Who call recall the movie "The Three Kings" (TNT production, I'm sure) about the three mental patients who

escape the asylum on camels and wind up in downtown L.A. for the saviour's birth? I love that movie and would like to find out more about it..Thank you...

This movie is from at least 15 years ago....

Yes, it was Lou Diamond Phillips fresh from La Bamba back in 1987. I loved that movie and always remember the scene with the emergency tracheotomy. It is a shame it hasn't become a Christmas classic. There was no TNT back then, it was either ABC or NBC that aired it, that much I remember.

Strangely I missed this one. But it does sound like Oscar Nom material.

Aw, yes, then chances are I have indeed missed it. I would have been seven.

I actually thought you were talking about that George Clooney and Mark Walhberg movie.

no, it's not about three menatl patients it's about three soldiers in Iraq.

Pretty scarce on info unfortunately.

"The made-for-TV Three Kings 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. As TV cameras grind away, the three ersatz Kings ride out of the Pageant--on camels--and into the mean streets of LA. As the story draws to its conclusion, the three escapees find themselves providing Christmas cheer for a group of homeless people on the outskirts of the city. Aaron Spelling's original story veers dangerously close to being devoured by its own cuteness at times, but Stirling Silliphant's script for Three Kings keeps the whimsy in check and the sillier events reasonably credible"