Martin (John Amplas), a young man who looks around 20-years-old, boards a train in Indianapolis, Indiana for New York. At night, he breaks into a sleeping car and sedates a woman with a syringe full of narcotics. She struggles, but he tells her not to struggle or be upset because she wont feel pain. After a few minutes, the woman falls asleep, and Martin has sex with the unconscious woman. Afterwards, he slices her wrists with a razor blade so he can drink her blood. The woman bleeds to death in her sleep.
In the morning, the train stops in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where Martin disembarks. He is met by Tata Cuda (Lincoln Maazel) an elderly and hostile old man who claims to be his cousin from the Old World. Together, they travel by another train to the town of Braddock, a dying industrial suburb. They walk to Cuda's large house where he shows Martin his living quarters. Cuda then accuses Martin of being an 84-year-old vampire from his old country. He has taken in Martin because he is family, but tells him, "First I will save your soul. Then I shall destroy you." Martin denies being a vampire and implies that Cuda is merely his uncle rather than his cousin. Cuda then puts up strings of garlic on the doors to his and his granddaughter's room, and then holds up a small cross when Martin approaches him. Martin takes away the cross, and even takes a bite of the garlic mocking these attempts by saying bitterly, "There's no real magic... ever". Cuda tells Martin that he can come and go as he pleases. But he also warns Martin that he will kill him if he kills anyone in Braddock. He also tells Martin to stay away from his granddaughter Christine (Christine Forrest), whom arrives home from her job that evening.
Cuda introduces Christine to Martin, but also warns her to stay away from him. But Christine instead strikes up a friendship with Martin who confides in her about his vampire heritage. When Cuda later confirms Martin's claims to be a vampire, Christine, not surprisingly, refuses to believe either one. She thinks that Cuda and the other members of her family have driven Martin to insanity by making him think that he is a vampire. It is never revealed if Martin really is a vampire, or just a shy and lonely youth with troubled issues. Christine is the only person that Martin gets the courage to talk to. When Christine's boyfriend Arthur (Tom Savini) arrives at the house for dinner, Martin stops talking and backs away despite Arthur's attempt at a conversation. Christine later confides in Martin that she hopes to leave Braddock someday with Arthur, even though Martin points out that Arthur treats her badly and is both verbally and physically abusive towards her.
When Christine sees that Martin won't talk to anyone else, she buys him a phone which he installs in his room. Martin begins to repeatingly call a radio talk show where he describes what it's like to be a vampire. He becomes known on the radio as "the Count" to all the listeners. But the patronizing host (Michael Gornick) thinks he's just crazy.
Martin gets a job at Cuda's grocery store of stocking shelves, hauling boxes around, and even gets to be a delivery boy for some of the customers. One of his customers is a certain Abby Santini (Elyane Nadeau), who becomes taken in with Martin. She is a very friendly young woman who is depressed when she tells Martin that her husband is unfaithful. But Martin still does not have the nerve to talk with her, so she is happy to have someone to confide in with her life problems. Martin phones the radio show host to describe his infatuation with the housewife and senses that she wants to have sex with him. When the radio show host asks Martin if it is a sexual problem that he has involving women criticizing him during sex, Martin replies that he has never had sex with a woman who was awake.
One day, Martin travels by train to outside Braddock to look for victims. At a supermarket, he follows a young woman (Sarah Venable) home to her posh suburban house. He sees the woman's husband (Richard Rubenstein) leave for a long business trip, and Martin decides this would be the right time for more feeding. Martin returns to the house after dark and breaks in through the garage door. But it is Martin who gets the surprise when he bursts into her bedroom to find her in bed with her adulterous lover Lewis (Al Levitsky). After a vicious struggle, Martin jabs both of them with hyprodermic needles with narcotics, and waits for the drugs to take affect. He drags the unconscious body of Lewis from the house to a clump of trees across the street where he kills him by shoving a broken tree branch into his neck and drinks his blood. Martin returns to the house where he has sex with the unconscious woman. But out of compassion and pity, he decides to let her live.
Martin begins to have romantic monochrome visions of his vampire past (real or imagined), where he drained blood from a young woman and was chased through the streets of a nameless European town by a torch-lit mob.
During one Sunday at church, Cuda brings home Father Howard (George A. Romero) who asks him about the possibility of exorcism and demon possession. Father Howard calls upon the elderly Father Zulemans (Clifford Forrest, Jr.) over at Cuda's request. Together, Cuda and Zulemans confront Martin his bedroom and attempt to perform an exorcism on him. At this point, Martin remembers (another real or imaginary flashback), in the Old Country of people trying to perform an exorcism on him, and he flees them. Martin then flees from Cuda and Zuelmas as well. A little later that night, Martin terrorizes Cuda in a children's playground when he puts on a Dracula cape and puts false fangs into his mouth to pretend that he really is a vampire.
One day, Martin finally musters the courage to talk with Mrs. Santini during a routine delivery to her house where he tells her that he's aware of her attempts to seduce him and wants now to have sex with her. After having sex for the first time, Mrs. Santini becomes more depressed for she tells Martin that her husband just left her because she discovered that she cannot bear children, and that her desires towards him are based on sex and nothing else. But Martin wants to stay with her and help her move on with her life. Martin tells the radio show host about his affair with the housewife and that he no longer has the urge to attack other women.
