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La Bamba is a 1987 American biographical drama film written and directed by Luis Valdez. The film follows the life and short-lived musical career of American Chicano rock and roll star Ritchie Valens. [1] [2] [3] The film stars Lou Diamond Phillips as Valens, Esai Morales, Rosanna DeSoto, Elizabeth Peña, Danielle von Zerneck and Joe Pantoliano.
Jul 24, 1987 · La Bamba: Directed by Luis Valdez. With Lou Diamond Phillips, Esai Morales, Rosanna DeSoto, Elizabeth Peña. Biographical story of the rise from nowhere of early rock and roll singer Ritchie Valens who died at age 17 in a plane crash with Buddy Holly and The Big Bopper.
- (36K)
- Biography, Drama, Music
- Luis Valdez
- 1987-07-24
Los Angeles teenager Ritchie Valens (Lou Diamond Phillips) becomes an overnight rock 'n' roll success in 1958, thanks to a love ballad called "Donna" that he wrote for his girlfriend (Danielle von ...
- (80)
- Luis Valdez
- PG-13
- Lou Diamond Phillips
"La Bamba" opens with a sequence that at first seems like a memory. Some teenage boys are playing basketball in a school yard. Far overhead, a light plane drones through the sky. The colors of this scene are all washed out, as in an old memory, and the voices sound far away. There is slow motion. Another airplane appears. The basketball game continues. We are lulled by the feeling of a slow ...
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A Mexican-American farm laborer obsessed with music and full of dreams, 17-year-old Ritchie Valens burst into the world of rock and roll with a string of chart-busting singles. Clinging to the love of his girlfriend Donna Ludwig, haunted by a growing conflict with his older brother Roberto Morales, and eerie premonitions of his own death ...
La Bamba. The brief but incandescent life of rock-and-roll trailblazer Ritchie Valens is immortalized in this enthralling biopic from another Mexican American icon, Luis Valdez, the father of Chicano cinema. With sweetness and swagger, Lou Diamond Phillips embodies the 1950s California teenager who, forged by his fiercely supportive mother ...
