Film

The Three Kings

1987 · 1h 36m · Family · Fantasy · Drama

IMDb

5.9

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.

Tiana Alexandra

Jan DuLong

Jane Kaczmarek

Dr. Paula Bolet

Richard Partlow

Police Officer

Lou Diamond Phillips

Tag

Art LaFleur

Police Officer

Kavi Raz

Falafel Stand Worker

Charles Nelson Reilly

Clerk

Pepe Serna

Alex Sweetwood

Stan Shaw

Paul

Tori Spelling

Girl at Falafel Stand

Vic Tayback

Harold

Jack Warden

David

Aaron Mendelsohn

Trendy Boy

Joey Aresco

H. Richard Greene

Rick Lenz

• Mel DamskiDirector
• Stirling SilliphantWriter
• William GoldsteinOriginal Music Composer
• Geoffrey RowlandEditor
• Gary ShafferCasting

Release date

December 17, 1987

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

1h 36m

Genres

Family, Fantasy, Drama

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