Dreaming of Joseph Lees is a 1999

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 British romantic

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 drama film

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 directed by Eric Styles and starring Rupert Graves

Rupert Graves

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, Samantha Morton

Samantha Morton

Samantha Jane Morton is an English actress and film director. She began her performing career with guest roles in television shows such as Soldier Soldier and Boon before making her film debut in the 1997 drama film This Is the Sea, playing the character of Hazel Stokes...

 and Nicholas Woodeson

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. It is an adaptation of a story written by Catherine Linstrum

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 set in rural England in the late 1950s. The film was distributed by the Fox Entertainment Group

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. Samantha Morton

Samantha Morton

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's performance in the film won the Evening Standard

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Award British Film Award for Best Actress.

Synopsis

Set in rural England in the 1950s Eva (Samantha Morton) fantasises about her handsome, worldly cousin Joseph Lees (Rupert Graves

Rupert Graves

Rupert Graves is an English film, television and theatre actor. He is best known for his role as DI Lestrade in the critically acclaimed television series Sherlock.-Early life:...

), 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

Lee Ross (actor)

Lee Ross is an English professional actor best known for his role as Dodger in Dodger, Bonzo and the Rest. He has also starred in, Press Gang, Secrets & Lies, The Catherine Tate Show and most recently as Owen Turner in the BBC soap opera EastEnders.-Career:His first acting role was as Fat Sam in...

). 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

• Rupert Graves
  Rupert Graves
  Rupert Graves is an English film, television and theatre actor. He is best known for his role as DI Lestrade in the critically acclaimed television series Sherlock.-Early life:...
  
   - Joseph Lees
• Samantha Morton
  Samantha Morton
  Samantha Jane Morton is an English actress and film director. She began her performing career with guest roles in television shows such as Soldier Soldier and Boon before making her film debut in the 1997 drama film This Is the Sea, playing the character of Hazel Stokes...
  
  - Eva
• Nicholas Woodeson
  Nicholas Woodeson
  Nicholas Woodeson is an English film and television actor.-Education:Woodeson attended Marlborough College and studied acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.-Film:...
  
   - Mr. Dian
• Lee Ross - Harry
• Felix Billson - Robert
• Lauren Richardson - Janie
• Frank Finlay
  Frank Finlay
  Francis Finlay, CBE is an English stage, film and television actor.-Personal life:Finlay was born in Farnworth, Lancashire, the son of Margaret and Josiah Finlay, a butcher. A devout Catholic, he belongs to the British Catholic Stage Guild. He was educated at St...
  
   - Father
• Vernon Dobtcheff - Italian Doctor
• Miriam Margolyes
  Miriam Margolyes
  Miriam Margolyes, OBE is an English actress and voice artist. Her earliest roles were in theatre and after several supporting roles in film and television she won a BAFTA Award for her role in The Age of Innocence .-Early life:...
  
  - Signora Caldoni
• Holly Aird - Maria
• Freddy Douglas - Danny (as Freddie Douglas)
• Richie Tongé - Nude Model
• Harry Selby - First Boxer
• Juan Thomas - Referee
• Emma Cunniffe - Red-Haired Girl