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".
后半段矛盾集中爆发后观感提升不少，无论如何这是一部有温度的电影（?）。
第三幕考音乐学院之前都非常打动我，Ruby的独当一面和唱歌时的情绪释放都太有魅力了！整个家庭的人物关系很真实，大家各自有内心情感需求，没有人会无私到完全牺牲自己，但又会在最关键的时刻永远站在家人这一边。最后如愿考上大学有一点过于理想化，但也想不到更好的解决方法，毕竟电影还是要给人希望的。（虽然并没有解决家庭生意的问题）
父亲听不到音乐，但却能在周围人脸上看到音乐，还是挺不错温情故事。
奥斯卡最佳影片，苹果公关成功，翻拍同名电影没想到竟然战胜了大热的《犬山记》。
和我的姐姐有某种类似的议题，但是整个电影都充满着更加鼓舞人心、鼓励女性追随自我的氛围。每个部分都写得很到位，恋爱部分高甜！一起面对困难的诚实家人们，以及何谓没有退路后才能自力更生。最后一首歌非常简单，但却让人哭死😭
露比是家里唯一听力正常的人，她需要做的，是精通手语，为家人传译，做家人理解范围内的事，自我的部分只能被掩藏，当她有机会追逐音乐这个梦想的时候，抉择摆在了她的面前，也摆在了家人面前，结尾的家人相拥纵然让人感动，却也标明了故事的俗套。
很喜欢的音乐类型电影，改编剧本比较成功，尤其是静默的一段真的是于无声处听惊雷，最后结局有些理想主义，没有交代将来的生存，比看过的其他几个最佳影片提名确实稍好。
唯一的惊喜可能是看贝利叶一家的时候觉得这个故事只能发生在法国。改编的还行，比原版更激进的用“听障”高概念提取“家庭伦理与社会规则的冲突”，但是只要先入为主还是觉得太美式了，没有原版那么简单可爱
被这电影暖到了...这个电影让人体会到聋哑人这个群体的
第三幕考音乐学院之前都非常打动我，Ruby的独当一面和唱歌时的情绪释放都太有魅力了！整个家庭的人物关系很真实，大家各自有内心情感需求，没有人会无私到完全牺牲自己，但又会在最关键的时刻永远站在家人这一边。最后如愿考上大学有一点过于理想化，但也想不到更好的解决方法，毕竟电影还是要给人希望的。（虽然并没有解决家庭生意的问题）
故事想法并非原创，它翻拍自法国片《贝利叶一家》。不过，美版要比原作走得远：故事分两条线，学歌那条线披露了女主的内心，家族线提供了动态的背景，当两条线交织时，便有了火花—她在两个维度下的共存时刻是发挥效应的关键。这之后，编导一直在操纵观众的情绪，直接推向催人泪下的情节剧模式，这很奏效，因为好哭又感人。最后，它不再单单是关于聋人家庭，而是所有家庭都能共情的亲情之爱。话说回来，剧本仍保留了丁点儿原作的法式喜剧（粗俗）时刻，不过庆幸它做了明智的减法与克制。
一部很常规的励志青春片，虽然我在爸爸摸女儿喉咙寻求共振体会歌声的时候的确流泪了，但如果这是奥斯卡最佳，还是翻拍的，就……给不了太高分了
好莱坞乏味改编一则，演员选角现实性及整体表演大加分。
能关注残疾人的生活的确很难得。但是这么寡淡平庸，每个情节都是闭着眼睛也能猜到走向的电影就是奥斯卡最佳影片？？？
“如果我们要踢你出门，就要一家人一起去做”。
7/10.
青春期喜剧居然得了奥斯卡，可以和绿皮书竞争近二十年最接地气的奥斯卡最佳影片。好看的确是好看，但我觉得Coda比不过近年类似题材的其他佳作，比如Lady Bird, Edge of Seventeen
看完只想要个神仙老师包分配又包对象（误）～脚本监督都娴熟完美一气呵成 明知现实不是如此 短暂的沉浸在爱与和平里也是好的。（麻省的Gloucester，在波士顿东北方向的一个半岛上）
duet用爸爸的视角通过观察来“听歌”的时候，真的有点泪目。虽然我什么都听不到，但我知道自己的女儿唱的不差，她从来不是baby，我从她的喉咙里、眼睛里 感受到了音乐
我是看过贝利叶一家的，听说这部coda是翻拍贝利叶，虽然我不太记得法版情节了，但我真没办法把这两部联系起来。细想想这两部名字其实是可以对调了，贝利叶一家倒是更多关注聋哑人和coda的身份认同，而这部以coda为名的电影倒是更多以聋哑人家庭关系出发，我不觉得他们一家任何人对自己本身的身份认同有啥太纠结的。虽然方向不一样，但是这部美版翻拍是拍出了自己的精气神，非常有美帝的气质，自信洒脱，自我一点点也是可以的。
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