THREE WISER MEN AND A BOY Shows ‘There’s Beauty in the Mess’

Published: November 21, 2024

THREE WISER MEN AND A BOY Shows ‘There’s Beauty in the Mess’

Movieguide® Contributor

Hallmark’s THREE WISER MEN AND A BOY actors are telling Movieguide® all about their new movie’s main theme and the meaning of Christmas.

The movie is the sequel to Hallmark’s 2022 hit, THREE WISE MEN AND A BABY.

“Paul (Campbell) and Kim (Sustad) wrote the first movie and the second movie and they have such a talent and wit,” Tyler Hynes, who plays Taylor, said of the movies’ writers. “As lovely as it sounds on your screen is as lovely as it was in the script.”

Hallmark’s description of THREE WISER MEN AND A BOY reads:

The story begins five years later with the Brenner brothers preparing for another memorable Christmas. In a crazy turn of events, possibly brought on accidently by the brothers themselves, the director of Luke’s son Thomas’ school holiday musical steps down. Luke is desperate to make his son’s stage dreams come true, so he enlists the help of his brothers Taylor and Stephan. Meanwhile, the trio navigates meeting their mom Barbara’s new boyfriend and the brothers grapple with their own feelings about this relationship. In true Brenner brother fashion, they are all in for a Christmas they will never forget.

Campbell and Sustad made sure to include central themes in both movies.

“In this one, it was really important to look at the idea that regardless of where you find yourself in life, you know, financially or emotionally, wherever you are, you’re good enough just as you are,” Campbell, who plays Stephen, told Movieguide®. “This idea that we should be able to love ourselves regardless of what’s happening and that we are lovable and that we will be okay and we do have people that love us and we have family and just coming to terms with who you are and accepting it, there’s so much power.”

“We keep saying there’s beauty in the mess. If you can just find the beauty, there’s beauty in the mess. That’s the big theme for this one and then I guess secondarily [it] would be moms deserve love, too,” he continued. “And that was really important to Kimberly, particularly as a mom to tell that story.”

Each of the Brenner brothers has some quirks that make them relatable and entertaining.

“I think my gentleman [seems] to have a little bit of a complex as to how capable or how successful he is,” Hynes said.

“For Stephan, his quirk is that he just will do anything to distance himself from who he really is,” Campbell said. “He just wants desperately to believe that he doesn’t have any issues with anxiety. His entire life is a quirk you know? He is one big quirk and his whole journey is coming to accept that again, he’s lovable because of it not in spite of it. That’s his journey.”

For Andrew W. Walker’s character, Luke, things aren’t how they used to be, and he’s just not adjusted to it.

“He used to be the man of the house…all of a sudden five years have passed and he’s…realizing who he is, who he was and no longer is anymore, which I think a lot of parents can relate to…years have passed…and all of a sudden I’m like, whoa, I got to slow things down,” Walker said.

“On paper, it looks like everything is going great, but really you see that he’s struggling with who he is and he’s losing these identifiers for him,” Walker told TV Insider.

Campbell says the movie hones in on “the meaning of Christmas” — family.

“We start [with] these boys all sort of in their own worlds, doing their own things. They have their own ambitions, and then again as we did in the first one. By the end of it they’ve come back together as a family [and] realize that they’re there to lean on each other and love each other and support each other, and I think Christmas, more than maybe any other time of year, does bring families back together you know, for better or for worse, but at the end of the day when it’s all said and done, the only people that you know will be there on your dying day is your family,” Campbell said.

While the movie has a deep message, it’s still full of lighthearted fun. Cambell told US Weekly there’ll be humor, “ridiculous costumes” and some hilarious choreography.

THREE WISER MEN AND A BOY will be available on Hallmark Channel Nov. 23 at 8/7c.