Dreaming of Joseph Lees

Dreaming of Joseph Lees

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1999-11-26

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA, UK

Runtime:

92 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.4 (696 Reviews)

Director:

Eric Styles

Genres:

RomanceDrama

Fullplot:

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.

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