The characters are based on three real women: Patricia Roche, Faith McGowan, and Lina Trivedi, who each played integral roles in increasing Beanie Babies’ popularity.

[3] 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.

The website's consensus reads: "The Beanie Bubble's cast makes the movie an easy watch, but that enjoyment is lessened by its shallow treatment of the real-life story.

[9] 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".

[10] Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian criticised the film's "deeply muddled non-storytelling and tonal blandness",[11] and the Evening Standard's Charlotte O'Sullivan said its "clichéd" script offers "a lazy take on power and greed".