Set in rural England in the 1950s Eva fantasises about her handsome, worldly cousin Joseph Lees, 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. 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.
Dreaming of Joseph Lees has generally received mixed reviews.
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By Kevin Thomas (1,201) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 14 Feb 2001
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Dreaming of Joseph Lees was released in 1999 and has generally received mixed reviews.
Online reviewers have written 14 reviews, giving Dreaming of Joseph Lees (1999) an average rating of 59%.
Overall, film critics prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 66%, compared to cinema-goers, who gave it a lower average score of 50%. Professional critics were more impressed with Dreaming of Joseph Lees than amateur reviewers were.
With a score of 59%, Dreaming of Joseph Lees is roughly the same as the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 1999, which stands at 59%.
Other movies from 1999 with similar scores include films like The Bone Collector, Message in a Bottle and Mystery Men.
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