Matthew Broderick Picks Your Videos

Flummoxed by the acres of choices in your local video store? Every now and then, Entertainment Reporter Mark McEwen on the CBS News The Early Show asks advice from the people who write, direct, and star in the movies.

Most recently, it was Matthew Broderick, the actor who also happens to be married to Sarah Jessica Parker, star of the HBO series Sex and the City.

For comedy, Broderick recommends City Lights and The Gold Rush. "When I was a kid, I was crazy for (Charlie) Chaplin," he explains, adding that Gold Rush features "a very good combination of humor and romance and great physical comedy, which I like."

For romance, he taps Casablanca and The Way We Were. On second thought, he admits that The Way We Were isn't as much his choice as his wife's choice. "My wife likes it, and I know it's good," he explains. "Chicks dig that movie."

Broderick also mentions Treasure of the Sierra Madre even though "it's not strictly a romance, unless the love of gold counts."

When it comes to action-adventure videos, Broderick reveals a taste for '70s disaster films, giving high marks to The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno.

Among his own movies, Broderick says he recommends Ferris Bueller's Day Off and Election.

On the big screen this fall, Broderick will appear in You Can Count On Me with Laura Linney. The screenplay was written by one of Broderick's best friends, Kenneth Lonergan, who also wrote The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Analyze This.