Dreaming of Joseph Lees
Oct 29 1999
•2h 32m
•Romance, Drama
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.
Cast
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Rupert Graves
Joseph Lees
Samantha Morton
Eva
Nicholas Woodeson
Mr. Dian
Lee Ross
Harry
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