| Menendez: Blood Brothers | |
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| Genre |
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| Written by | Abdi Nazemian |
| Directed by | Fenton Bailey Randy Barbato |
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| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
| Production | |
| Executive producers | Fenton Bailey Abdi Nazemian Randy Barbato |
| Producer | Jamie Goehring |
| Editor | Toby Yates |
| Running time | 120 minutes[1] |
| Production company | World of Wonder |
| Original release | |
| Network | Lifetime |
| Release | June 11, 2017 (2017-06-11)[2] |
Menendez: Blood Brothers is a 2017 television film directed by Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato, written by Abdi Nazemian, and starring Courtney Love, Nico Tortorella, Benito Martinez, and Myko Olivier. The film is based on the lives of Lyle and Erik Menéndez, two brothers who were convicted of murdering their parents in Beverly Hills, California in 1989.
It aired on the Lifetime network in North America on June 11, 2017.[3][4]
On January 31, 2017, it was announced that Courtney Love had joined the cast of the film.[6] The film was shot in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, between February and March 2017.[6]
Ken Tucker, writing for Yahoo! TV, found the film to be "a melodramatic mess" that "resembles a creepy high-school play" in quality.[7] Similarly, New York Post critic Robert Rorke lambasted the murder scene in Menendez: Blood Brothers as "creepy and amateurish" and felt the film generally lacked any insight.[8]
Broadly's Mitchell Sunderland, on the other hand, praised the film's tone and Love's performance in particular, stating that "Courtney Love's performance as Kitty holds the film together", highlighting her ability to be "over-the-top in one scene, and subtle the next, without the performance seeming disjointed."[9]
