YMMV / The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit

• Adaptation Displacement: Almost no one who has ever seen the film realizes that it's based on a play by Ray Bradbury, which was featured in The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit and Other Plays. It was first adapted as a television broadcast, followed by a stage musical and play before the film version.
• Award Snub: Although the film was praised when it was first shown at film festivals and was nominated for some awards, it only won one. Producer and director Stuart Gordon recalls that the film was completely ignored by a Latino film award group for how the characters were depicted.
  Stuart Gordon: Once I was talking to an award group, I can't remember what the award itself was called but it had to do with Latino films. Ice Cream Suit was completely ignored, which amazed me. I finally talked to someone who was part of their organization, he said, 'Well you know, we don't want to show films that have Latinos living on the streets, or struggling. We want to show them as lawyers and doctors.' They were even concerned that the characters were speaking with accents. I thought, 'Didn't you consider that this is what it's like for most Latinos?' But that's not the way they wanted to have them portrayed."
• Cult Classic: The film isn't very well-known and had very limited exposure as a direct-to-video movie, but is still regarded as an unfairly underrated film by those who have seen it.
• One-Scene Wonder: Sid Caesar and Howard Morris appear in a single scene as two brothers who are the proprietors of the store where the suit is being sold and absolutely steal the show from the five leads during their time on screen.