Dreaming of Joseph Lees (1999)

Directed by

Eric Styles

Genre

drama film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 32m

Rated

R

Rating

6.4 of 10 from 10 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In 1950s rural England, a woman is torn between her childhood infatuation for a man who returns after an accident and the steady fiance who waits for her. The film follows her emotional struggle to choose between two very different lives.

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What happens

Dreaming of Joseph Lees is a 1999 British romantic drama film directed by Eric Styles and starring Rupert Graves, Samantha Morton and Nicholas Woodeson. It is an adaptation of a story written by Catherine Linstrum set in rural England in the late 1950s. The film was distributed by the Fox Entertainment Group. Samantha Morton's performance in the film won the Evening Standard Award British Film Award for Best Actress. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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