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".
催人泪下片。我觉得她活得太累，她觉得是自己的选择，而又是什么造就了这样的选择。
这部电影的定位很准确，就是要来赚你的眼泪的，母女情+绝症+扶弟魔+阿尔兹海默症+不伦之恋……所有最能催泪的题材都让一部电影集齐了，势必要对观众的经历做一个全方位无死角打击。
强行制造煽情，狂戳观众泪腺，还美名其曰为“真实、感人、细腻”的片子滚出屏幕。
之前点映时买的特价票看的，心想占了便宜就别拆人台。忍了很久，今天上映终于能好好聊聊。电影当然有好的地方，青岛上下崎岖的路、错落的屋檐，以及柔和的光。还有些动人的小细节，车站出来牵手，一家人在天台上拥抱。但我受不了徐帆的作。再看看女儿在京圈工作，吐槽综艺，很难不让人联想到冯小刚，记得看多年前的一段录像冯导妈妈也久窝病床。再到莫名其妙拍个四川火锅店。想起一句评价：他心油腻如昨。让我觉得沙东葱味儿很重的地方，一个由医生、老师组成的传统家庭。女性被要求顾家，被限制在这点空间里，才会去想着插手别人的生活。这点东西不反思，哭哭啼啼解决不了问题。有道理的是只有在人将死时，才能深刻感受到她的苦心、她的好。观影时后座两个女生不停的在抽泣。最后说一句冯导的只有芸知道拍的挺好，我很喜欢。
是个不错的广告导演，镜头利索，但只会拍情节，不会拍人物，更遑论故事。妈妈是每个人的哭点，哪怕是这些不那么连贯的碎片，差不多从妈妈去车站接女儿我就开始痛哭，我妈基本被照搬了70%，好多情节我都经历过😭。不管是妈妈还是爸爸，不管多久没见，多久没说过贴心话，家人之间的向心力是永恒的。😭导演再多读点书，再多些文学性和深意，就是《女人，五十》了，
故事很套路，但感情过度溢出如我还是忍不住流了很多眼泪。不喜欢女儿去南极的设定，真就落实了片尾曲“我偷走你的梦”。值得称赞的是母亲去世前的最后一个镜头，导演选择的是夫妻而不是母女。妈妈不应该只是妈妈，中国人的亲子关系不应该总是互相亏欠。
母女关系是最有普遍代表性的那类，身为子女的观众们看完此片，或许能有效改善和母亲的关系……几天。
医学生看到眼泪笑出来，一点常识都没有。这也拍不好那也拍不好，真的是看了个寂寞。关于你妈子宫肌瘤的一切，我一点都不想知道！！！
朴实真挚！流了我一吨的眼泪和鼻涕！致敬赵导！
徐帆傻傻地笑着，你本以为她一开口会很出戏的时候，她却不留痕迹地让你感动。
中央六套在放，陪我妈看的。韩剧里二十年前用烂的那套煽情技法，直接被现今的你朝电影工作者拿来放在各种家长里短的叙事中。
宝贝 妈妈等不了了……
啊？据说你也用《你的婚礼》那套“痛哭视频营销法”？那给你1星。尽管我没看过，但你恶心到我了。
3.5 挺不错的，听说是改编韩国的，但本土化做的相当不错，表演也都在线，煽情稍微有点点过。
始终还是接受不了徐帆老师的演技，总感觉用力过猛！感受不到角色的真实性和生活感！
影片中的妈妈是不容易，但全家人除了她其他人都是SB这个设定，也是够抓马的。
据说是大部分翻拍自韩国片《世界上最美丽的离别》
徐帆前半段说话状态很奇怪，一直吊着嗓子，哎呀，宝贝呀，怎么了呀，我寻思着母亲在这个年龄是这样的状态在家说话的吗，不是吧。而且中间有一段和女儿男朋友说话的时候是可以“稳”的，整个人的状态更像“母亲”。
还可以吧，改编的算接地气了，可能有新时代的女性无法理解徐帆演的这种传统女性的价值观和世界观，但是中国确实不乏众多的伟大母亲，不能说这种方式不好。
很久不见的《渴望》类型片。虽然一切都很刻意，但是还是不争气的哭了一路。妈妈有种现在很难得的隐忍侠义，传统文化的代表。可惜大侠要么萍踪侠影，要么入世难免吐血而亡。普度众生先要爱惜自己，显然妈妈并没有做到。但是最后妈妈尊重自己选择和他人选择的智慧，又很超脱。一个人一种活法，看山看海做人，所以又都挺好。
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