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".
和儿子们“逃出”庄园的快乐打动了我，与一个小时前的压抑、自残和“作”相比较，这样的快乐显得太美好了。
感觉就是 只展现了一些戴妃的“症状” 但不分析病因 也不给好好治疗 看得我又难受又无聊
两星半，这片子就该给十岁左右的小孩儿看，就像我小时候看的《非常小特工》似的。
Why so serious? 一看就是Shawn Levy会拍出来的电影啊！小男孩挺灵的，虽然这样的电影发挥空间有限，但还是挺喜欢的。最后居然还挺感人。
励志片，父爱如山，送俩儿子一人一双新鞋那幕，为人父也很感动
2星，故事清汤寡水，但可以带小孩看，寓教于乐。
过于言之无物了。翻来覆去就那么几个符号，又是摆造型，又是凹镜头，还要仿古搞配色，时装秀是吧，真看麻了。小k用力造作的表演真心喜欢不起来。另外致敬《1921》日剧跑也太搞了。
像是JJ艾布拉姆斯用《回到未来》的方式又拍了个星战，想法不错，概念已经老的发黄了，所以干脆抛弃一切逻辑放开玩，仅有演员魅力比较抓人，温情部分还是挺抓我的。
这种传记片不该给迪士尼拍，拍得太理想化，太像童话了
喜欢看NBA,字母真的是天赋满满，但毫无疑问，他真的是极其努力的巨星。
致命的又想拽理论又不想解释理论的烂科幻……父子和解与自我和解交叉的感情点倒是有点意思
向所有为孩子付出一切的父母致敬
这种传记片不该给迪士尼拍，拍得太理想化，太像童话了
字母哥这部影片把最大的篇幅留给了父母和家庭，对希腊很克制的表达了复杂的感情，nike 很有意思的在明面把自己描述成精明的商人但是却永远是穷孩子向上攀爬的第一双球鞋
Netflix有时候就是会花大价钱来请一群豪华的卡司来演一部儿童向且无关痛痒的合家欢电影。
嘻嘻，有时候就是想看一部这种不用动脑子的科幻片子。
结尾处一声声给字母哥的MVP呼声中我真的被感动到了 自从那年垫脚欧文后 字母哥乃至整个雄鹿队的口碑都断崖式下滑——我不想给他找借口 这动作本来就是不对 不过我们也不能因此就否定了这个人传奇的一生
本来字母哥的故事既有激情又跌宕起伏，但是怎么拍成这样了，感觉就像是天上掉馅饼似的，我仍然十分相信，他是通过经过了许多电影中没有拍出的磨砺才成为了今天的自己，所以很遗憾。
就电影本身而言一般，基本就是体育成长类电影的俗套，和字母哥的真实成长经历相比差了许多。很久没关注NBA了，不过字母哥的大名还是知道，继贾巴尔之后带领雄鹿拿到队史第二座总冠军，基本能确定入选名人堂！没想到成长经历如此坎坷，不过看了一家的合照，五兄弟配得上希腊怪人的称号，三兄弟拿到总冠军戒指，两兄弟还同在雄鹿队，这也算是创造NBA记录了！
字母哥个人传记电影，兄弟俩共用球鞋、面临遣返的危险，但是父母不轻言放弃、轻易沉沦，孩子也确实有天赋够努力争气。影片算不上精彩但足够励志。最后一段真实影像是最精彩动人的地方，字母哥说好的父母能看到孩子的未来，说的真好啊。3.5吧
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