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- 1hr 48m
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Movie Info & Cast
Synopsis
Cast
- Lou Diamond Phillips
- Esai Morales
- Rosanna DeSoto
- Elizabeth Peña
- Danielle von Zerneck
- Joe Pantoliano
- Rick Dees
- Marshall Crenshaw
- Howard Huntsberry
- Brian Setzer
Did You Know?
Trivia
- Original title was "Let's Go".
Goofs
- When Bob takes Ritchie to the brothel, Ritchie chooses to relish the music rather than the women. Bob is left with the women and as Ritchie approaches the stage, you can see Bob in the background putting his arms around a woman. In the next shot, Bob is just approaching the same woman.
Quotes
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- Ritchie Valens: This is like my high school prom.
- Bob Morales: Yeah. Except this prom puts out.
Atom User Reviews
Metacritic
This is a good small movie, sweet and sentimental, about a kid who never really got a chance to show his stuff. The best things in it are the most unexpected things: the portraits of everyday life, of a loving mother, of a brother who loves and resents him, of a kid growing up and tasting fame and leaving everyone standing around at his funeral shocked that his life ended just as it seemed to be beginning.
As played by the smooth-faced, cheerful Lou Diamond Phillips, there seems to be something almost supernatural about the young man of La Bamba. He's a chosen one, and his rise to the top will be swift and smooth. If only he could shake those nightmares about a crashing plane . . . . [24 July 1987, p.A]
La Bamba may in many ways be a catalogue of cliches, but they are cliches that Valens was able to live for his people for the first time, and they are cliches that Luis Valdez has been able to film for his people (for all people) for the first time.
