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".
Your witty criticism is really boring.
改成这种活泼现代的腔调也满可爱 但男主是否改的太傻开心了一点 既不unjust也不resentful 怪不得最后情书里我最喜欢的一句都被删掉了….
美式劝导 唉 在古典的庄园里 仪态却是现代人的样子 Anne的韧劲 苦闷 善良 思考 都变得虚了起来 可惜了
我求你了我真的很爱劝导，别毁她，也别毁了简奥斯丁
●最后结局，俩人腻歪。
爱在托斯卡拉，看名字导演就是在引导一种情愫，一种托斯卡拉风格的电影，托斯卡纳风格是乡村的，简朴的，但比乡村更优雅，它是建筑与大自然有机结合的风格。托斯卡纳风格将当地奶白的象牙般的白垩石，出名的金色托斯卡纳阳光，红色的土壤，浓绿的森林，葡萄园和牧场，和浅绿的橄榄树果园，更有深色的红宝石光泽的Chianti酒和鲜红的番茄各种颜色调和在一起。
既然都加入这么多现代元素了，不妨可以把背景放到现代吧。流水账的剧本和不伦不类的服装，有点浪费了美景和配乐。ps.男主角长得有点丑😰
这部电影拍得真是不错，托斯卡纳的美景，米其林星级厨师的佳肴，感觉像是在欣赏一幅油画！难得的佳片！
托斯卡尼的橄榄油一定绝佳，让见惯不怪的瑞典米其林二星大厨都惊了。
牛哇
合体，5分。
俗套的故事还是免不了让人沉醉，像其他人一样不平凡
当年RPJ多帅啊……这版男主真的没眼看，戏还差。莫名其妙强行加了一家门黑人，什么鬼哦……尬出天际
虽然有点魔改但不讨厌，达妹太美，酗酒是为了凸显女性的痛苦吧。男主太丑了，而且永远一副要哭出来的表情，感觉配不上女主。综上所述BBC萨莉那个版本还是好的，男主也确实帅。
风格不太原汁原味，且不说为了政治正确引入的有色人种，就原著的那种爱人错过，悔不当初，久别重逢的情愫还是没有充分表现出来。妹妹跳下来摔倒的那场戏看起来也有点假。总体来讲前面比后面好。可能为了迎合现代观众简奥斯汀的故事已经拍不出05年傲慢与偏见那种感觉了吧。
打破第四道墙的风格太像Fleabag了，有点太出戏。喜欢电影的色彩和配乐，作为没看过原著的人，最后结局有点惊讶。
嗯 打破第四堵墙是很能表现女主狡黠的一个方式，但！时不时就wink一个是不是有点子缺啊，以及男主为啥感觉智商不高的样子？？？？
我全程“哦莫原来还可以这么改编/笑死哈哈哈/好尬哈哈哈哈”。可以说和原著没有关联，只是借个皮囊（安本身是plain and obscurity and firm，善于观察的人，而温也同样坚定，对自我道德足够坚守，对待不同的人坚持不同的方式）。因为删去了很多线（我最喜欢安和Smith！）所以让这两个人物过于悬浮。但另一方面或许也无需执着于原著了，要重新思考“现代版改编”的意义，安时不时的“打破第四堵墙”一方面很fleabag很新潮也很搞笑，但另一方面总觉得很突兀很奇怪。感觉剧本还是太草率了，没有打磨过对话。最后安边读信边流泪真的灾难。
没看过原著，但观感不错：女主很漂亮（毕竟是演过五十度*的女主），风景很美，建筑很古典，拍摄手法很新颖。根据名著改编的电影，一般很难获得好评，因为原著党要求必须符合原著，没看过原著的人又很难体会到其中的背景，但我觉得根据名著改编的电影，应该算是一件独立的艺术作品，所以不一定强行每个细节都符合原著；改编不是错，只要改编者自信比原著改得更好。本片中男女主纠结的心态感觉挺符合当时的人物，只是主创因强行政治正确安排的黑白配感觉很突兀，更突兀的是，感觉为了打造男女主最终的Happy Ending，强行其他几对男女的拉郎配，如果原著是这种结果，则欠缺一个合理的动机解释，或者说电影没有很好地表现出来。
改编不是乱编,戏说不是胡说。——六小龄童《人物对话间》 黑人演员、黄种人演员的政治正确太跳戏了，达妹打破第四面墙的演绎方式也十分不适合简奥斯汀。作为书迷，真的是很失望……学学20版《爱玛》吧！！！
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