Kurt and Courtney |  | Actors: Kurt Cobain, El Duce, Tom Grant, Hank Harrison, Courtney Love
Studio: Fox Lorber
Category: DVD
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Rating:  86 reviews
Sales Rank: 51595
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 0
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 95 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.3 x 0.6
ISBN: 1572526351
UPC: 720917512822
EAN: 9781572526358
ASIN: B00000JS6K
Theatrical Release Date: February 27, 1998
Release Date: September 28, 1999
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Watching a Nick Broomfield documentary (Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer, Heidi Fleiss: Hollywood Madam) makes one not just want to shower, but to scrub oneself raw like Meryl Streep did in Silkwood. Going where even the tabloids fear to tread, the controversial Kurt & Courtney could also be called Courtney and Me. Investigating the apparent suicide of grunge icon Cobain, Broomfield runs into a formidable obstacle, namely Cobain's widow, Courtney Love. She blocked permission for him to use any of Cobain's music and ultimately got the film yanked from the Sundance Film Festival. Can't really blame her, as Broomfield follows the lead of a motley crew of conspiracy theorists, grudge-carrying former boyfriends, and estranged parents who suggest that Cobain was actually murdered at Love's behest. For those who watched bemused as Love reinvented herself as a Hollywood glamour girl, this is luridly entertaining stuff--albeit suspect. How much stock to put in S&M rocker El Duce (where does Bloomfield find these people?), who claims to have been offered money by Love to kill Cobain, and then offers to tell more if Broomfield will buy him a beer? Broomfield paints a much more sympathetic portrait of Cobain. In the film's most touching moment, an aunt plays a tape of a 2-year-old Cobain singing. "He's a prettly loud little guy," she says. These scenes will be nirvana for Cobain fans. --Donald Liebenson
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 Amazing, Interesting, and Appealing December 27, 2009
Melanie Gonsecki
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This DVD gives facts and is not bias. I completely loved it, I would watch it again and again!
I am left wondering still ... December 5, 2009
MortensOrchid (Cleveland, OH)
I am not a native of the Seattle area, but years ago I used to go out with a guy who was who assured me that everyone in Seattle thinks that Kurt Cobain was murdered. This is hard to swallow for me still, even all these years later. The evidence presented here is rather questionable to stay the least, but it obviously will still linger. Why? Because we simply don't know what happened to him in those last few days.
This documentary is done fairly well, as it has a very DIY quality about it. The people interviewed are, quite honestly, not reliable, at least to me. They are a bunch of burned out losers, rather trashy people. But then again, Kurt was, we later realized, one of them too. This is all about trashing Courtney. At the time, I was (and still am) a Nirvana fan who wouldn't believe that Kurt was anything but the artist he was. He was many things to all of us, who married Courtney, the source of all of their problems seemed to stem from her. The documentary interviews Courtney's estranged father (who she has not spoken to in years), who has made several attempts to launch his own failed fame attempts through her. Apples don't fall far from the tree, as it seems. An ex boyfriend is interviewed, who accuses Courtney of attempting to achieve fame through him like she would Kurt many years later, says Courtney was just using him as well. It's well known that Courtney was a stripper and a groupie for many bands long before she formed Hole, but she didn't want to acknowledge this as she was attempting to launch her acting career in the late 90s (see the Good Morning America interview nearly thwarted in the beginning).
It's now many years later. Courtney has since abandoned that clean image and went back to her old ways, has had her face pulled taut thanks to many plastic surgeries, and now the only media that pays much attention to her is the tabloid media and we really don't care anymore. But, did she murder him or at least drive him to suicide? I think I would certainly consider hurting myself as well if I had to live with her. But, the people that are interviewed (especially that weird scumbag "El Duche") are not the most reliable of sources. Kurt should rest in peace, but this will never die.
 I didn't know what to think August 9, 2009
Bradley F. Smith (Miami Beach, FL)
Pursuing a theory that Courtney Love murdered Kurt Cobain, this Brit filmmaker digs up some strange dudes like El Duce, who says he was offered $50k by Love to whack Cobain. The voice-over narration is a bit smarmy, and the manipulation through editing is obvious to anyone with a sophistication about journalism. I'm not sure if the theory is true, but Love was never charged. She is no longer much heard from, however. Given that she was due to be divorced and lose out on millions, it's possible she could have murdered Cobain. More likely is that she drove him to it.
Wow I never knew October 29, 2008
Mary Grove (Atlanta, Georgia)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I like most of America would like to believe that Kurt Cobain did not take his own life and after watching this movie I totally agree. If he did commit suicide, he was drivin to it by the nagging thing he was married too. I don't know why someone would bother wiping finger prints off of the shotgun and bullets if they were committing suicide. Also something that really doesn't add up to me is the fact that he had three times the lethal dose of heroin in his system but yet he was able to pull the syringe out of his arm and put all of his parphanalia away. I really believe that someone was with him even though I don't like conspiracy theory's this one made me really think and the more I think about it the more I can't stand Courney Love for taking him away from us for her own greed.
 Great Movie March 11, 2008
Chad Carpenter (Kentucky United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I am a huge fan of Kurt Cobain and Nirvana. This is a great doc. type of movie, if your like me and love Kurt Cobain, then you'll def. fall in love with this film. I've watched it about 4 times so far.
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