The Starkweather–Fugate case was the inspiration for several movies. Those include "Kalifornia" (1993), "Natural Born Killers" (1994) and "Starkweather" (2004). The television movie, "Murder in the Heartland" (1993) was a biographical depiction of Fugate and Starkweather. The earlier is played by Fairuza Balk. The latter is played by Tim Roth