An unidentified LA studio is about to release a film which has nothing to do with space invaders, does not involve an overmuscled hero with supernatural powers and is not about a tidal wave, a tornado or the sinking of a big ship.

The film, the name of which cannot be disclosed at this point, is said to be "low-concept", meaning that the entire movie cannot be capsulized in a single sentence.

Although studio executives were reticent about disclosing too much detail concerning this highly unusual and unorthodox project, one production manager did disclose that the film would utilize such bold and avant-garde concepts as realistic situations, an interesting and entirely plausible plot, detailed character development, and, perhaps most astonishingly, a total absence of any form of magic.

Some Hollywood scholars believe that one or two films of this general type may hvae been made in the early, pre-1977 days of filmdom.

...and some of those might have been:
"A Patch of Blue" (Elizabeth Hartman/Sidney Poitier/Shelley Winters)

"A Taste of Honey"...(Rita Tushingham)

of maybe...

"The Miracle Worker" (Anne Bancroft/Patty Duke)

Hard to believe they could come up with that kind of quality these days! What a concept!

Maybe they could take a page from the Rainmaker, too, with Burt Lancaster and Katherine Hepburn.........though Burt DID make rain!

R-E-A-L-I-S-T-I-C....Can someone define this term to me please. I am officialy lost as a Hobbit in a Enterprise

I'd explain realistic to you Reap, but seeing what I am going through with your latest challenge, I think I will get a little revenge by leaving you in the dark.

I am glad to hear that a movie like this is coming out. It will be interesting to see something "old fashioned" and low tech for once. I love the high tech additions to movies, but this will be great for a little variety.

No blood and gore, no gratuitous sex, no car chase scene or explosions, no fifty-caliber bullets blowing someones head apart like a melon? I'm a little lost here....what's the point of this new movie?

Must be fried green tomatoes 2

I LOVE the movie Fried Green Tomatoes, Reap!

Ah, DieHard, you spoke your post like a true man...... Movies without someone's head blowing off or ooze squishing out of them can be quite entertaining.

Sorry Doug, the corporate execs got wind of the project and it has been nixed...in its place the director and scriptwriters have been instructed to begin the sequel entitled 'Titanic II: Ghost Submarine Ship'.

Darn!

And I was so looking forward to it.