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".
遇见好苗子
讲述篮球教练的电影很多，讲述球探的电影还是第一次看。
太匠气了，到最后又变成了找各路客串球星的彩蛋电影，主要问题还是不够燃，唯一的惊喜在于华子演技也太好了吧！
运动题材的电影，要拍砸可真的挺难的。本片由始至终都很套路，但就是好看呀，哪怕我妈这样对篮球几乎一无所知的人，都看得津津有味。
好看，励志又轻松，套路是有，但那么多nba球星的客串，让人误以为是根据真人真事改编的。在篮球电影里面，算是比较不错的一部。
摄影和美术在同题材片中算不错的。剧情套路还是传统体育励志片那一套，看点在于现役NBA球员与名宿的客串。
有意无意讽刺的地方也太多了：状元秀大反派华子打不过在NBA看饮水机的男主；电影里最后选中男主的凯人这赛季现实中刚把他裁掉；电影里76人管理层现状疯狂影射现实中湖人队，等等等等。最后敬告亚当桑德勒，足球是football不是soccer，看不懂足球不丢人。
很励志，亚当桑德勒不搞笑了，但还是那个能抓住观众情绪的男人。
挺戏谑的，现实里的埃尔南戈麦斯近两年状态下滑的厉害，辗转多队，到了电影里周围人确是各种惊艳的表情。不知道为什么以数字人队做背景，看到新经理后觉得很像了，但依然不喜欢这个背景。客串真多，基本随便一个镜头都有客串，故事挺差的，没诚意，不真实，也看不到纯粹的热爱，没有意义，最精彩的竟是结尾的混剪。想不到爱德华兹演了个嘴炮
你见过凌晨四点的费城吗？管理层一定是在影射湖人
确实挺俗套的 不过对NBA球迷来说值得一看
17 July 2022。四顆半星 我不愛看籃球 卻被電影後半段抓得呼吸不上來 大概是好怕這樣命運這樣坎坷的人會繼續淹沒在芸芸眾生裡 不得不說亞當斯大哥真的是演啥都有內味兒 從路人轉粉 。
励志运动题材不会太难看，但是也确实不太容易拍出新意了。
喜欢nba的应该会喜欢里面大量球星的客串，华子的演技很天然，不错
还行。ben这是带了头套吗脑袋这么大 1080P 22/06/09
篮球迷不可能不喜欢这部电影，就冲着这么多熟悉的球星来客串。
拍得很工整的体育励志题材，符合类型片的所有元素和套路，起于寒微，识于伯乐、身负过往、决于一战的套路齐备，但真正的主角仍然是亚当·桑德勒饰演的球探，在寻找新人的路上，寄托了他的辛酸往事与理想抱负，当然，其实也是桑德勒自己对于篮球运动浓浓的爱，光是看各路NBA名人客串的阵容就知道他的人脉与热忱，大量彩蛋会让篮球迷津津乐道，属于私货提纯，粉丝订制的项目了。
非常适合球迷和体育迷，片子里如此多的现役球员，教练员，居然有看到了沙克扣倒篮架的一幕。训练的剪辑很过瘾，不错的说
没有想象中的激动人心，感觉还不如看一场比赛。
终于明白为什么一直觉得Brad Pitt与《点球成金》这部电影莫名的不搭，果然还是Adam Sandler更适合这类角色。
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