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".
非常不喜欢这片的视角，影片呈现出的这位父亲与所要传达的意义相悖，整个观影过程极度不适！
6分，除了网球比赛拍的过于简陋，整个电影还是及格分，最喜欢就是他爸爸在网球比赛的时候并不去看比赛，而是在旁边喃喃自语。这才是正常人的反应。立志向电影。
理查德威廉姆斯有一个糟糕的父亲，这也让他并未能出人头地，活到这么大也只算是一个“被忽视的黑人”，然而他决意为自己的下一代打造更好的环境，包括重视对前几个女儿的教育，包括为新生的两个女儿打造完整的“成长计划”
非常美国的叙事，也是关于对“父亲”的赞歌。还是能看到强烈的父权身影，但我也看到了“人”的存在。不罕见的描写父爱的方式，却是现实当中，少见的父亲形象。考虑到90年代美国的黑人文化和历史背景，能培养出一对儿网球世界冠军，幸运背后，更多的也是倾注的心血，那个父亲的plan，还有那个母亲的干涉和支持。讲述父亲的故事，也不再把母亲过分埋葬，讲述家庭的故事时，也不再把苦大仇深放在第一。以一场失败的比赛结束，虽败犹荣。这部电影尝试去诚实地展示一位自大也务实的父亲，更多也展示了父亲在教育当中，对孩子不吝啬的夸奖、赞美、信任与肯定。我依旧认为，我们需要这样的电影，在这样父权的社会中，让父去承担应该承担的责任。
美国虎爸 不过有目标且一直在努力前进的人值得尊重 史皇演的没话说啊 一掌拍出个影帝是玩笑啦
27.59世界上最坚韧，最强大的生物就是懂得独立思考的女性
按枭雄片的拍法来做家庭片，偏执屌丝带着全家逆袭的大爽文，为了冲奖夹带一些相对生硬又不太落地的政治元素，不过我觉得还是挺好看的，但我没看过《摔跤吧爸爸》所以没法对比，以后以后看完《摔》再看看需不需要调整评分。这片受众本来就是给望子成龙的父母看的，蛊惑性还可以，适合给想培养出下一代谷爱凌的中国家长们放给子女看哈
典型美食鸡汤片，有一说一，老威廉姆斯有这么多戏吗？还是非要强行加戏，史皇这表演都不如《当幸福来敲门》，特别寡淡，谁来都能演。
故事来说没什么劲，但大小V的传奇人生一定是震撼了。 他们的球技不是很懂，但他们的爸爸一定是打了一手进退皆可的好球了。 少数篇幅有提到爸爸的偏执，但表达的并不好，感觉是为了政治正确删掉了特别多反面的情节，并没有很立得住。
电影拍得还是比较励志的，信念和鼓励很重要。
写给每一个即将看这部电影的人。一，这不是部励志电影，这是部真实传记电影。二，当你觉得理查德是主角的时候，不要忘记他的女儿和妻子比他更伟大。三，当你觉得理查德很糟糕而他身边的人都如此完美时，不要忘记理查德经历的一切和他付出的一切。总结，理查德身边的人都是天使，而他本人是一位凡人勇者。
#95thAcademyAwards# 全程都是饱满激昂的情绪…女儿从出生前就被决定的命运，Richard Williams总让我想起水树奈奈的父亲。
父亲在大方向上是睿智目光长远且坚定的。运动类的传记片总是很容易带动人的情绪，如摔爸，如此。
鸡娃成功后说什么都是对的 娘亲在厨房的骂戏👍 ego大到离谱…最后的真人录像让我看完想看大小威打网球
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。
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 ：）
中规中矩没有断半夜毫无亮点的传记电影，聚焦了网坛传奇威廉姆斯姐妹的父亲是如何培养出这对姐妹花的过程。威尔史密斯还是老戏骨啊，非常自如的演技行云流水，提奥斯卡男主应该没问题了。这片子政治正确又是话题电影，奥斯卡提个最佳影片和最佳原创歌曲也应该没啥问题吧。
其实一般， 当了解俩姐妹的电影看。史密斯里面也没有太多体现演技的地方啊
典型的被美化的商业冲奥片，聚焦的人物有点混乱，与其说是传记片，不如说是家庭片，整体结构四平八稳，没大问题。时代背景加诸他们身上的，是肤色与体育之间的政治经济关系。
故事其实蛮工整的，而且也没有什么拖泥带水的地方，关于美国梦仍是那么明显，不是人人都可以轻易成功。不多不少带有政治正确吧，种族歧视、性别歧视等等，都踩在了现在的风口上。
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