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".
基德曼的脸是怎么了，胖了？肿了？还是特效了？怎么那么不自然，像另外一个人。剧情硬塞一大堆元素，然后全用对白表达出来。比《芝加哥七君子审判》差太多，故事性也不行。60岁的艾伦·索金还是应该找个更好的本子。最近怎么这么多即话唠又催眠的美片。4
当太看重一个东西而产生患得患失的状态，对一件特别微不足道的事情近乎疯狂的吹毛求疵，恐怕这个时候她身边的人都会觉得她疯了吧...爱真的是天底下最让人捉摸不透的东西，深陷其中就会使人失去控制。
从过于跳脱的情节编排和一众人伶牙俐齿的攻讦里，争斗、偏执、痴狂、坚守，粗看是为了这个剧，实则还是延续那个爱人与家的梦，哪怕只是在这方舞台上；最终危机化解、观众欢欣，戏照原样演了下去；现实中Lucille和她的Desi最终也没能变成the Ricardos，只剩唏嘘。
当太看重一个东西而产生患得患失的状态，对一件特别微不足道的事情近乎疯狂的吹毛求疵，恐怕这个时候她身边的人都会觉得她疯了吧...爱真的是天底下最让人捉摸不透的东西，深陷其中就会使人失去控制。
突然发现威尔与格蕾丝的女主黛博拉·梅辛从五官到表情都很像原版露西啊，也就比妮可松弛贴近50倍吧
有top hat和swing time海报，又一部离婚，不由想起塔米菲的眼睛
锁精剧本越来越烂，导演技巧毫无长进，《芝加哥七君子审判》就看得我头大，这片更糟糕，剧情稀烂不说，剪辑简直混乱到家了。全片唯一的优点就是传奇演得确实不错。
抛却所有的电影技巧，这个故事看的人很伤感…一个如此丰满的女性角色和Nicole are lucky to have each other.
结局有一点难过，两张手帕一出差点泪目， the last show可以算是Nicole演艺生涯的高光时刻了，失神那一段的眼神、演技拿捏得死死的！感觉那一恍惚N多年婚姻生活和Lucy自己在好莱坞摸爬滚打的经历都融进去了，狠狠爱了！还有她对home的执念也让我很感慨。离婚就要手起刀落干脆利落，抓到出轨第二天早上就签离婚协议一点儿也不拖泥带水，拿给CBS傲骨剧组他能拍七季，给人急的。
拍的有点杂，主要是想在作品/现实/过去中跳跃的时候剪的混在一起。但节奏还是很好，表演的节奏，画面的节奏，看起来都很舒服。
全靠Nicole一个人挑大梁，剧情稀碎，很容易就走神了，全程不能投入进去。
就电影而言真的又烂又长，妮可基德曼确实把女人的歇斯底里与神经质都拍出来了，问题是真的很难看
服化道奖基本拿了，想说妮可还是个好演员，换了眉毛的妮可美太多。种族➕女性的主题实在，太像看国内红色电影——有原罪
实在是讲了太多东西了，女主角的婚姻困难、剧本问题以及对她是共产主义者的指责，还穿插了一些闪回，索金其实已经克制了自己太多，但是作为传记电影，还是太匠气且，太繁杂了，让表达政治观点超越了讲述人物故事，他明明是个天赋极高的编剧，没必要像这样子生怕别人看不出来似的什么都往里面写。
一周的时间被剪得这么碎片化 一个女人再成功心里渴望的也不过是个丈夫会回家的家庭
三星半。妮可好多镜头都很像格伦克洛斯，面孔可以通过各种手段修复和保持，但是她的嗓音出卖了她，已经不如巅峰期了，但她仍然具有优势，围读会一场戏，她高挑的身材，手插在裤袋里挺立，只一个pose就把整场戏完成的相当漂亮。她在演想象拍摄的戏份也演得很好，专注专业令人信服，一般演员演一个过渡，一个状态，她有一种明确的东西在那个表情里，妮可确实是静态表演的高手，那场坐在办公室中望着海报等待的眼神也特别好。高光时刻是最后，丈夫在戏中戏里说lucy,I'm home，她停顿，你不知道她是否真的忘词，但是妮可通过这段戏中戏的等待回响，头定住，眼神扑闪，在情境喜剧里注入了奥斯卡级别的表演。
整套下来剧本非常扎实，一板一眼，循序渐进，1960年的思想和观念只是一个故事罢了
看了几分钟强烈感觉到是艾伦索金的电影，看之前并不知道，可见其识别度有多高。这一次他选择了一个可能只有他自己感兴趣的题材，依然把演员嘴巴当机关枪使，但显然并不是所有故事都适合抖机灵。电影里鲍尔对于对白的执拗是对自己尊严的维护，而艾伦索金对于对白的执拗则仿佛在掩饰自己的疲倦。电影通篇被拐弯抹角且无节制的对白塞得密不透风，除了结尾那几秒没有任何留白和意境可言。索金最大的长处也是他的短处，他创造的角色也愈发趋于雷同。对于尝够嘴炮甜头的索金，好像忘了此时无声胜有声的道理。我很期待索金拍一部无声电影。
说难听点，没看完就有一种“这种片子根本没必要拍出来”的感觉，而且try too hard to be funny。感觉片子想讲三件事情，然后闪回来闪回去一件都没讲好，再穿插进那个年代好莱坞保守和性别歧视，就更是没重点了。针妮更是和巴登一点化学反应都没有，而且针妮真的要少打点针了，脸都完全动不了了。
真的就花了整整3个晚上才撸完整部片子，传奇的演技是真的在线啊，尽管她脸上打的针都快僵硬成一块老面锅盔了，但这么多年过去，还是吃她的颜啊！
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