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Dreaming of Joseph Lees (1999)

Directed by Eric Styles

Overview

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.

Rated R | Length 92 minutes

Actors

Rupert Graves | Samantha Morton | Nicholas Woodeson | Lee Ross | Felix Billson | Vernon Dobtcheff | Lauren Richardson | Margaret John | Miriam Margolyes | Holly Aird | Frank Finlay