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Dreaming of Joseph Lees

Dreaming of Joseph Lees

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Status

Released

Release Date

Oct 29, 1999

Runtime

1h 32m

Genres

Romance, Drama

User Score

60%

Original Title

Dreaming of Joseph Lees

Production Companies

Fox Searchlight Pictures

Director

Eric Styles

Budget

$2,000,000

Revenue

$7

Description

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.