Glenn Garvin: On TV

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The week ahead at the movies and on TV

Big screen

Opening Friday

Bachelorette (R): Three former high school mean girls (Kirsten Dunst, Lizzy Caplan and Isla Fisher) are asked to be bridesmaids at the wedding of a friend (Rebel Wilson) they used to taunt as teenagers.

For a Good Time Call (R): In order to afford a New York City apartment, two college friends and roommates (Ari Graynor and Lauren Miller) start a thriving phone-sex business.

The Cold Light of Day (PG-13): A tourist (Henry Cavill) vacationing in Spain goes on the run after his family is kidnapped and some sinister agents (including Bruce Willis and Sigourney Weaver) start asking him about a briefcase he knows nothing about.

The Words (PG-13): Bradley Cooper is a frustrated writer who makes the find of a lifetime — an award-worthy manuscript, unpublished and unsigned, tucked away inside an old briefcase. Jeremy Irons is the stranger who shows up after the book has been published to great success, claiming the work is his.

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Small screen

House on Haunted Hill (4 a.m. Saturday, Turner Classic Movies): Millionaire Vincent Price offers strangers a fortune to spend a night in a haunted house. Strings definitely attached. When this classic thriller was released in 1959, theaters were fitted with a gimmick called Emergo that sent a skeleton flying out into the audience at a climactic moment. Schlocky? Yeah. Scary? Totally.

Klitschko (5:30 p.m. Saturday, HBO): A documentary look at the giant Ukrainian brothers Wladimir and Vitali Klitschko, who’ve dominated heavyweight boxing the past 13 years.

Deadly Affairs (8 p.m. Saturday, Investigation Discovery): Noted investigative reporter and daytime-TV adulteress Susan Lucci hosts a true-crime series on homicidal romantic triangles and quadrangles and — well, you get the picture.

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Let Miami Herald TV critic Glenn Garvin program your TiVo! Just click on his best bets for the week at http://www3.tivo.com/tivo-tco/mix/index.do

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