Princess Charming (1997)

Princess Charming is a cut-rate First Wives Club with all of the glop and none of the glitz. Jane Heller's trio of middle-aged divorcees — Elaine, Pat, and Jackie — dub themselves ''The Three Blond Mice'' and take an annual vacation together. Their latest trip, a cheesy cruise, provides the setting; a conversation Elaine overhears between two men — about the impending shipboard murder of an ex-wife — provides the dramatic tension, as Elaine assumes one of her trio is the target. Suddenly every man she meets is a suspect, although the real culprit is obvious early on. Nothing here is particularly absorbing or distracting, and absorption and distraction are, after all, the point of this kind of escapist fiction. C