Dreaming of Joseph Lees

Nov 26 1999 R 1h 32m
Drama, Romance

Set in rural England in the 1950s Eva (Samantha Morton) fantasises about her handsome, worldly cousin Joseph Lees (Rupert Graves), with whom she fell in love as a girl. However, stuck in a closed community she becomes the object of someone else's fantasy, Harry (Lee Ross). When Harry learns that Eva is planning to leave the village in order to live with and look after the injured Lees, he devises a gruesome scheme in order to force her to stay and look after him.

Plot

Somerset, 1958. Eva enters adulthood with good humor, keeping house for her absent-minded father, letting her younger sister Janie in on the secrets of growing up, working at a furniture factory, and dreaming of Joseph Lees, her second cousin who's off in Africa and Italy as a geologist, but has lost a leg in an accident. She's also considering the advances of a local farmer, Harry Flite, ebullient and head over heels for Eva. She agrees to live with him and seems happy, then at a family wedding, Joseph appears, she asks him to dance, and her fantasy begins to clash with Harry's obsession.

Written by

Catherine Linstrum

Directed by

Eric Styles

Cast

Rupert Graves, Samantha Morton, Nicholas Woodeson

Crew

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Production Countries

United States of America, United Kingdom

Production Companies

Fox Searchlight Pictures

Languages

English

Awards

2 wins & 2 nominations

Scores
# of Votes
1,025
Average Rating
6.3 out of 10
Metascore
55
Popularity
NA