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16May/091

La Bamba The Movie ( Ritchie Valens )

La Bamba The Movie a Rock and Roll biopic that is based on the life of Ritchie Valens, a farm labourer, soon to become Rock 'n' Roll legend at the age of just seventeen. Lou Diamond Phillips plays the role of Ritchie, in this masterpiece.  It will make you feel good, have you crying and make you wonder about your own existence.

The main focus of the film La Bamba is on his rivalry with his older half-brother Bob and the romance between him and Donna, a white good girl whose parents disapprove.  Great cameos by Marshall Crenshaw, Howard Huntsburry, and Brian Setzer singer and performing as Buddy Holly, Jackie Wilson and Eddie Cochran.

Ritchie's music is done by Los Lobos, who also appear as a Mexican band playing a version of La Bamba which inspired Ritchie Valens.

How many of you out there no how Ritchie died and who also died along with him?

Well the answer is he died in plane crash in 1959 along with Buddy Holly and Big Bopper.

Starring: Lou Diamond Phillips, Esja Morales, Rosana DeSoto, Elizabeth pena and Danielle Von Zerneck.

Directed by: Luis Valdez

Produced by: Stuart Benjamin, Taylor Hackford and Bill Borden.

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