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".
唱歌最重要的是感觉——特别是慢歌，不是要唱出妳有多伤心，而是唱出唏嘘。唱快歌不是唱出兴奋，应该是唱出反叛。
出乎意料的治愈。没有套路的圆满，每个不完美的普通人，却都默默给其他人送去一点温情和慰藉。在男主妈妈葬礼那一段泪流满面，在这鸡零狗碎的现实中，用尽全力地生活，用尽全力地笑和爱，也许就是我们最好的对抗。
太美了女主Hollywood也超好看养眼快冲
虽然很俗套 虽然现实生活里这类故事根本不太可能发生 但是我好喜欢！！！
一个现代的童话故事，没看过原版，这个版本可以一看。不知道原版的设定是如何的，其实这个故事放在其他任何白人社会里的少数族裔身上都可以，看过之后反而有点为少数族裔悲哀。
感觉看了个mv混剪，哭的都是真人出来的时候…
三星半，没看过原版不对比，这版还行吧，各方面都还在线，故事主线简单明了，一个墨西哥裔泊车员意外介入了当红女星和亿万富翁的婚外出轨插曲中，假扮男友引发的各种笑料，倒是最后走向有点迷，泊车员既没有跟前妻复婚，又插入了自行车店主的约会，那跟女主不是一对咯。女主的颜值比较奇怪，正常状态非常美，但是形象只要不保持一作起来，我的天。。。
I don't like this story，女主最后的发型太可了……
比原版内容更丰富、更有趣，配角们都很鲜活、很出色，葬礼一段很感人。
我是想給個7分，主要是因為看到還原的幾個大場景，覺得做得真不容易。王丹妮開始要適應一下，但是隨著電影推進，眼見到她和梅姐的距離在縮小。導演說，張國榮的演員劉俊謙開拍後就瘦下去。總算「胭脂扣」那場，兩人來了電。廖子妤之前拍一部電影時，我去做群演，看到了她本人。這次感覺很不同，她有下功夫研究這個角色，並且在戲外經營和丹妮的姐妹情誼。兩個人很默契。至於那些人生片段應該放入或不放入，沒有什麼好討論的，每個導演都拍自己能夠有感受的部分就好了。我喜歡 Biopic，感受時代的變遷，看著一個人如潮起潮落的悲歡，到她去給哥哥送行，路邊粉絲喊「撐住啊！」淚奔了……
好想念他们 好想回到过去
一直期待慶功宴那裡是不是會有人扮演杜琪峰和周星馳
这部电影最大的成就，就是让人们再次回忆起这位优秀的女士梅艳芳和她此生最亲密的哥哥张国荣。当然，还有那个闪耀的香港黄金时代。
中规中矩，女主曾经多漂亮啊，现在胶原蛋白全没了。
如果不是为了萨玛拉·维文，我可能一辈子都不会去看这部电影，然而本片拍得不错，谁能拒绝一部轻松的生活喜剧呢，何况还是发生在洛杉矶的故事。片中有自我认知，有家庭，有爱情，最后所有角色的问题都迎刃而解，很欢乐的结局。很高兴男女主角之间没有爱情，只有友情，这在同类电影里不多见，而这两个角色也的确不应该成为情侣。萨玛拉仍然凭借个人魅力把这个一开始很不讨喜的角色演得让我很喜欢，但她实在不适合演这种“大明星”角色，之前在《最后的清晰时刻》里也是同类角色，而那是一次失败的尝试，她最适合演特立独行的嚣张女郎，希望她别被好莱坞毁了，近几年烂片太多，而且本片中的她消瘦了很多，颜值巅峰的《辣手保姆》也只是五年前而已。本片导演是华裔，支持华裔导演在好莱坞大展拳脚！
诺丁山式的爱情片，只不过更自立，更有性别与种族意识。偶尔看些这样的小品故事真的快乐，还有我是为了维文小姐姐的，真的是好看的时候真的好看啊！不太适合演太依靠表情的戏，，，
并不是梅姐粉丝，也不了解她，只是耳闻过关于她的一些。单看这部电影，呈现出来的那个年代的复古气息很令人向往，但梅艳芳的一生拍的像流水账，人物故事被写得不明所以，发生得理所当然，作为一部传记片却认为每个观众都了解主角，这应该是个大忌吧……所幸还能让路人产生了解梅艳芳的欲望......
因为梅姐，还是抱有很多期望的，但女主和梅姐完全是两个世界的人，看着自始自终一个表情，没有一点生活历练的脸，一直笑盈盈、温柔优雅......给我说那就是梅艳芳，我真的无法接受。 甚至在患病最后阶段，演唱会的时候，依然满满胶原蛋与目光清澈，真的好尴尬。亮点：梅爱芳演的很好，梅姐的歌任何时候想起都让人动容。
虽然很俗套 虽然现实生活里这类故事根本不太可能发生 但是我好喜欢！！！
成熟真诚有趣，还稍微给了点儿幕后小秘密，挺好一片子
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