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".
拍的是一个刚愎自用的爹，我看到的一个温柔支持的妈，种族歧视我没看见多少，看到的更多的是父权，虽然这个父亲已经好于95%的父亲了
Update：再也不看洪了➡️再也不一个人看洪了
为什么老是扫别人的兴
故事流畅， 节奏稳定。 可贵之处是优良的家庭教育意识， 以及社会脱困意识的体现。 剧本其实非常平庸， 当然了， 运动传记都一个鸟样。 相比《摔跤吧，爸爸》《印度女孩》 对中国观众来说既缺少感官上的新颖， 又缺少土美土美的舞曲冲击， 相比《妈妈的神奇小子》， 又少了一份坎坷崎岖带来的感动... 整个观感平平无奇， 不痛不痒不牵强， 不出错＝奥斯卡水平？
太好看了吧，一个耳熟能详的真人故事能拍得像全新故事一样。
一些傻子因为这片没讲太多大小威的啥啥而打了低分，但它们估计没注意这片其实是大小威父亲的传记片……
洪常秀三板斧：生活巧妙变虚构；创作观念大讲堂；公然炫耀金敏喜。一再把自己和盘托出，虚构也许永不枯竭，但内里那个洪常秀已经差不多要被穷尽了。
感觉一切都得到的太容易，全程金手指，没有触动
有句刚句，作为传记电影，拍得还是可以的，电影里的夫妇和真实夫妇气质还满接近，不过要不是威尔斯密斯颁奖会上打了人，我还真不一定来看。看完感受就如同当年哈佛女孩的感受似的，其实，孩子的成功事后总结出很多，比如父亲的偏执、慈爱、对对手的尊重、对改善环境的强烈愿望，然而，这一切并不一定能早就威廉姆斯姐妹的成就，也许成就她们真正因素就是她们的天赋，而已，当年哈佛女孩、谷爱凌的成功也一样。想明白这个事，就不觉得这个父亲有多牛，也没觉得斯密斯那么配拿小金人。
作为一个母亲，我看了这个颇为触动，从小正向鼓励孩子是有多么重要‼️其实以前不喜欢这对姐妹👭，但是看了电影改变了看法，网坛上能出现非白人的世界冠军意义非凡，为她们骄傲。
3星半，从哪方面看片子都属于讨奥斯卡欢心的路子，除去他们的父亲，影片更多是探讨威廉姆斯姐妹成功背后的深层次原因，顺带往政治正确靠一下，想不出这个角色除了史皇谁更适合，希望今年奥斯卡给一个影帝吧。
太好看了吧，一个耳熟能详的真人故事能拍得像全新故事一样。
will smith演的不错，best picture是指定拿不到了吧。比起往年的I tonya，既没有体育精神，也没有人性深度，父亲的成功学视角非常无聊，还不如从大威小威视角来拍。
#94th Oscar#最佳男主角 中规中矩 体育 传记都是陪衬 家庭 种族才是重点
拍的很《摔跤吧爸爸》，非常主流的普世电影，想必漂亮国观众会喜欢，拍摄角度也非常值得国内体育题材借鉴。威尔的表演感觉还是占了些人设的光，当然拿小金人也不意外啦，但私心还是希望卷福或加菲得，就这样。
他有五个女儿，他在保护女儿，远离小流氓的骚扰。他在保护女儿，远离贫穷的禁锢。他在保护女儿，远离利益的驱使。他在保护女儿，远离金钱的定价。
【7.5】自己的成功需要谦虚，他人的尊重需要赢得，不公的权利需要斗争，实现这一切，还需要整个家庭的互相理解与支持。运动片的尾段总有一场盛大又揪心的比赛，没赢也算是不落俗套，而这一切又是成功的开始，是必不可少的过程，这让片尾罗列的“实绩”更加震撼。全片生活气息很浓，所有人都活力十足，观感自然舒适，非要说差点什么，可能就是太“正”了吧。
不算是纯粹的成长教育探讨题材，也不是准备以亲情故事打动观众，更不算是纯粹的体育励志鸡汤类影片，剧作者既然将主角两位世界冠军的爸爸作为主角，是否还可以对这部充满争议（当然现在成功了，争议也就烟消云散了）的父亲的心路历程做更深层次的探讨和演绎呢？难道作者的目的是单纯将这位倔强固执的父亲演绎出来，将如何打造更适合自己的子女教育方式和思路的课题留给观众自己去思考吗？还有就是种族和性别平权的观点在影片中的刻意强调，反倒是稀释了观众对影片主旨的直接理解。这是个很好的题材，但是否拍成这样是最好的选择呢？
黑命雕，黑命贵，黑命做啥都是对！一个自负的狼爸，撑起女儿的一生？片中连妻子都说了，你只是畏惧自己而已，结果一句话老爹就一百八十度大转变，角色彻底洗白。第二幕让女儿们谦卑，第一幕自己却极为自大，当然也可以这么拍，只要把对黑人混混那段拍明白就好（自我救赎），结果拍成了啥？一个没有开枪就获得胜利的人。（这也是片中理查给我的最深印象，导演还不如最开始就拍大小威廉或者母亲呢）
真实传记好看，但我也挺想多看看小威的镜头和故事。
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