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".
华金对着麦克风的独白 与轰鸣配乐和车流画面的融合 无数次跳戏到her 只不过这次似乎没那么孤独了
《摔跤吧，爸爸》网球版，理查德奉行素质教育。但一家7口、大小威廉姆斯的成功，故事里有6女1男，为啥主角选唯一的男性爸爸？哦，奥斯卡需要的主旋律。不合格的体育题材片，看完都不知道网球是咋回事，也不会对网球产生好奇向往，还算啥体育题材，披着体育皮的温情励志片。2小时正片不如片尾纪实片段2分钟。
华金像只毛绒绒的大熊，挺舒服的。虽然不有趣。到结尾告别时感到忧伤，记忆是不公平的，也许Johnny会记得，但9岁的孩子会长大到不再在乎有人曾是best friend。或者说长大到这种柔软亲密显得尴尬，只好当作遗忘。
励志传记黑人冲奥片，每个元素都注定了这肯定是一部“难看”的电影。
艺术价值不高，也有点pua。但还是推荐给家长们看看。话说老爸的运动夹克都挺好看的。
完成度比较好，这就是传记电影的传统标准模板吧，没什么特别有新意的地方。
大小威的伟大无需赘言。 小威几乎就是女网的goat 黑人的超强爆发力确实让两姐妹受益良多。也很难得有个这样有远见的爸爸。
这电影好温柔！声音处理非常好，给人的感觉就是非常安心。但它竟然不是纪录片！！是演的？？！我心碎了。
一路都在落泪。when it started with fungus, you know it’s going to be good. What an amazing casting. A bit American centric though. Goddamn the reflection on motherhood. Single child no support system. Different family systems. Hmmm. Human connection, expression of emotions, it’s ok to be not fine.
想起了我的外甥，感觉人物非常像我俩。我是个热情又情绪化的舅舅，也爱穿匡威，同样敏感又内向的人。外甥是个充满能量，嘴巴永远闭不上的小孩，聪明又同样敏感。我们来到这个世界，一前一后，孤独，空白，彼此的连接是如此重要，我们都需要呼朋引伴应对寂寞。虽然我们永远不能完全互相理解，但至少身边有人作伴，也是一件幸事。缘分，巧合，也是我们最重要的东西。即使记忆会模糊，会消失，但正是这些会消失的东西组成了我们，使我们成为我们，不要担心我们彼此会忘记，因为我们彼此的一部分，早已融入我们的身体，即使我们不再想起那些日子。
PFF#….5? Potentially my fav one
影片也侧重于父亲角色 所以体育比赛的场面拍的比较马虎 也可以理解 还是不错的传记片。
这种全篇马后炮的剧本是怎么进入剧本黑名单的？
Will的表演上了一个台阶，洗掉了那种锐利和帅气，沉静下来扮演一个父亲。当然化妆帮了他很多，但那种走路的姿势，腿和肩膀的佝偻，说话的语气，细微的表情，都和他以往的任何角色不同，加上这是他第三次提名，他获奖的可能性比本尼更大。片子偏向温情轻松，这个父亲穷到沟里但是掌控一切，心理素质堪称顶流。
整体可看性还是可以的！尤其是在体育经济学上的淡彩几笔，不深，却又人人惊叹！
作为动作传记片，这部的切入点确实新颖，没有把重点放到大小威廉姆斯身上反而讲述了老爹的故事。这个角色十分立体，但是感觉并没有表现出邻居所说的严厉，相反理查德对孩子们都十分温柔。一些细节处理的不错，比如黑帮的支线；但有些细节又感觉缺失了，比如小威廉姆斯的部分。
15-097美国《呼朋引伴》
作为动作传记片，这部的切入点确实新颖，没有把重点放到大小威廉姆斯身上反而讲述了老爹的故事。这个角色十分立体，但是感觉并没有表现出邻居所说的严厉，相反理查德对孩子们都十分温柔。一些细节处理的不错，比如黑帮的支线；但有些细节又感觉缺失了，比如小威廉姆斯的部分。
父亲造就了女儿，女儿成就了父亲。三分之一的体育片、三分之一的家庭片、三分之一的人物传记，一整部美国主旋律电影。即便他成功培养出了两个超级巨星，我依然不喜欢这种教育方式，我是指打球这方面，做人那方面的教育还是赞同的！
开头看有点儿像《当幸福来敲门》的意思。好多运动明星大神背后都要有坚持不懈的父母。今年奥斯卡鸡汤略多。
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