However, when shown on the BBC, the film contained Nirvana's 1991 performance of "Smells Like Teen Spirit" from Top of the Pops.

Broomfield interviews Tom Grant, a private investigator who has alleged that Love may have conspired to kill her husband,[1] and wants the case re-opened by the Seattle Police Department.

[1][3] The film also includes interviews with Portland drug culture celeb and former stripper, Amy Squier, about her explicit and personal knowledge of Kurt and Courtney's heroin use, and an interview with The Mentors singer El Duce (real name Eldon Wayne Hoke), who claimed that Love offered him $50,000 to kill Cobain.

[3] Broomfield also shows an interview with Al Bowman, a minor Hollywood promoter, along with Norm Lubow (in disguise and using the alias "Jack Briggs").

Broomfield includes clips in the film of the threats made by Cobain, and Clarke details the story of Love assaulting her by attacking her with a glass and dragging her along the floor by her hair.

In a review by Roger Ebert, he said that "Broomfield's film opens with Love as a suspect, only to decide she was probably not involved, and the movie ends in murky speculation without drawing any conclusions".

[17] A review in the newspaper Providence Phoenix stated that "All in all there's nothing here to persuade even the most zealous Marcia Clark disciple to open a case against Courtney, but plenty of fodder for the kind of fascinating films Broomfield likes to make".

The website's consensus reads: "Even if its desultory drift keeps it from reaching nirvana, Kurt & Courtney is an entertaining attempt to chronicle the life and death of a troubled genius.