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Was the portrayal of Ritchie's brother as an abusive guy who stole Ritchie's girlfriend accurate?


Did he come back from his drug run in Mexico and then after acting all brotherly sneak off and have sex with Ritchie's girlfriend? Then relocate with the family to a city in California using his drug money from his drug run and live in a trailer on the property he bought his family with the girlfriend he stole who he then impregnated?

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I believe they played it up a lot and the family were ok with it as they thought it would make the film better. I watched La Bamba again last night I kind of get annoyed with the brother sub plot. I wasn't interested in him at all and think they could have spent more time on Richie.

If he really did bed his brothers girl than I would say Richie got off lucky. She couldn't have been very loyal and going by the film she regretted her decision especially when he became famous.

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That part was 100% fiction. There was never any love triangle between Ritchie, Bob, and Rosie

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