainment films