La Bamba PG-13

La Bamba
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DVD Details

  • Rated: PG-13
  • Closed captioning available
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 49 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: April 6, 1999
  • Originally Released: 1987
  • Label: Sony Pictures

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User Ratings: 52,166
...[Brings Valens's] music to life all over again....Philips has a sweetness and sincerity that in no way diminish[es] the toughness of his onstage persona...
New York Times
Jul 24, 1987
An enjoyable if slightly innocuous biopic based on the brief life and short-lived fame of teen rock'n'roll idol Richie Valens Full Review
Time Out
Jul 8, 2010
Rating: 4/5 -- Perhaps otherwise destined to be remembered as a talented footnote in musical history, Richie Valens is immortalized for the masses in this well-conceived and involving movie. Full Review
eFilmCritic.com
Jan 7, 2003
...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
May 20, 1987
Predictably, there isn't a Ritchie blemish in sight. But the circumstances of Valens' life seem to beg this golden portrait. Full Review
Washington Post
Jan 1, 2000
A strong statement about the fleeting, fragility of life, and the bond between brothers. Full Review
Cinema Crazed
Jan 2, 2017
Rating: 3/4 -- This is a sincere, well-acted movie about the short life of a minor rock 'n' roll star, and by the time it's over we almost have the feeling Valens would have been surprised not to have died in a crash. Full Review
Chicago Sun-Times
Jan 1, 2000

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.

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  • Sales Rank: 29,763
  • UPC: 043396085497
  • Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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