The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit
Director: Stuart Gordon
Genre: Family Film, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Fantasy Comedy
Year: 1998
Country: United States of America
Language: English Language
Starring: Clifton Collins, Jr., Joe Mantegna, Esai Morales, Gregory Sierra, Edward James Olmos
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. (credited as Clifton Gonzalez Gonzalez), 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 (Clifton Collins Jr.), 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 (Joe Mantegna) who introduces himself and then whisks Martinez off to a run-down bar. There he meets two other similarly-sized Latinos, Dominguez (Esai Morales), a wandering guitar player, and Villanazul (Gregory Sierra), a burgeoning philosopher and speaker for the people.
Barely letting the dust settle, Gómez shows them
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