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".
很多美式青春片套路，但是也很真实感人，选择照顾家人还是实现自己的梦想，对于任何人来说都不容易。特别可爱的一家人，单纯直率，又很执拗，每个人都似乎傻傻的，但是不屈不挠，值得尊敬。
I've looked at love from both sides now,
3星，很温情，很治愈的影片， 翻拍《贝利叶一家》，内容清汤寡水，情节偏向俗套，也就没那么好了。
唯一值得注意的就是聋哑家庭的设定，让人稍微了解下他们的生活，可惜还是流于形式。小学时，院里的邻居就是一对聋哑夫妇，一起住了好几年，那时也不觉得奇怪，现在回想，算是难得的经历，聋哑人不算少，但自这对夫妻之后，我似乎再也没见过这类人，也不会想关注他们的生活。
巧的是昨天收拾屋子的时候我刚哼了《贝利叶一家》的《Je Vole》，今天搜片子突然看到网站新上了美版的《健听女孩》。
但除了某些细腻，其余过于温水煮鸡汤了。
最佳改编剧本奖：《健听女孩》，改编自2014年法国影片《贝利叶一家》。尽管故事的框架延续了原版影片，但细节上的改编，使得这个美国故事变得更臻于完美，比原作更符合现实，更耐看一些。原作《贝利叶一家》里，主角宝拉·贝利叶一家是一个农场主家庭，爸爸身为聋哑人还想着要去竞选本地市长，这个设定使得原本故事显得很荒诞，影片也因此被归为了喜剧片。
94th奥斯卡最佳影片。但是这片子实在是没啥可说。平庸老套而已。美国保守主义价值观的胜利罢了。
我就直说了，认为生活的问题只要唱唱赞歌就解决了是最大的装聋作哑——虽然总有道貌岸然的家伙会举起铁拳吓你“还有鱼吃，你就偷着乐吧！”
第37届圣丹斯电影节 评审团大奖 剧情片 夏安·海德
可以做的改动：女儿拒绝打第二句的时候，老师却打对了手语。
罗西一家不是没有爱，也不是不珍惜爱，而是他们没有认识到爱的力量！详细影评：https://movie.douban.com/review/14401338/
And when I lose my will,
因为突然发现我有点讨厌女主，所以又去把法国版剧情找出来刷了一遍。美版给女主谈恋爱的情节太多笔墨，对家人的感情也基本一直处于对抗和想逃脱的情绪，显得自私且不负责任。这导致后面的和解和转变非常生硬。相比之下法国版更多是靠误会创造冲突，至少每个人看起来都是在为对方着想。
#94奥斯卡 Apple TV小成本翻拍电影大获成功. 贝利叶一家是2015年左右看的一部电影,很感人,以至于甚至想学那首法语歌. CODA在i18n方面做的很优秀，很有美国的特色。很多人吐槽这首歌的比赛歌曲不如那首法语歌，可对于我而言both sides now也是绝对的殿堂级经典。甚至说小时候就被both sides now专辑的封面吸引了，这首歌也契合了女主的心境。（合格的奥斯卡最佳，但是艺术性绝对不足！
P.S.学会一个手语🤟，我爱你。
Ruby和Miles在台上唱着歌，突然声音被掐掉了，一片寂静，以爸妈的视角扫视着周围人的反应，这个片段很震撼！以及，Ruby在伯克利面试，边唱边打手语给家人这段，也很动人。还好，除了不相干的同学们，Ruby身边的人都很好很好～ 合唱老师也太搞笑了，“Be-rrr-na-rrr-do，发不出弹舌就别这么叫我！”
有一种你当像鸟飞往你的山的感觉，飞不出的的港湾，女主角都是受困于原生家庭，但是拥有美丽的嗓音。流畅感人的好电影，治愈且温馨。
虽然这版没能超越我对原版的喜爱，可是依然爱到不行。除了一家人的职业设定之外，故事基本跟原版一样，虽然很俗套，可是还是会被故事里那种纯粹的真善美所感动，虽然清楚故事的每个节点，可是依然会吸引着你，几首歌曲选得真好，歌单又可以更新了。声音设计依然很出色，特别是音乐会上那段消音的处理，最后面试那场戏手语一出来，眼泪立马就控制不住了。不过相对于原版最后三首歌情感上递进式的处理，这版确实是削弱了，这也是更符合美国电影的节奏了。8.5
特别喜欢这个故事，集合了很多我感兴趣的点！因硕论涉及植物谱录，也看了不少博物学古籍相关的论文，类似的历史原型我们其实也不少的。电影拍得极富古典意蕴，兄弟书信往来，千里共婵娟，明月照大江的场景特别美，想到苏轼，想到他一路被贬，也还是乐观通达地观察万物。丁若铨儒雅博学的士大夫形象，也像从古书中走出似的，师生互动很有趣。无力探索人心，研究世界运转的机理也不枉所学，那是灰色世界里如蓝鸟一般的希望，是生命力所在。
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