The Beta Test is a 2021 dark comedy thriller film written and directed by Jim Cummings and PJ McCabe.

[4] It follows a talent agent whose life is turned upside-down after taking part in a secret sex pact; Cummings and McCabe star alongside Virginia Newcomb and Jessie Barr.

After this prologue, Jordan Hines is introduced: a smooth-talking, hard-driving Hollywood agent with an ulcer who is five years sober and under constant stress at work.

He receives a purple envelope with an anonymous invitation to a no-strings-attached encounter at a hotel and a form to fill out about his sexual interests.

After meeting with a potential, high-profile Chinese client named Raymond, who berates him for his agency's practices being obsolete and phony, Jordan receives a second purple envelope with a hotel room keycard.

Johnny confesses to sending them, based on addresses from the 2014 Sony Pictures hack and further social media scrubbing, to match people with their perfect sexual partners.

Johnny realizes that Jordan never received a third letter, which asked for a $5,000 wire transfer in exchange for the identity of the woman he had sex with.

IFC Films acquired U.S. distribution rights in March 2021 and set it for a November 5, 2021 wide release in the United States.

The site's critics' consensus reads: "A darkly amusing thriller that discomfits as it entertains, The Beta Test satirizes Hollywood with savage flair.

"[9] According to Metacritic, which sampled 18 critics and calculated a weighted average score of 72 out of 100, the film received "generally favorable reviews".