| Director: | Fenton Bailey Randy Barbato |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
| Executive Producer: | Fenton Bailey Abdi Nazemian Randy Barbato |
| Producer: | Jamie Goehring |
| Editor: | Toby Yates |
| Runtime: | 120 minutes[1] |
| Company: | World of Wonder |
| Network: | Lifetime |
| First Aired: | [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 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.[3] [4]
On January 31, 2017, it was announced that Courtney Love had joined the cast of the film. In early February, Nico Tortorella and Myko Olivier were added to the cast as brothers Lyle and Erik Menendez.[6] The film was shot in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, between February and March 2017.[7]
Ken Tucker, writing for Yahoo! TV, found the film to be "a melodramatic mess" that "resembles a creepy high-school play" in quality.[8] 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.[9]
Broadlys 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."[10]