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Wikipedia article
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'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 Menendez, 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.
Cast
* Courtney Love as Mary "Kitty" Menendez
* Nico Tortorella as Lyle Menendez
* Myko Olivier as Erik Menendez
* Benito Martinez as Jos Menendez
* Meredith Scott Lynn as Leslie Abramson
* Alison Wandzura as Jill Lansing
* Kai Bradbury as Glenn Stevens
* Tom Belding as Male Juror
* Artine Brown as Leslie Zoeller
* Angelo Renai as Businessman
* Ash Lee as Lester Kuriyama
Production
On January 31, 2017, it was announced that Courtney Love had joined the cast of the film. The film was shot in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, between February and March 2017.
Reception
Ken Tucker, writing for 'Yahoo!TV', found the film to be "a melodramatic mess" that "resembles a creepy high-school play" in quality.
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.
'Broadly's Mitchell Sunderland, on the other hand, praised the film's high/low tone and Love 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."
See also
*'Menendez: A Killing in Beverly Hills', a 1994 film also based on the murders.
References
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