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".
我只能说“肮脏的大人们”“欢迎来到现实” 只要是一段关系，不管男男女女男女都逃不过人性啊！以及维系一段关系的从来不是单纯的爱情，是更多的利益与剪不断切肤之痛的千丝万缕。
真的太可爱了，是我的问题吗为什么总觉得意大利人的情绪好像catfight，大起大落像小品……双胞胎喜欢男主这个设定我真的笑死
7.9分，看了又好像没看，很平淡，可以打发时间。
而是关于"不爱了"之后怎么办
青少年本色出演怎会不好看？当异性恋家庭伦理电影天花乱坠产能过剩审美疲劳之时，甚至故事框架都无需改变，依旧狗血淋头与程式化剧情，只要把异性恋家庭换成同性恋家庭，整个电影都会清新起来，吵架也变得可爱，离婚也可以成为最完美的结局。
许久没有对着影视作品笑了，我认为从这个意义上说这部电影就已经很成功了。有些人想要从所有电影都找到深层次含义，我觉得倒是大可不必。故事情节比较简单，但剧本设置的很成功，对同婚合法后的家庭问题做了初步的探讨，并且许多细节都做的很出色，双胞胎兄妹的误解、兄妹妈妈的误解都为本作增添色彩，贡献了本片的笑点。要说有什么不足，估计是出轨那条线没讲好，出轨的原因被一笔带过了，而且最后的结局交代的也是比较仓促；女孩爱上里昂那条线也是交代不足，有点仓促；有的地方过于戏剧化（dramatic）。虽有缺陷，但总体故事完成度高，非常不错，私以为imdb评分有点低估了这部作品。
挺好的！！！纪实性和完成度都很高，剧本也很不错！就是bgm太多了然后又不要贴切，扣一分
不管异性恋还是同性恋，每个家庭都有一地鸡毛。看到后面竟然好感动。btw，手要是被绑住意大利人怕是不会说话了吧
好好笑~~~意呆的脑洞大到没边了，虽然对于他们的极端自由不认可，但是产生的冲突真的好好玩，世所不容之下的不断奋斗和坚持自我，除了性别不同意外，其实完完全全就是正常的家庭所常见的那些事情，最后基因验证之后才是最好笑的，在男主病房的那个老头三观碎了一地的旁听表情，真的太好笑了（估计就是满脑子都是wtf），哈哈~~~~话说回来，导演想表达的爱才是亲情的真实基础的意图表达得很清楚，挺好玩的一部片子
为什么总是顾家的那一方遭到背叛，两个人互相伤害的戏份太抓马了，哈哈哈哈…测来测去都不是生父，重要的还是养育之恩，最后的结尾很出彩呀，连接我们的是爱的千丝万缕
有人互相怨恨
很有趣哈哈哈哈哈好drama 看之前没想到这么drama
即使不在一起了也是一家人，还是依然会爱爱爱不完
和所有“普通人”家庭一样，自然无差别的琐碎生活故事。但我不认同出轨是两个人的事，背叛就是背叛，不要找理由
但亮点不是同性婚姻之间的争吵与孩子在特殊家庭中成长面对的问题
全程抓马，笑点十足。无论是剧情还是演员的演技都值得5星，
我既讨厌人类喜新厌旧的动物性，又依赖人类相互羁绊的社会性。
刚刚看完《关系未来式》，这部《爱的千丝万缕》完全可以作为它的一个具体诠释，同时又想起多年前看的书叫《如父如子》，作者是是枝裕和和佐野晶，也是讲述一个父亲发现自己带了多年的孩子其实出生时在医院意外调了包，但最终还是明白爱远远浓于血脉的故事。人们因爱与被爱产生联结，对“家人”的定义相较于以前真的扩大了不少～
就像Sublet里说的那样 单亲双亲 同性异性 有无血缘 这些都不是两代关系是否健康的决定因素 「孩子成长中唯一需要的是爱」
但是孩子却让这种关系出现了另一种可能
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