This piece was written during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes.
Without the labor of the writers and actors currently on strike, the film being covered here wouldn’t exist.The so-called year of the “brand” movie continues and after the varying successes of films like Air, BlackBerry, Flamin’ Hot, and Tetris, we now have The Beanie Bubble.
Though, unlike some other films, Kristin Gore and Damian Kulash’s feature directorial debut is a much more cynical look at the ’90s craze that was the Beanie Baby.
The Beanie Bubble is not so much a love letter to the lovable plush toys nor is it some sugar-coated biography on their self-proclaimed creator Ty Warner.
Instead, the film takes a look at the three most prominent women in Warner’s life with how he took advantage of them, both personally and professionally, in order to gain the success he so desperately craved.
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