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".
剧情有点落伍有点迪士尼。如果早十年可能对里面的本色任务如数家珍，奈何基本已经退役篮坛了。
Best nba movie I’ve ever seen.
虽然剧情有点俗套，但是就是喜欢这种热血电影，最后一连串NBA球星剪辑真的cool。对于球场上的挑衅，让我想到2006年的齐达内和马特拉齐，这种事吧，真的很难控制啊。
老套的故事，但是因为有大量NBA现役球员以及街球手的加入，看着还是很热闹。顺便一提的是，演Bo的埃尔南戈麦斯刚刚被裁掉了。。。
足球烂透了，不是吗？顶级球人除了拼天赋和纯粹热爱还得把篮球当自己从小失去的亲情来弥补，有些人就是一直摔倒。亚当桑德勒联合詹姆斯做制片人瞬间懂了为什么能这么拍，赫尔南戈麦斯在NBA就是不上不下的角色球员，但不代表他不行，游戏里也巨好用，看看在西班牙国家队，绝对的首发级别，不找黑人球员也是政治正确，但是能在街头找到能进NBA的人这个时代绝对不可能，找来教授教山姆高德，骨头单挑也不行。能做到请这么多传奇加现役球员营造真实感足以吊打以前的所有篮球励志片，为什么剧情还这么俗，也是这类电影某种局限性了。全靠桑德勒撑，但最后球员通道出场的时候还是被打动
虽然想打高分，但真得有点尴尬，甚至都不怎么热血…
一个NBA球探与一个西班牙街头球星的故事，拍得很好看，故事讲述得跌宕起伏，也挺励志。看完此片，才对NBA的选秀制度有所了解，也挺惊叹于美国对球员的训练如此专业且如此大的运动量。一个成功的明星，异禀的天赋，刻苦的努力，科学的方式，再加上点机遇，这几点真是缺一不可。看美国电影，真是能学到不少知识。
几经波折
标准的美式励志体育童话,工整 没有新意,但是一众NBA大牌来助演还是很给亚当面子,76人几乎倾巢而出,而且詹皇还是共同制片人.但是主演埃尔南戈麦兹其实在NBA已经沦为边缘人了,而且公开表示他在凯尔特人一点都不开心 队友都很自私,最后的一组镜头却是他穿绿球衣,就很有意思了.
辱黑了，在运动片里安插反派真是非常过时的做法。
亚当桑德嘞都这么老了？都不笑了？
运动励志片永远是这个框架 换成足球就是《一球成名》 但也挺好的 闲暇时候看一看
我太容易被运动片带动了，又重回当时看nba时候的心情了
基准线励志片，勉强及格。
老詹制片，一群NBA群员在线打球，一群NBA老熟人客串，牌面很大啊！再晚拍一年76人就该有哈登出现了哈哈哈哈
粉丝电影。亚当桑德勒面儿忒儿大了吧，篮球圈的重磅客串不少啊。爱德华兹：我就是要演小坏蛋，倍儿爽
亚当桑德勒适合演这种 少祸害我们屎尿屁了以后
这是什么篮球软广？一半时间在拍帅男人练球，还有一半时间拍的投篮集锦，而我这种完全不看球完全不认识篮球明星的人也看得津津有味。
三星半，想起曾經初中時瘋狂看籃球的熱血日子。
我不是一个篮球迷，亚当桑德勒是我看这电影的唯一理由，没想到他这么正经，不过说实话，在野球场上找到一个这样的人才，只能说是拍电影。老婆很讨厌，既然这么不信任自己的丈夫，当初嫁他干嘛。
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