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".
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。
Nicole Kidman 的脸到底是怎么了？一度以为她为了接近原型而化了特效妆
两点。
露西鲍尔是50年代的电视女皇，她和古巴裔丈夫德斯合演的情景喜剧《我爱露西》曾创造过六千万人观看的收视纪录。
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。
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。
前二十分钟 我看了个什么玩意儿？？？？还有妮可的脸咋变这样了？？？？
实在是受不了妮可这张毫无生气又精致别扭的“假”脸了，技术的进步虽然让她在容颜上重回稚嫩，但却又时时刻刻不在反衬出这张精致面庞下缺失的灵魂。而艾伦·索金似乎也失去了以往的魔力，让这部电影在他的序列中看起来是如此稀疏平常。
难看到爆啊半个小时都没看出趣味来虽然坚持看完了。情景喜剧的有趣展现基本只有5%。两个小时演喜剧人的一周vs一生也不是什么难题吧，怎么会搞得这么难看的？唯一让我没打下一星的理由只有妮可了，演技的确给人印象深刻——突出而有些做作。
我妮脸僵成这样子了 还能贡献奥斯卡级别的表演
暖场和后面的对峙那场戏就是我们说的夺奖时刻
中规中矩，很工整但没什么爆发点。女神和Javier的妆发都认不本人出来了。
一如既往信息量很大的剧本，两条时间线通过访谈隔开还是很清晰的，也足够主配角发挥演技。露西是一个非常复杂的女性形象，职业与婚姻中有着一脉相承的决绝和对完美接近偏执的坚持，妮可这次演的确实很好。结尾被拯救后大喜过望的笑容，和被背叛那刻的僵直无声，两个对比太妙。
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。
美国人真的觉得自己家的一点破事都重要的要命。
得了艾伦·索金躁狂症，实在是受不了这套了……
影片讲述的那一周她同时遭遇了事业危机和婚姻危机，被非美活动委员会调查，怀疑丈夫出轨，焦虑和不安全感影响了她的思维。
索金是烂索金，妮可是好妮可。
艾伦的剧本没有感情？感情跟结构，跟逻辑从来都不相悖，难道只有“意识流”“诗意的语言”才能容得下感情？艾伦索金跟露希尔一样是个偏执狂，眼睛里容不下一颗沙子。他想通过严谨的逻辑证明自己的结论，而证明的过程就是他感情流露的过程，最后的结论就是他感情的全部汇集。在他眼里，推理的严谨程度就等于感情的浓度。或许这只是我一厢情愿的猜测，但这个猜测的基础就是我看得很感动。
哇一开场一个共产党大明星就因为是共产党要被行业封杀看的我好激动，对位置换啊，讨论的问题很特别。结果这事轻描淡写的过去了，还是在讨论婚姻话题…隔靴搔痒。
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