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".
一会儿励志，一会儿讽刺，一会儿唏嘘，结局还强行拔高，感情点始终没抓到；影后该轮到劳模姐了…
传记片的基本盘，但全然是不平衡到与最佳剧本背道而驰，原型人物的弧光会被什么样的制作抹平呢？两星半
能再哆啦A梦里看到1984也是很独特的体验了。对独裁者的痛恨，是全宇宙都一样的。
Andrew Garfield，a man never gets a happy ending.平平无奇颁奖季传记片。
只要胆子够大，不管什么方式，哪怕坑蒙拐骗，都能实现“美国梦”。
蜘蛛侠和劳模姐的cp感很真实。marriage is a partnership. 非常stylistic的60年代时代片。
没达到预期，叙事流畅，服化道没问题，但是这样四平八稳、妄图在两小时内讲完一生、过于“丰满”但实则空洞的传记片注定不可能有任何作为，完全没有走进甚至根本没有走近人物内心，也无法感觉到创作者对创作对象的态度，也没有展现历史人物带来的影响力，让服化道呈现的“时代”完全沦为背景板，当然其中有一些亮点，但是Tam作为虔诚信徒、同妻又只身逆流对少数群体的支持又欠缺说服力，对男权制的婚姻和社交关系的笔触太浅，可惜了女神的表演，加菲也很不错。
有的人寻求信仰，是因为她从其他地方得不到爱。两个缺爱的人的婚姻，最终以许久不见的熟人收场，可能是最好的结局。
化妆和女主提名稳了。电影里老态龙钟“神婆”，Q&A劳模姐真人出现，简直清新如少女，太美了！劳模姐说Tammy是百分百真诚，而这时代在嘲笑真诚的人。影片前三分之一我也在质疑这是不是在讽刺，惭愧惭愧
唯一一个值得夸赞的地方，太空坦克大战的画面居然比垃圾快餐星球大战拍的还有意思！
挖掘的内容过于表面了，浪费了查斯坦奥斯卡级别的表演，她不过是一个需要爱的女人，为此她努力的去拥抱所有人。
传记片本身对人物挖掘不足，塔米·菲的宗教狂热和表演欲应该源自童年经历，但这段被过于囫囵带过，她和母亲的关系也没写出应有的张力，说到底导演还是想呈现一个心力憔悴的女性形象，演员的表演空间是舞台上下的反差，浮夸与空虚的对比，欲望的吞噬，索性劳模姐表演不错，尤其靠近结尾处独角戏更佳。
三星全给劳模姐的表演，硬生生的把肤浅的剧本给演出深度来，奥斯卡影后拿的顺理成章。本来是一个很不错的题材，但是根本没敢深度挖掘电视福音传教机构这个庞大的骗人产业。只是蜻蜓点水的“你好我好大家好，坏蛋只有一个”。加菲演技在劳模姐面前彻底崩溃，俩人最激烈的一场对手戏，只有劳模姐一个人在拼，加菲脸上贴着假皱纹，根本没演出感觉。差太多啦！
颁奖季，查斯坦，传记片。捞出三个关键词之后本片就像是配方料理，颜色考究但口味寡淡。同样刻画政治保守的女性公众人物，美国夫人的恐怖反讽在塔米菲凝固成假面的厚重眼妆之下却只能捕捉零散破碎的泪光，孤行拥抱性少数群体和婚姻与传教的盲信与前者形成若即若离的回文。迷失在享受聚光的表演和献身宗教的虔诚两者界限，造神堕落又重拾歌声的信仰危机仿佛范霍文圣母的当代美国化身，自反和解读的空间却浅薄近无。回溯童年心理史学，双眼癫狂的明亮不仅受盔甲般的化妆加持，内心狂热和表演天赋才让她的布道魔法被太空神迹传播到千万家庭。观众信徒是否有分别？为祂代言的声音究竟该如何面对名利荣宠诱惑保持所谓清廉的纯洁？查斯坦为影后之路亲自制作，女性视角聚焦父权运作中强颜欢笑粉底的裂痕，她始终无法彻底拥有自己的福音，无论作为神婆还是圣母。
可一旦虚伪的假面被撕开，真实的面目被揭露，两人瞬间从天堂般的华丽人生坠入炼狱之中。
以下话语出自娃:好看，而且还挺感动的，我看儿童电影挺乖的。这个电影充满了我喜欢的地方，而且打的也挺好的。
全方位和《里卡多一家》撞梗，流水账历史传记小作文，只拍出来狗血天真，背后的文化影响一笔带过，素材的鸡枞还不如给网飞拍个纪录片，加菲就像一个小老太太，只能劳模姐特写撑着
ummmm冲奥片，为啥加菲全程看起来就跟个智商不高的高中生一样
痴人之爱，只是她太真实了，而且非常美国，好难得她是一直追寻少数族群被神爱着，平等地爱着。劳模姐的演出值得奥斯卡最佳女主角。
需要不带脑子在影院看小哆啦/ 第一次看小哆啦的时候出现 不能拥有一只小哆啦 那就让我做你的小哆啦 这样的念头
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