Kurt & Courtney

Kurt & Courtney (1998)

  • 67% of critics liked it
    (36 reviews)

  • 45% of users liked it
    (6,261 ratings)

British documentary filmmaker Nick Broomfield (Fetishes, Heidi Fleiss, Hollywood Madam) made this portrait of the late rock-star Kurt Cobain and his widow, musician and actress Courtney Love. Beginning with the 27-year-old Cobain's April 1994 suicide, Broomfield traces Cobain's Aberdeen,… More

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Feb 27, 1998 Wide
Roxie Releasing

Critic Reviews

  • Lisa Alspector, Chicago Reader

    This patchwork portrait is hard to look away from, partly because it exposes how one man rationalizes the dirty job of being a documentary filmmaker.

  • Dennis Harvey, Variety

    In the end, too, we've learned very little about Cobain's demons --- his alleged chronic stomach pains from stress, etc. --- or why he, and Nirvana, became so important to so many people

  • , Time Out

    [A] funny, angry, provocative film.

  • Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times

    Unreliable and categorically unfriendly to Love though it is, Kurt & Courtney is thoroughly watchable in a bad car accident, trash TV kind of way.

  • Edward Guthmann, San Francisco Chronicle

    When Kurt and Courtney veers into speculation and gives voice to bizarre and unreliable witnesses, it reeks of tabloid excess.

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  • KJ P


    This film tries to be far too informational, but comes off as pure hilarity due to the fact that the director has no contacts that are prepared to speak or any warrants to film anywhere, getting kicked out of every location he goes to. It really made me wonder, and raised some… More

  • MisterYoda ?


    one star

  • Lady D


    Nick Broomfield, controversially creates the documentary that many others have previously tried to do, looking into the many conspiracy theories surrounding the death of Kurt Cobain. I guess it depends on your opinion on the subject as to whether this documentary is intrusive to… More

  • Curtis L


    Uh. It makes me wonder, I suppose.

  • Mike T


    I can't believe this film even got to be shown to people. Incompetent director Broomfield chisels a conspiracy theory into what it really is: complete and total bullshit. This is an offensive, amateur and inexcusably sloppy effort that deserves no attention whatsoever. When… More

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