The read
Most of the 647 1990s romance movies in this catalog score higher.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb6.3/10
Rotten Tomatoes36%
Metacritic55/100
10 audience votes
Key crew
- Eric StylesDirector
- Catherine LinstrumWriter
- Zbigniew PreisnerOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Rupert GravesJoseph Lees
- Samantha MortonEva
- Nicholas WoodesonMr. Dian
- Lee RossHarry
- Felix BillsonRobert
- Vernon DobtcheffItalian Doctor
- Lauren RichardsonJanie
- Margaret JohnAunt Margaret
- Miriam MargolyesSignora Caldoni
- Holly AirdMaria
- Frank FinlayFather
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Themes
lustlove crime