Zoot Suit
“An American original.”
Part fact and part fiction, Zoot Suit is the film version of Luis Valdez's critically acclaimed play, based on the actual Sleepy Lagoon murder case and the zoot suit riots of 1940s Los Angeles. Henry Reyna is the leader of a group of Mexican-Americans being sent to San Quentin without substantial evidence for the death of a man at Sleepy Lagoon. As part of the defense committee, Alice Bloomfield and George Shearer fight the blatant miscarriage of justice for the freedom of Henry and his friends.
Genres
Drama, Music
Studio
Universal Pictures
Language
en
Status
Released
How Zoot Suit performed
Budget
N/A
Worldwide Gross
$3.3M
Gross Profit
N/A
Return
N/A
Opening Wknd (est.)
$469K
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~48/52, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (30% of the domestic run, typical for Drama) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
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Cast
Henry Reyna
Daniel Valdez
Henry Reyna
El Pachuco
Edward James Olmos
El Pachuco
George Shearer
Charles Aidman
George Shearer
Alice Bloomfield
Tyne Daly
Alice Bloomfield
Judge F.W. Charles
John Anderson
Judge F.W. Charles
Enrique
Abel Franco
Enrique
Joey / Jose Torres
Mike Gomez
Joey / Jose Torres
Lupe
Alma Martinez
Lupe
Press
Francis X. McCarthy
Press
Dolores
Lupe Ontiveros
Dolores
Lieutenant Edwards
Ed Peck
Lieutenant Edwards
District Attorney
Robert Phalen
District Attorney
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