Big screen

Opening Friday

Act of Valor (R): Enough with all the pretty-boy actors posing as heroic super-soldiers. Real-life Navy SEALs, still on active duty, star in this action-thriller about a worldwide manhunt to stop a terrorist plot, inspired by actual events.

Gone (PG-13): Amanda Seyfried stars in this thriller about a young woman who comes home to discover her sister has been kidnapped by the same nut job who kidnapped her exactly one year prior. What are the chances? No, seriously. What are the chances?

Wanderlust (R): Delayed from last year (uh-oh), this comedy from director David Wain ( Role Models) stars Paul Rudd and Jennifer Aniston as a stressed-out Manhattan couple who check out of the rat race and check into a free-love commune.

Tyler Perry’s Good Deeds (PG-13): Tyler Perry sets aside the drag routine to play a successful businessman preparing to marry his fiancé (Gabrielle Union) whose life is changed when he falls for a single mother (Thandie Newton).

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Small screen

Life’s Too Short (10:30-11 p.m. Sunday, HBO): Imagine a British Entourage shot as a mockumentary and you’re close to the mark as Warwick Davis, the little guy in the Harry Potter movies, plays a fictionalized version of himself trying to hustle his way back into the spotlight. Written and produced by the bad-boy team of Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant.

American Experience: Clinton (9-11 p.m. Monday, WPBT-PBS 2): From welfare reform to stupid cigar tricks, from a balanced budget to the first murmured mention of Osama bin Laden, this documentary — the first of two parts — charts the sometimes troubled and sometimes triumphant presidency of Bill Clinton.

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Glenn Garvin