Dreaming of Joseph Lees

– Set in rural England in the 1950s Eva (Samantha Morton) fantasises about her handsome, worldly cousi..

Type:
Movie
Rating:
6.40 / 10
Duration:
One Hour and 32 Minutes
Release Year:
1999
Dreaming of Joseph Lees (1999)

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.

Story Timeline:
Producing Country:
USA, UK
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Genre:
Release Date:

26 Nov 1999

Language:

English

MPAA Content-Rating:
R – Restricted

Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian. Contains some adult material. Parents are urged to learn more about the film before taking their young children with them.

Director:

Eric Styles

Writer:

Catherine Linstrum

Main Actors:

Rupert Graves, Samantha Morton, Nicholas Woodeson, Lee Ross

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.

Awards:

2 wins & 2 nominations.

Production:

Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment

Ratings:
Internet Movie Database:
6.4/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
36%
Metacritic:
55%