The Three Kings
1987•1h 36m•4.0•Released
FamilyFantasyDrama
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.
Director
Mel Damski
Writer
Stirling Silliphant
Languages
English
Cast
Tiana Alexandra
Jan DuLong
Jane Kaczmarek
Dr. Paula Bolet
Richard 'Rick' 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
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