Three Christs

In "Three Christs," psychiatrist Dr. Alan Stone (Gere) arrives in the summer of 1959 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 (Dinklage), Leon (Goggins), and Clyde (Whitford—each of whom believes they are Jesus Christ. Hoping that by getting them together in the same room to confront their delusions he can break through to them. Dr. Stone begins a risky, unprecedented experiment that will push the boundaries of psychiatric medicine and leave everyone involved—including Dr. Stone himself—profoundly changed. Based on the book "The Three Christs of Ypsilanti" by Dr. Milton Rokeach. (Gary Reber)