The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit is a 1998 film set in East Los Angeles directed by Stuart Gordon, written by Ray Bradbury and starring Edward James Olmos, Joe Mantegna, Esai Morales, Clifton Collins Jr. , Sid Caesar, Howard Morris and Gregory Sierra. Despite some well-known actors and the writing credit of Bradbury, the film was released direct-to-video by Touchstone Pictures. The opening titles are done completely in sand animation. The story starts off with Jose Martinez , a poor young man living in East Los Angeles who is in love with the girl next door. He sets out to go say hi when he... encounters a strange man eyeing him. He runs down the street and throws his wallet with his last $20 to escape. When cornered in the alley he is given back his money where the man measures his body frame. This man is Gómez who introduces himself and then whisks Martinez off to a run-down bar. There he meets two other similarly-sized Latinos, Dominguez , a wandering guitar player, and Villanazul , a burgeoning philosopher and speaker for the people.
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| Release date: | January 23, 1998 |
| Directed by: | Stuart Gordon |
| Runtime: | 77 Minutes |
| Producer: | Roy E. Disney, Stuart Gordon, Laura J. Medina |
| Music by: | Mader |
| Screenplay by: | Ray Bradbury |
| Genre: | Comedy |