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".
这拍一点，那拍一点的。根本就没有抓住重点。浪费了这个故事。完全不想看导演剪辑版了，因为导演根本就不会拍传记片。真实影像就应该放在结尾而不是穿插在剧情中，现在这样看起来很有违和感啊。而且演员就不能选的再像一点吗？演LESLIE的人，首推陈志朋。。还好当时没有去电影院看。
拍得不错，虽然看之前带着剧情很假的预设，没想到演出了点信念感。墨西哥家庭的凝聚力，Olivia面对万家灯火的孤独感，"they love my movie"，以及城市社区的多元与活力，老奶奶的葬礼及她的一生，这些元素都挺动人的。
爱情、友情、亲情的集合，温暖而不夸张，简单却不俗套！
虽然梅姐哥哥演的真不太像，但情怀这东西真的容易让人掉眼泪～
虽然添加了不少近些年的元素与议题，但是原作的剧情设置在2006年尚且算是老旧，何况当下呢？影片情节转换有时略显生硬，但全片观感其实还可以，女主很漂亮，但这个剧本翻拍的没道理
女主浑身上下的cut气质遮不住了 有几场戏感觉她忍着不杀人（男主被前妻甩了回家对女主发疯没道理啊
别说，拍的挺好，这种电影，一般一颗星都不值
爱情喜剧果然不适合我...不过有些台词挺现实的。
最大的亮点是葬礼上追思说的那番话。短短几句话，勾勒出一个有生命力女人的一生。笑就很大声，拥抱就很有力，爱人就拼尽全力。一生就这么的踏实。
给四分不是为了电影，是为了那段流金岁月，香港娱乐业以及我们的青春。女主一点儿一点儿也不像阿梅，高出天际（妈呀，179！！！黄种人啊，长这么高多吓人）。可是那段岁月，那些明星，在时间的灰烬中，熠熠生辉。。。。。。阿九和我，工作日早上去看，包场，俩人大声评论，失声痛哭
有点像纪录片找人来还原当时场景，其实不管找谁来演主角都不会让大家满意的～王丹妮演年轻时代比后半好些
整体比较流水账，拍摄方式有点类似《阮玲玉》，但因为剧本太过零散，很难有那种虚拟与真实的呼应感。主演只能说是有几分像梅姐，但气度神韵差了太多太多，这也造成了电影与真实影像的割裂。不过，最后梅姐唱《夕阳之歌》的镜头一出来，我还是落泪了。
梅艳芳粗略简史，而且很碎，在观阅过程中，带出小时的不少同步记忆，情怀加一星。前半段略嫌平铺直叙，并无感受到梅艳芳当时的乐坛地位，后段几个节点还是把握住了，尤其张国荣不在那段，观影时要刻意控制了一下情绪。
就这完全没有排出阿梅的一生。亲情爱情友情三条线线线很无聊。首先最不能忍的是哥哥这位扮演者，脸的棱角我觉得深思张一山，从菜鸟到跳楼完全没有展现出一点点和哥哥相似的气质。关键这电影吧明明都演的不像还喜欢闪回，一对比就更明显了。一开始阿梅的登场，这张脸你告诉我是梅姐跌宕余生快要走到人生终点的一张脸，归于稚嫩了吧。总之还不如稍微串串剧情放阿梅的歌呢。而且也没表现什么就成了有担当有责任感的梅姐。
很多泪点。开场翻唱披头士乐队的歌声一响起，就带回到那个年代。“风的季节、心债、坏女孩、女人花、夕阳之歌”，梅艳芳的舞台歌声太有魅力，与张国荣的片段更是催泪，听到monica直接破防。永远记住梅艳芳穿着婚纱唱最后那首夕阳之歌的场景。
这个叫黄世宁的导演拍的两部片都觉得牛逼，把控这种温情小品很厉害，女主真是我的最爱
轻松的电影 不当情人，也可以当朋友 挺好，不尴尬
老美偶尔也会喜欢这么甜腻的电影哟，看来对人间烟火的美好追求是人类的共性。跟原版相比，剧情丰富了不少，结局俩女把渣男踢出局后拍手称快有点不太合逻辑，这一点上我喜欢原版的处理方式。但是这一部翻拍比原版要好点，主要是剧情内容更丰满了。最后男女主变成好朋友也是很不错的结尾，要是变成恋人就太刻意为之了，不贴合实际反而不美。
好莱坞讲童话故事的能力是一流的。仔细想来，咱们人民连拥有不那么侮辱智商的童话故事的资格都没有，就挺可悲的。
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