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Dreaming of Joseph Lees -- A young woman sees her somewhat complicated life in romantic terms as she dreams about her dashing and attractive cousin. Produced by Christopher Milburn Productions and distributed by Fox Searchlight and Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.

Set in Somerset in 1958, Dreaming of Joseph Lees is the story of a young woman named Eva who begins to see her somewhat complicated life in romantic terms as she dreams about her dashing and attractive cousin.

Set in Somerset in 1958, DREAMING OF JOSEPH LEES is the story of a young woman named Eva who begins to see her somewhat complicated life in romantic terms as she dreams about her dashing and attractive cousin.

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.