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The true story of pop star Ritchie Valens' rise to fame in the late 1950s, and of the tragedy that cut short a brilliant career. Ritchie, a Mexican fruit picker, always had a dream of becoming a rock singer, and a recurring nightmare of being killed in a plane crash. Both came true...Product Identifiers
ProducerTaylor Hackford
EAN5035822128538
eBay Product ID (ePID)3953042
Product Key Features
ActorElizabeth Pena, Lou Diamond Phillips, Joe Pantoliano, Rosana De Soto, Esai Morales, Danielle Von Zerneck
Film/TV TitleLa Bamba
DirectorLuis Valdez
LanguageEnglish
Subtitle LanguageArabic\Bulgarian\Czech\Danish\Dutch\English\Finnish\French\German\Greek\Hebrew\Hindi\Hungarian\Icelandic\Italian\Norwegian\Polish\Portuguese\Spanish\Swedish\Turkish
Run Time104 Mins
Aspect Ratio1.85 Wide Screen\16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen
Release Year2001
FormatDVD
Features2 Music Videos\2 Commentaries\Theatrical Trailer\Filmographies, Widescreen, With Subtitles
Additional Product Features
Number of Discs1
Certificate15
Additional InformationThis is the biography 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.
ReviewsNew York Times - ...[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..., Variety - ...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...
ScreenwriterLuis Valdez
MusicCarlos Santana
Dubbing LanguagesGerman\French\Spanish\Italian
Format DescriptionDVD 9
Sound sourceDolby Digital 5.1\Dolby Digital Surround
Movie/TV TitleLa Bamba