La Bamba
The life of rock & roll legend Ritchie Valens bursts across the screen in the highly celebrated music-filled biopic La Bamba, starring Lou Diamond Phillips (Young Guns, Che) as the teenage sensation whose rise to fame was tragically cut short at the age of 17.
Phillips gives an electrifying performance as Valens, who has to contend with racial prejudice, a jealous brother (a stunningly intense Esai Morales, NYPD Blue, Caprica) and an overbearing mother, before his unique style of Latino-influenced rock & roll rockets him to fame, but sets him on the path for an unavoidable date with destiny.
Featuring music from Grammy Award winning rock band Los Lobos, and also starring Elizabeth Peña (Jacob s Ladder, Down and Out in Beverly Hills), director Luis Valdez s La Bamba is an irresistibly toe-tapping depiction of the early days of American rock music, and the indelible influence one young man had upon it. Eureka Entertainment is proud to present the film on Blu-ray for the first time in the UK in a 30th Anniversary Digitally Restored Dual Format Edition.
Streaming Options
Release Information:
Technical Specifications
Supplements
- Feature-length audio commentary with director Luis Valdez, executive producer Stuart Benjamin, and actors Lou Diamond Phillips and Esai Morales
- Feature-length audio commentary with producer Taylor Hackford and associate producer Daniel Valdez
- Remembering Ritchie featurette
- La Bamba music video by Los Lobos
- Lonely Teardrops music video by Howard Huntsberry
- Original theatrical trailer