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La Bamba
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Synopsis
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.
Cast
- Lou Diamond Phillips
- Esai Morales
- Rosanna DeSoto
- Elizabeth Peña
- Danielle von Zerneck
- Joe Pantoliano
- Rick Dees
- Marshall Crenshaw
- Brian Setzer
- Howard Huntsberry
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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.
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
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]
Dave Kehr
Chicago Tribune
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.
Jay Scott
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
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