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".
很工整的温情挂影片，温暖动人。全程很舒服，父母两人的个性也很有趣，整部影片最高光的地方就是女主在台上唱歌时，突然转到台下家人无声的视角，我一下子就落泪了。哪怕听不见，但也能感受到脉搏的呼吸。
（我果不其然又哭成了王麻子）
反观丁若铨，他将西学内化为生存哲学，绝不是在黑山岛「出世」，而是在小小天地里找到「入世」的新选项。 —引自不散
俊男美女是加分。
感动大哭，在当下这个混沌的时代，太需要这样一部充满爱与力量的影片，让我们重拾生活的信心。其实我们每个人都有一定的听力障碍，我们每个人身边也都有这样那样的桎梏，但只要内心还有那团火，未来总是充满希望，生活总会迎来和解。人物关系真实丰富，角色心理变化细腻流畅，每个配角也都在不多的戏份中呈现出了可供想象的人生故事。虽然总体上很老套，但真的很动人。
结局是我理想的家庭关系，把家人当作队友，也保持彼此独立，不要有count on someone的心态。Ruby太让人心疼了，是不是她有时也会希望自己是个聋哑人，这样就可以活得轻松一点。但又对爸爸妈妈哥哥恨不起来，每个人都有特别可爱的一面。
题材不新颖，剧本工整但也平庸，视听语言毫无创造力，情感动人之余还略微粗暴直接，论清新自然度也不如法国原版，这可以说是一碗好喝的罐头鸡汤，但也转瞬即逝，永不会在影史的浩瀚星河中留下任何痕迹 Oscar颁给它是嫌自己这些年恶心的不够，连带给它招黑的吧
但除了各种正确以外，这本质上是个与原生家庭的痛苦剥离却又不得不这么做的故事。
其实无论父母听不听得到，他们在我们长大之后都只能当个看别人表情，才能知道自己孩子很棒的观众，但他们一定会在远处默默骄傲着。太好哭了。
合唱团表演的“此时无声胜有声”和面试的手语翻译歌词都是神来之笔。
山下兰芽短浸溪
“唱歌对你来说意味着什么”“……生命的最爱”。家人是否理解天赋潜能对孩子的意义，与聋哑等残疾无关。尊重和支持，而不是装聋作哑只顾自身功利，才能化解与孩子之间的隔阂
每次看这种题材的电影不禁感慨真的很好看又很生气它为啥不是部国产电影。
比想象的好看！片中人物，如女主鲁比、其双亲、Mr.维老师，塑造的都挺立体、生动、个性的，所以，情感就真实，而且片子不刻意煽情，一切都自然地流露，这样更能打动人。
可以做的改动：女儿拒绝打第二句的时候，老师却打对了手语。
比想象的好看！片中人物，如女主鲁比、其双亲、Mr.维老师，塑造的都挺立体、生动、个性的，所以，情感就真实，而且片子不刻意煽情，一切都自然地流露，这样更能打动人。
聋哑家庭线的温馨搞笑超过了男友线，音乐线。励志节奏平庸，家人羁绊刻画非常好。
蛮鸡汤的，就是被营销号吹得吓死人，好天赋不该被埋没，但也需要伯乐和钱。
李濬益真是类型奇才，光看这个艺术水准颇高的黑白片，会想到他拍出过轰动一时的《思悼》，但绝对想不到他也曾拍出过《素媛》，这随便拎出一部，都够一些导演学半辈子。卞约汉也是，典型剧抛脸，《未生》里演了主角团里最末位的狗哥却最让人记住，这里根本认不出。忠武路有你们了不起。
近期看到的最舒服、最享受的历史传记电影！
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