SummaryIn 1959, psychiatrist Dr. Alan Stone (Richard Gere) arrives at a mental hospital in Ypsilanti, Michigan armed with the radical belief that schizophrenic patients should be treated not with confinement and electroshock therapy but with empathy and understanding. As his first study, he takes on the particularly challenging case of three men—Joseph ... Read More
Directed By:Jon Avnet
Written By:Eric Nazarian, Jon Avnet, Milton Rokeach
Three Christs
Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
39
User score
Generally Favorable
6.3
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
15% Positive
2 Reviews
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54% Mixed
7 Reviews
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4 Reviews
4 Reviews
Jan 3, 2020
70
Gracefully directed by Fried Green Tomatoes and Justified director Jon Avnet, Three Christs is a great dark comedy about a dark subject. I can’t say enough how great the performances are. It’s a relevant character study on those who suffer from mental illness and the ones who treat it and why they do.
Jan 9, 2020
60
Whether it is the star power of the cast or the seductiveness of the period recreation, Three Christs has an appealing professionalism — an odd fit for a film about challenging a profession.
Jan 23, 2020
55
Avnet likely means well, just as Rokeach meant well. Three Christs needs more than a deep focus on the Christs themselves, and on the system that so utterly failed them. It needs to focus on Stone, and on the collision between ego and benevolence that led to The Three Christs of Ypsilanti’s birth. That should be the story.
Jan 8, 2020
42
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 shake.
Jan 8, 2020
40
The cast can’t cure all the movie’s problems, from its abrupt ending to a random acid-test scene, but it’s not without its curious appeal as a star-studded failed “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” experiment.
Jan 6, 2020
38
By the end, it’s as if a good doctor’s god complex has been taken up by the film itself.
Jan 8, 2020
25
Just an odd mess of a movie. That you feel anything at all is a tribute to the acting talent of Dinklage and Goggins, who occasionally make us care.
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Jan 12, 2020
9
Many movies rated here are done so based on antipathy of whats suggested in the title. A brilliant movie not about violence against women, no SJW agenda but a real serious piece of history told as it very likely was. Essential piece on what turned around mental health care.
Feb 3, 2020
3
The actors certainly give it their best, but the strong performances are not enough to make up for an unremarkable script. It has its moments, but at just under two hours, the film drags. Three Christs has an interesting premise, but unfortunately, the execution is a failure.
Production Company:
- Brooklyn Films
- Highland Film Group (HFG)
- Narrative Capital
Release Date:Jan 10, 2020
Duration:1 h 49 m
Rating:R
