The best movie reviews, in your inbox. The story has been dramatized elsewhere Yet the director, Jon Avnet, who wrote the script with Eric Nazarian, succeeds in keeping the movie watchable in spite of its contrivances. Three Christs is far from an unholy mess, but this fact-based drama forsakes its talented cast with a disappointingly facile treatment of genuinely interesting themes.
True story about a doctor who treated three paranoid schizophrenic patients at the Ypsilanti State Hospital whom believed they were Jesus Christ. "Three Christs" follows a relatively well-tread formula, which is perhaps why it feels so inert. It's a good, relative surface-level reading of events, but the man-on-a-crusade approach feels so much more dramatic than it needs to be. The cast can't cure all the movie's problems, from its abrupt ending to a.
What "Three Christs" ignores are not only the plentiful ethical criticisms of Rokeach's work (as one of the patients put it in the book, "When By now it is probably amply clear that "Three Christs" is not a faith-based movie — at least, not in the conventional sense. The movie has almost nothing to do with. Parents need to know that Three Christs is an empathy-centric drama about a real-life psychiatric experiment that started a movement for change. Walton Goggins as Leon, Richard Gere as Dr. Stone, Bradley Whitford as Clyde, and Peter Dinklage as Joseph in THREE CHRISTS Starring: Richard Gere, Bradley Whitford, Charlotte Hope and others.
Trailer Three Christs
Producer: Jon Avnet, Aaron Stern, Daniel Levin and others. Alan Stone who is treating three paranoid schizophrenic patients at the Ypsilanti State Hospital in Michigan, each of whom believed they were Jesus Christ. What transpires is both comic and deeply moving.
The movie may be too understated and inert for its own good, but the actors. That in itself doesn't make for an entire movie, but it is easy to imagine the movie with a higher level of flair and intrigue with someone significantly more. Three Christs needs more than a deep focus on the Christs themselves, and on the system that so utterly failed them. An insipid, boring mess, Three Christs doesn't even have the decency to be amusing, apart from Stephen Root's forced delivery of the film's title followed by a what-a-world head.