Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Rupert Graves | ... | Joseph Lees | |
Samantha Morton | ... | Eva | |
Nicholas Woodeson | ... | Mr. Dian | |
Lee Ross | ... | Harry | |
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Felix Billson | ... | Robert |
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Lauren Richardson | ... | Janie |
Frank Finlay | ... | Father | |
Vernon Dobtcheff | ... | Italian Doctor | |
Miriam Margolyes | ... | Signora Caldoni | |
Holly Aird | ... | Maria | |
Frederick Stuart | ... | Danny (as Freddie Douglas) | |
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Richie Tongé | ... | Nude Model |
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Harry Selby | ... | First Boxer |
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Juan Thomas | ... | Referee |
Emma Cunniffe | ... | Red-Haired Girl |
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. Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>
"Dreaming of Jospeh Lees", a good, earnest and artful shoot, tells of the coming of age of a rural English girl and her conflict over a tentative romance with a close friend while yearning for a less available kissin' cousin for whom she's carried a torch since childhood. Over all a good film, this story lacks substance, spends its time poorly, toys with the audience in a fraudulent attempt to whet interest in the absence of a solid story, and is too far out of the mainstream to be popular. Nonetheless, for those patient few who can buy into the characters, "Dreaming..." will be a very satisfying watch.