I would try something along the lines of:

She gives him a second chance, and he gives her the love she's always dreamed of. But life -- and death -- are more complicated than either of them expects ...

Then fill in with comparisons, etc., a la In the tradition of The Sixth Sense and [more teen oriented movie than Time Traveler's Wide], this is the story of two kids who have to make the hardest choice you can face.

Liese is right, Amy-- that's the rewind bit. We rewind back to the night Matthew originally dies and Emily is born-- his soul continues on into a baby also being born at the same time, so that seventeen years later, when they finally meet, they're both seventeen years old.

There's a spark of instant recognition in that "I feel as if I've known you forever," sense, nothing more than that.

Here's a shot at it:

When two souls touch, can death keep them apart? Emily is haunted by the face of boy she's never met. When she meets Matthew, the boy she's drawn since childhood seems to have come to life. But has it? Emily and Matthew must make hard decisions about love and revenge before they answer the eternal question: Does love ever die?

Nice, Ginger.

Ginger, I like a lot of the elements of that pitch. My critique partner came up with a nice one, too:

Emily has loved Matthew all her life -- despite the fact that he died the night she was born. Is she crazy, or is their bond stronger than the boundaries between time and space...life and death?

I'm wondering, since this is for a producer, if I don't need to include the BLANK meets BLANK comparison and *gulp* invoke the T-word?*

• Twilight

::spits three times and throws holy water::

I thought about the T-word. There's always "A supernatural romance in the tradition of Twilight...."

shudder

Well, you are subverting Twighlight to suit your own purposes. Still. ptui.

It's not really like Twilight, though. And maybe film is different, but I think editors are tired of comparisons to it.

I think you want it to be as short and punchy as possible.

I think your CP came closest.

Well, I'd love to stay away from that comparison, because I'm tired of it, too, but in talking to a friend of mine who's actively been stumping in Hollywood, they definitely want something with which they can make an easy connection. (Which brings me right to the Mitchell & Webb skit: "Like Jaws... but not.")

I'm trying to think of recent films or tv shows that might work, but I can't think of a one that's not vampire and what I'm afraid of is that if you use a vampire story to try to make the eternal love comparison, then you risk the other side seeing "VAMPIRE" first and not making the connection I want them to make.

Gah-- this is so hard. Why can't they just take my word for it that it's good, dammit?

The following are just gunning for laughs. They have no bearing on your concept, and are only coming into my brain because of "like Jaws .... but not" Don't hurt me if they're not funny.

"like True Blood meets Lost, with a hint of The Bachelor..." "like Pushing Daisies, but more popularly successful, paired with Gossip Girl and Dr. Oz..." "like the Ghost Whisperer mixed with Angel, but with more Spike, plus a little Supernatural."