La Bamba

About La Bamba

Los Angeles teenager Ritchie Valens becomes an overnight rock 'n' roll success in 1958, thanks to a love ballad called "Donna" that he wrote for his girlfriend. But as his star rises, Valens has conflicts with his jealous brother, Bob, and becomes haunted by a recurring nightmare of a plane crash just as he begins his first national tour alongside Buddy Holly.

La Bamba (1987) is a music film directed by Luis Valdez. The film is filed under rock 'n' roll, mexican american, dying young, and marital rape.

Lou Diamond Phillips takes the lead as Ritchie Valens, Danielle von Zerneck as Donna Ludwig, Elizabeth Peña as Rosie Morales, and Rosanna DeSoto as Connie Valenzuela. At 108 minutes long, it arrived in July 1987.

The screenplay is by Luis Valdez. It streams on Netflix, Netflix Standard with Ads, and Sony Pictures Core Amazon Channel in the United States.

Reagan, Elvis, and The Death of Stalin make useful companions to La Bamba, all filed under 1950s, biography, and nostalgic. TMDB voters put it at 7.3 out of 10 across 836 votes and it carries a PG-13 rating.