Movie  1987
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Ted Quillen: Your wife's pregnant and in the car with you?
Bob Morales: [on phone] She's in the car right now!
Ted Quillen: [pause] And what kind of car do you have?
Bob Morales: [on phone] A Rolls Royce!
[Maniacal laughter]
Buddy Holly: The sky belongs to the stars.
Bob Keene: Wait Ritchie, look. I understand about friendship... but I'm being honest here. Not everyone in the world gets a shot at the "brass ring." You're gonna have to ask yourself what's more important, your friends... or your music.
Ritchie Valens: Walks back to table: My family...
Bob Morales: [to Ritchie] You think the whole fuckin' world revolves around you?

Ritchie Valens: This is like my high school prom.
Bob Morales: Yeah. Except this prom puts out.
Bob Morales: You know, my old man wasn't around when I was born.
[takes swig of vodka and grimaces]
Bob Morales: Why should I be?
Rosie Morales: He doesn't want a wife. He wants a love slave, one that he can kick around.
[Last Line]
Bob Morales: [In agony over his brother's death] RICHIE!
Ritchie Valens: My mom reckons I'm going to be a star. And stars don't fall from the sky.
Bob Morales: Come on Rosie, take a hit man! Put a little mota in your love life!
Donna Ludwig: I will never let anyone get in the way of my feelings for you,ever again.
Bob Keene: Look... it could be worse, you could have been Riki Zuela.
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Lou Diamond Phillips leaves a haunting impression as the late 1950s pop idol Ritchie Valens, who made the Latino influence in rock & roll conspicuous through his hit songs. Filmmaker Luis Valdez (Zoot Suit) creates a nimble, exciting, and sympathetic portrait of the boy driven to rise above obstacles of race and family legacy, and Esai Morales is equally fine as Ritchie's envious, searching brother. Great support from Elizabeth Peña and Danielle von Zerneck as Valens's sister and mother, respectively, and Joe Pantoliano is solid as the singer's straight-talking manager. Valdez brightens up the third act with a rock & roll show featuring, among others, Brian Setzer as Eddie Cochrane. Marshall Crenshaw turns up as Buddy Holly getting on that plane with Valens, and Los Lobos (who actually performs Valens's music on the soundtrack) has a nifty cameo as a Tijuana band that gives Valens a piece of crucial inspiration. --Tom Keogh