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".
作为一个网球迷，对于威廉姆斯家真的一点好感都没有 所以，这部电影反倒减弱了一些黑滤镜，也帮我回顾了一些网球史。
保持专注，不要害怕！
无论理查德身上有多少缺点，大小威在网球这项运动的巅峰周期，以及对社会的回馈确实与父亲的教育是密不可分的，成功来自于偏执。
精彩的故事，就是可惜电影哪怕有两个半小时，对这种传奇故事来说还是太短了。父母两个角色的刻画都非常优秀，父亲自然不用说，能获奖就说明了大家的认可。母亲的角色刻画也是非常优秀，虽然戏份不多，但少数的几次爆发都展现出了她的性格、能力和视野。
这个。。。对于能拿到奥斯卡最佳影片一事来说，就挺一言难尽的。特别（政治）正确（不是
he did it again❤️🔥 金敏喜在電影院看她在戲中所飾演的角色在電影院看她所飾演的角色的電影首映
对理查德刻画得很不丰满，以及看完之后对我毫无触动（电影中看到的，纪录片已经告诉了我），只觉得是看了一场大杂烩~ 聚焦点都在理查德身上并且我并没有从这位父亲身上产生共情，遗憾
家庭类的体育传记，大小威的成功之路。
断断续续才把这部史皇封帝之作补完。能理解影片的创作意图，但呈现出的感觉很拧巴。大威小威的故事本就是体育界传奇，无论是她们出身贫民，还是妹妹顶着姐姐名声的压力成为超越性别的网坛巨星，都是极其精彩的奋斗史。但影片却把重心放在了种族与家人上，虽迎合政治正确，却缩小了故事的格局。同时把视角聚焦于她们的父亲，仿佛父亲才是姐妹成功的原因，实在有失偏颇。尤其是作为一部传记片，出现在片名的主角却在影片的高潮部分只能做旁观者，实在没有说服力。尽管影片美化了父亲的性格与经历，但演绎出的角色仍然不讨喜，果然成功了这就叫志向远大，要完蛋了只能沦为笑话，也就是威尔•史密斯演，换一个演员也撑不住。史皇演了这么多年戏了，犒劳他一个奥斯卡影帝也是应得的，只是这一巴掌着实没想到。
还背着梅西教练去找别人训练
所以没有天才，有的只是计划、努力和少许运气
中规中，父亲的视角太强大，压倒了两个女孩，好像在说，快看，所有的一切都是父亲的功劳，只有你有一个相同的父亲，你也可以成功。
因为从父亲的角度去展开叙述，所以父权确实占篇幅，电影的主题名字也是父亲嘛，所以可以理解为冠军的父亲也不失偏差，与儿女的矛盾，与商业的矛盾，与人种的矛盾，父亲面临的更生动，电影也展现得很全面，是一部中规中矩的片子了。
拍片的水准很高，故事也讲的很走心，特别一颗星献给理查德，虽然很多人想他如此坚持都没有成功，但因为他的存在让更多人有信心坚持做自己！
父凭女贵，开始还以为是大小威的传记，结果是父亲的传记，过于啰嗦……
不管人物讨不讨喜，确实是真实呈现了世界级运动明星的一段侧写。虽然看完觉得真的是靠大小V姐妹无敌的天赋，让老爸再怎么霍霍也最终还是成功了。will smith值得小金人，完全本色出演toxic masculinity。让人思考他在Oscar上的表现是还没出戏，还是电影本身的延续 ：）
这就是一部每一个颁奖季都会出现的那种电影，而在这样的影片中，本片都是相当缺乏个性、无限贴近平庸的一部。作为核心人物，理查德人物弧光完成的拧巴和虚伪程度，和史皇在奥斯卡上的一系列拙劣表现真有点相得益彰的意思。
结尾处理的比《摔跤吧》高级，出淤泥而不染和名利双收本就是矛盾体。
那么多冠军的比赛，不选择，就选择了输掉的那场。希望我的女儿能看到。
连不看网球的我都知道她们的名字。
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