Movielogr
The Three Kings (1987)
Directed by Mel Damski
Overview
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.
Length 96 minutes
Actors
Pepe Serna | Jack Warden | Leilani Sarelle | Vic Tayback | Stan Shaw | Michael Paul Chan | Tori Spelling | Jane Kaczmarek | Lou Diamond Phillips | Art LaFleur | Jerry Houser | Charlie Dell | Joey Aresco | Mike Pniewski | Jerry Tondo | Aaron Mendelsohn | Ashley Bank | Kavi Raz | Bruce Marchiano | John Gilgreen | H. Richard Greene | Rick Lenz | Phil Rubenstein | Richard Partlow | Fred D. Scott | Tiana Alexandra | Tomás Goros | Charles Nelson Reilly | Brian Lando | Julie Cypher | Sheldon Feldner | Frank Corsentino | Max Chain | Gail Cameron | Randall Caldwell