1968

<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>What happens when big-city boy leaves the city for the first time to meet small-town girl?</P><P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>THE YEAR IS 1968: the year Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King are murdered-- campus protests-- the height of the Vietnam War.</P><P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>DOUGLAS HOLLAND is the only son of a lower-class Jewish family in sprawling frenetic Los Angeles and a recent college graduate. Doug has no trouble getting dates but the ultra-sophisticated L.A. women repel him. He longs for a beautiful sunny more conservative girl. Doug Holland has never been in love.</P><P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>SO HE IMPULSIVELY GRABS a rural college scholarship in a last ditch attempt to escape the madness of Los Angles and the shallowness of L.A. women. But he never imagined what awaited him in tiny Athens Ohio.</P><P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>CLASSICALLY BEAUTIFUL and Christian Paige Howard an entering freshman from a small Ohio town is decidedly upper class. Paige seeks someone sincere as well as attractive - different from the immature boys wanting backseat sex. But Paige is a sorority girl with a predetermined set of values and ideas. - Enter Doug.</P><P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>ON MEETING Doug and Paige discover that despite considerable differences what they have been so fervently seeking is each other. But trouble brews. It is Doug's idealism and stubborn unwillingness to compromise his principles that dooms the relationship. When Paige rejects him Doug's anguish is so great he volunteers for suicidal duty in Vietnam. But then Paige unaware comes to realize she has made a terrible mistake. <I>Is she too late to stop him</I>? The stand-up-and-cheer climax provides the answer.</P><I><P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>1968 - A Love Story</I> is not only topical ala <I>Forrest Gump</I>. It has that one element that sets apart such classics as <I>The Graduate An Officer and a Gentleman Pretty Woman</I> and <I>Sleepless in Seattle</I>--</P><P ALIGN=CENTER>POIGNANCY</P><P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>And it's funny: <I>Doc Hollywood</I> meets <I>Northern Exposure</I>. You'll laugh and cry. You will <I>feel</I> this simple compelling story. And your heart will soar.</P>