The Three Kings (1987)

Name: The Three Kings
Director: Mel Damski
Genre: Family, Fantasy, Drama
Released: 1987-12-17
Duration: 1 h 36 min
Rating: 5.9
Cast: Tiana Alexandra, Jane Kaczmarek, Richard Partlow, Lou Diamond Phillips

Family Fantasy Drama

Director: Mel Damski

Cast: Tiana Alexandra, Jane Kaczmarek, Richard Partlow, Lou Diamond Phillips

5.9

Runtime96 min

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The made-for-TV film stars Jack Warden, Lou Diamond Phillips and Stan Shaw as three patients in a Los Angeles-area mental institution. Dressed as the Three Wise Men for a Christmas pageant, the trio is suddenly struck with the delusion that they are really their Biblical counterparts on a quest to find the Baby Jesus. As TV cameras grind away, the three ersatz Kings surreptitiously ride out of the gates of the asylum—on camels—and into the mean streets of LA. As the story draws to its conclusion, the three escapees find themselves providing a Christmas miracle (but not in the form of rap) for a group of homeless people on the outskirts of the city.

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Fans of heartwarming, feel-good dramas will appreciate the delightful performances by stars like Lou Diamond Phillips in this 1987 film directed by Mel Damski, where three patients from a mental institution set out on a whimsical quest to find the Baby Jesus and bring Christmas cheer to the homeless.

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The Three Kings is a 1929 British-German silent drama film directed by Hans Steinhoff and starring Henry Edwards, Evelyn Holt and Warwick Ward. Separate versions were released in Germany and Britain. At a circus in Blackpool, a violent rivalry breaks out between two of the performers over a woman.