Brokedown Palace

(Fox)

Jonathan Kaplan's Midnight Express-like saga of two Ohio girls stuck in a Bangkok prison for alleged heroin smuggling floats on Claire Danes as a red-bikini'd bad girl who convinces her more reserved best friend (Kate Beckinsale) that they should nix a graduation trip to boring old Hawaii and sneak off to exotic Thailand. Beckinsale squelches her headstrong charm; still, Brokedown Palace is not as xenophobic as other films of its genre, and Danes can save just about anything.