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".
当我很小的时候，我总会对自己说，希望自己长大后不要变成那些讨厌的大人，活成自己讨厌的样子。就一直这样长大，我一直都认为自己还是当初的孩子，直到今天看到这部电影……
虽然有些落入俗套 但是影片播放少年们的采访片段的时候就是忍不住想落泪 在这么一个混乱的大时代 听见他们充满希冀和早熟的语调去谈论或好或糟的未来 会觉得这部电影出现的时间点很妙 需要这样一部电影来承载复杂的情绪和生活 （何况我对黑白电影本就存有偏爱）
威尔史密斯演得确实很好，从步态，身段，眼神等各方面都完美演绎了原型人物，应该能获得奥斯卡提名，但我还是认为本尼迪克特康伯巴奇才应该获得影帝。
平庸老套，充斥着陈词滥调的学院派传记片，不过史皇的表演值得一座今年的奥斯卡影帝🏆
为什么他爹这么有精力，没日没夜训练孩子，还能搞这么多外遇。。。有精力这个事儿是遗传的吗
现实中这么搞的人，百分之九十九都死在沙滩上了
平庸无聊的流水线作品。万万没想到，都过去15年了，史皇的演技竟没有一丝一毫的改变。请问他演的Richard和《当幸福来敲门》里的Chris有区别吗？甚至把这两角色互换，都不会出戏，这恰恰是我最讨厌的表演方式——同质化表演。诠释不出角色特质的表演算什么表演？p.s.大威的演员完全选角失败吧，没有一点像大威的地方。OMG，水帝诞生了，就问谁不服吧，拉米和雀斑都没这么水…
来自一切方向的恶意塑造了他，痛苦注射进身体，塑造出愤怒，永远发作，根深蒂固。幸福的白人不会理解他呵护女儿的偏执方式，更不会知道这是更深层次的一种对抗，是多么艰难的一场战争。
威尔史密斯这么白开水的表演也能拿影帝，看完电影的我和刚挨了一巴掌的克里斯石头一样懵逼。
主要讲她们的爸爸，看起来是在专业人士面前不露怯，有长远目标的人。
属于父亲的传记，体育的部分拍得有些无趣，整体也缺乏一种激情感，像这种场外人的电影，还是喜欢《点球成金》，人物推进得过于流畅，更喜欢母亲这个角色的塑造以及最后的失败者教育。至此今年奥提作品看完了，最喜欢车和披萨。
片长虽然有两个多小时，但总有一种屎没拉干净的不痛快感
在她们出生之前就做好了关于她们成为网球明星的计划。。。。
四平八稳的剧本，四平八稳的表演，适合四平八稳的奥斯卡。但，传奇的威廉姆斯姐妹绝对不止这样四平八稳。期待一部《女皇威廉姆斯》
给andy roddick的cue把我激动的差点把房顶都掀了...大小威那个年代 就是我曾经对网球疯狂热爱的时期 喜欢看力量的爆发和速度与角度的搏击 迷恋andy和他的翘屁屁发球... 从昨晚到现在如饥似渴的看了好多compilation...被问到最喜欢的运动时其实一直都会毫不犹豫的说网球 只不过似乎再也没有过那种热血蹦腾的能贴在电视屏幕上的着迷坚持 不过 似乎现在这种感觉又回来了
独断专横，过河拆桥，反全职体育教育保证生活学习质量，沉着吊瘾生意经，按部就班控制欲，Ghettorella Straight Outta Compton，挺励志；Will Smith 确实可以把所有角色都演得讨喜，貌似确实从来没演过反派？
Joaquin真的是演啥像啥，太厉害了/如何和小朋友交流
#加州行观影系列#2.26新加坡飞LA机上看的。威廉姆斯姐妹的父亲的鸡娃往事。威尔史密斯可能要拿影帝了。一点题外话：电影里父亲教导姐妹俩在场上要谦逊诚实（大意），但是从妹妹多年后在场上以“我是一个母亲”来威胁裁判来看，至少她没记住父亲的教诲……
你永远不会知道门外有什么惊喜在等着你，整理好心情，去打开门吧！
中规中矩的真实改编，但从几个孩子身上真的能感受到他们的家庭氛围还不错家教很好，影片侧重点不在大小威廉姆斯如何训练比赛取得成功，而是父亲平时如何监督训练并在一个个分岔路口如何坚持自己的观点最后培养出2个网球巨星，作为父亲是负责的。看很多评论说他是幸存者偏差，我想说教育方式原本就没有好坏只有适合与否，至少在他们家有效的，未知全貌不予置评，影片能够表达出来的实在是太少了，很可惜的也是这一点，作为传记其实可以再多加一些细节，总觉得影片太过悉数平淡，也许这就是生活本身吧。
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