If you havent seen it in a while get on it and look for some of the not so obvious lessons the movie has to teach. Compared to other rock and roll biopics, this one rates right up there. Its always fun to see real rock stars in a movie about one. Biographical story of the rise from nowhere of early rock and roll singer ritchie valens who died at age 17 in a plane crash with buddy holly and the big bopper. This is the true story ritchie valens a young rock roll singer who tragically died in an aircrash at the age of 17. And the film, directed by chicano theater legend luis valdez, still stands up today. But as his star rises, valens has conflicts with his jealous brother, bob esai morales, and becomes haunted by a recurring nightmare of. Look also for a cameo by brian setzer as eddie cochran. The plane, a threepassenger beechcraft bonanza, departed for fargo, north dakota, and crashed shortly after takeoff in a snow. The film follows ritchie from his days in paicoma, california where he in and his family makes a meagre living working at plantations to his rise as a star. All of the free movies found on this website are hosted on thirdparty servers such as putlocker, sockshare, allmyvideos, filenuke, vidxden, novamov, nowvideo, megavideo, gorillavid, movshare, muchshare, vidbux, vidbull, vidto, nosvideo, movreel, videozed and many others. It was a top 40 hit in the us charts at the time and is one of early rockandrolls most wellknown songs. Memorable quotes and exchanges from movies, tv series and more. Valens was on the plane because he had won a coin toss.
With lou diamond phillips, esai morales, rosanna desoto, elizabeth pena. The plane, a threepassenger beechcraft bonanza, departed for fargo, north dakota, and crashed. You can watch this full movie free with english subtitles on movie television channels, renting the dvd or with vod services video on demand player, hulu and ppv pay per view, netflix. The day the music diedafter the february 2, 1959, performance in clear lake, iowa, holly, richardson and valens flew out of the mason city airport in a small plane that holly had chartered.
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