Meanwhile, Arthur meets with Cuda and tells him that he wants Christine to leave town with him so they can get married and start a family. But Christine becomes angry at Cuda when he tells Arthur that insanity runs in their family and he shouldn't consider having children with her. Shortly afterwards, Christine packs up and leaves Braddock for New York with Arthur despite Martin telling her that Arthur is abusive towards her. But her mind is made up. Before leaving, Christine tells Martin that she really has no ill feelings towards him and just wants to make a fresh start with her life. She says goodbye to him and promises to write. But Martin knows that with an abusive and possessive man in Christine's life, she probably won't.
Depressed over losing his one true friend, Martin phones the radio show host and tells him that he's getting "shaky" and wants to go out looking for more victims. That night, Martin travels to a rough crime-ridden area of Pittsburgh and attacks two derelicts in a alley, injecting them with narcotics. He kills one of them by silting the bum's wrist and drinking his blood. Martin is about to kill the second one when a police car shows up and gives chase. Martin narrowly escapes during a long chase on foot which leads from the garbage strew streets and through a local store. Martin runs into an old warehouse where a drug deal is going down. A shootout between the two cops and the three thugs begins where all of them are killed, leaving Martin as the sole survivor who casually walks away from the carnage.
One day, Martin finds Mrs. Santini dead in her bathtub, after she had slit her writs with a razor blade. Martin anonymously calls the police to report the body and leaves. He phones the radio show host one final time to say that he really doesn't need friends or people to talk to for he is his own person. But when Cuda learns about Mrs. Santini's suicide, is mistakenly thinks Martin killed her and made it look like a suicide as he's done before. Cuda walks into Martin's room while he is asleep and kills him by hammering a wooden stake through Martin's heart.
Cuda buries Martin's body in his back garden, while over the closing credits various voices from people are heard talking to the radio show host asking the whereabouts of "the Count".
Nicole在某些镜头下难掩脸僵但举手投足的大明星风范仍格外迷人。电影涵盖元素可谓不少，从麦卡锡反共到女性主义与好莱坞studio的运作八卦，全片有一种”严肃的学院派突然想放飞一把”的质感，我个人是很喜欢。
爱人的名字与巴士底狱押韵，仇恨阿共但更仇恨麦卡锡，你代表了凡人我代表了自己，笑点世代隔阂但尊重彼此存在，演员比观众更需要一个维持幻象的魔法小屋，迷失晃神在一句“回家”的台词……群戏精彩的同时主线足够浪漫心碎，却也很理解其中内容的左右不讨好，加之索金一贯的信息量过载，难免广受差评
同为传记片，起码比塔米菲好得多，不管是摄影还是服化道都很用心，妮可穿着白色西装脖子上戴一朵玫瑰花的造型太惊艳了。
拍得太长导致整个剧情很空洞无物，妮可的戏份也不吃重，看上去像是一个半成品
勉强3星，叙事过于碎片化，想表达的内容太满而显得凌乱，片尾能稍好一点。
一个不会吸引广泛观众群的题材。就靠Sorkin的节奏和角色性格展示了。3.7星。
完全没有看过传记对象及剧集，没有啥触动，只觉得技术上处理得比较巧妙，剧里剧外现实、拍摄和旧影片穿插互相铺垫推进，表演自然是好的
這是在曾經觀看過無數次《我愛露西》歡笑的回憶裡最好的精神安慰。
前2/3就算有奥老师的美颜也很难熬，好在最后情节快了起来。人终身都在为自己的过去买单
“嘴上谈的是主义，心里想的是生意”，男女性别、婚姻家庭、事业危机、万尼亚舅舅……上到冷战意识形态之争，下到狗血家庭抓马，中间还有一条鸡零狗碎的荧屏剥削史，情节丰富到令人发指，艾伦·索金杂耍式的编剧整合，终于有一次完美调和了话痨和感情留白。结果连个奥斯卡原创编剧提名都不配吗？奥斯卡，how dare you！
聚焦五十年代最火的电视剧《我爱露西》，更多探讨Ball的婚姻问题，其背后又是一部“好莱坞往事”。
way better than any Netflix fake-ass bullshit (btw i want a home too😭😭😭😭
看前半段叙事手法有点像《曼克》感觉，一度因为超密集的台词量让人昏昏欲睡。关键很多梗不懂。但中后期所有的铺垫都汇聚起来，真的有意思，加上妮可在厚重化妆下依旧能打动人的演技，这片应该不止三颗星，加上妮可脑残粉buff，四星推荐。
她为他打下江山，他为她向全世界宣战，可最终他们彼此输了坚持和爱。（一看就是妮可冲表演奖的电影，剧本奖项也很有力，剧本非常工整和严谨，代价就是叙事逻辑过于复杂，当然角色设置也很有意思，最后二十分钟盘活了将近两个小时的无聊和絮絮叨叨。）
男人，只有挂在墙上才能安分点儿。
大概是索金最无聊的剧本了，当他的台词机关枪来拍肥皂剧的时候基本是场灾难，浪费了妮可基德曼奥斯卡级别的演技，最后那场忘词戏是属于她的影后时刻。
女性形象很饱满 但性格太偏执和强势 大概就真的会在生活中让人难以相处
传记，不熟悉原型，我仔细欣赏了40分钟和结局，主要看看奥斯卡提名的两位主演和一位男配。主演都很娴熟，妮可化妆后我只认识她的眼神，两人初次见面那天的戏很有趣，一夜风流后妮可当面打电话给未婚夫说分手。JK西蒙斯戏份太少。
好啰嗦，好无聊...legend ma发挥偶尔精彩
Luccille，一个精明、有主见、理智的好莱坞女演员。
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