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The Menendez Brothers Movies & TV Shows: Adaptations of Erik & Lyle’s Story

Lyle and Erik Menendez’s case inspired multiple film adaptations in popular culture. See all of the TV shows and movies based on their story, here.

( Miles Crist/Netflix © 2024)As the second installment to the Monsters anthology series, The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story “chronicles the case of the real-life brothers convicted in 1996 for the murders of their parents, José and Kitty Menéndez,” per its synopsis on Netflix. “While the prosecution argued they were seeking to inherit their family fortune, the brothers claimed — and remain adamant to this day, as they serve life sentences without the possibility of parole — that their actions stemmed out of fear from a lifetime of physical, emotional and sexual abuse,” the rest of the premise reads. Well-renowed actor Javier Bardem plays the role of Lyle an Erik’s late father, José Menéndez, while Chloë Sevigny portrays their mother, Kitty.

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