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DVD Features:
- Rated: PG-13
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 49 minutes
- Video: Color
- Released: April 6, 1999
- Originally Released: 1987
- Label: Sony Pictures
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Packaging: Keep Case
- Aspect Ratio: Letterbox - 1.85
- Aspect Ratio: Widescreen - 1.85
- Audio:
- Dolby Digital 2.0 - Spanish
- Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
- Additional Release Material:
- Featurette: "Remembering Richie"
- Trailers: Theatrical Trailer
- Music Video:
- Los Lobos - "La Bamba"
- Howard Huntsberry - "Lonely Teardrops"
- Audio Commentary:
- Luis Valdez - Director/Writer, Cast
- Taylor Hackford & Daniel Valdez - Producers
- Text/Photo Galleries:
- Biographies
- Filmographies
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Lou Diamond Phillips | |
| Performer: | Esai Morales, Danielle Von Zerneck & Elizabeth Peña | |
| Directed by | Luis Valdez | |
| Music by | Carlos Santana | |
| Screenwriting by | Luis Valdez | |
| Produced by | Taylor Hackford & Stuart Benjamin |
Entertainment Reviews:
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A strong statement about the fleeting, fragility of life, and the bond between brothers.
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Cinema Crazed
...LA BAMBA is engrossing throughout and boasts numerous fine performances. In Lou Diamond Phillips' sympathetic turn, Valens comes across as a very fine young man...
Variety
Rating: 3/5 --
solid, entertaining biopic
Shadows on the Wall
An enjoyable if slightly innocuous biopic based on the brief life and short-lived fame of teen rock'n'roll idol Richie Valens
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Time Out
La Bamba is engrossing throughout and boasts numerous fine performances.
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Variety
Rating: 3/5 --
Fairly well put together film about the hispanic king of rock'n roll.
Juicy Cerebellum
Predictably, there isn't a Ritchie blemish in sight. But the circumstances of Valens' life seem to beg this golden portrait.
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Washington Post
Product Description:
Rock 'n Roll biopic on the life of Ritchie Valens, a young Mexican/American whose talents as a rock and roll singer catapulted him from the obscurity of a farm laborer obsessed with music to stardom at the age of seventeen with a string of pop hits still popular today. Starring Lou Diamond Phillips as Ritchie and an excellent Esai Morales as his brother Bob, with whom he had a loving but tempestuous relationship.
Plot Synopsis:
A film biography of Mexican-American musician and singer Ritchie Valens, a one-time fruit picker who became a rock-and-roll legend.
The story covers his early career (when he scheduled gigs in between high school classes); his romance with blond, WASP-y Donna, the namesake of one of his pop hits; and the ill-fated national tour he played with Buddy Holly and the Big Bopper.
The story covers his early career (when he scheduled gigs in between high school classes); his romance with blond, WASP-y Donna, the namesake of one of his pop hits; and the ill-fated national tour he played with Buddy Holly and the Big Bopper.
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Production Notes:
- Produced by R. Valenzuela Productions.
- Film premiered (and opened) the 12th Seattle International Film Festival in 1987, two months before its national release.
- Shot on location in San Jose and Hollister, California, for an estimated budget of $6.5 million.
- Copyright 1987 Columbia Pictures.
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- Sales Rank: 2,361
- UPC: 043396085497
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