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".
B 国语看的真是别扭，一度想离场…根据真人真事改编，这是很好的外在条件。电影讨论了残疾运动员处境，从顺境到逆境，生活终归平淡。剧情过于煽情，叙事平淡无奇，一部较为工整的作品。潮起又潮落，连运动员都要面对，更何况是普通人的你呢。
比起摔爸洛奇这种运动片，这片更多地是延续了香港近几年关乎与写底层与人的关系之间的讨论。像是沦落人，一念无明这样的。关于残疾人自己的身份认同，家庭关系的段落，运动员的处境，以及中港关系的一些隐喻。
少年和成年演员长得好像，而且演的很好，神态肢体都怀疑是不是真的。故事很俗套，但是还是很感人。
很感人。不知道后来的苏桦伟怎么样了，在做些什么。同工同酬，现在还是没实现吧。
体育题材的常规拍法，中规中矩三幕结构，但前半程节奏都不太好，后半程渐入佳境。最大的问题是音乐铺得太满，几乎没有空隙，很多次我都想大喊一声把音乐关掉！
当理想遇到现实，我想，没有人不会在名利金钱面前动心。
有些巧合过于刻意。但戏剧冲突嘛！可以理解！希望能够得到对于残障运动员的重视。北京冬残奥会开幕后更觉得信心运动员很了不起啊。
看哭了！觉得大家更应该关注一下残奥会，他们都太不容易了
比起摔爸洛奇这种运动片，这片更多地是延续了香港近几年关乎与写底层与人的关系之间的讨论。像是沦落人，一念无明这样的。关于残疾人自己的身份认同，家庭关系的段落，运动员的处境，以及中港关系的一些隐喻。
“所有人都當你唔係一個普通人，咁你就當一個唔普通嘅人。“”唔使驚，驚就輸一半。”“我已經輸咗2場，係咯，咁仲有乜好驚。”“
《妈妈的神奇小子》讲的是苏桦伟的故事，不过角度却是从他的母亲出发，讲述了一个伟大母亲近三十年的辛苦操劳。
为什么还港版《阿甘正传》啊可恶。还是那句话，因为电影结尾的影像资料，体育传记类电影才显得感动和弥足珍贵。导演把电影落脚点大多数放在了家庭，母爱，包括这香港残疾运动员的社会福利等等的阐述。却在剩下的篇幅里无法深刻的表现属于个人的成功。中国体育电影仍需努力，这部也算在本土类型片中做的中上了。（垃圾配音甚至不如上气）
只能证明，社会对残障人士的待遇的确很不同，普通人也的确无法感知这种痛苦，光辉笼罩过一瞬，终会散去，留下的只有家人的爱
也许都是吴君如主演，看这部戏的时候总是会想到《岁月神偷》
为母则刚，很励志，很感动，演员都演的很生动，表情，眼神都很到位。。揭露了运动员退役的现状，也拍到了残疾运动员的不易，走得慢不要紧，我跑得快，我起步是慢，但这就像我的命一样，我就是要从后面追上去
《神奇小子》亦著眼、凸顯屋村籠民的小心思，平淡之中見真情。
“我起步慢，但这就是为什么我继续冲继续追的原因，我就是要从后面追上去。”这段台词真的哭爆。既是田径的赛场，也是人生的赛场，一段真实存在的奇迹般的励志故事被搬上了银幕，充满了热血和爱。诚然片子还是有些小毛病，但瑕不掩瑜！吴君如用影后级的表演塑造了一个伟大的母亲，提前锁定下届金像奖提名。
苏桦伟的经历本身已经很动人。虽然这部戏拍得soso。男主角演得蛮好的。当妈妈是一场终身修行。
港片温情励志故事，真人真事改编！经历类似阿甘正传，前半部分描述获得冠军的过程显得过于顺利简单，没有什么坎坷和磨难，让人稍微觉得难以共情，但是电影的闪光点来自于后三分之一，同样是奥运冠军，健全人可以得100万奖励，残疾运动员却只能得几万块，一旦回归生活，靠着低廉的救济金，很难维持生活，曾经的冠军面对父亲生病，也只能选择去做邮递员贱卖金牌赚钱，放弃自己喜欢的训练……高潮部分的母子间对话“妈妈只是想找一个能帮你剪指甲的人……”“希望在爸妈离开后你能有人照顾”渐入佳境，让人心里一酸，片尾的赛场画面切入真人原型，将故事推向了高潮！片尾没有落入俗套（傻小子没能获得爱情），在比赛之后嘎然而止，配上了原型的成长照片，告诉大家他不过是一个身患残疾的普通人，但是通过他和母亲的努力，一起创造了感动大家的奇迹！
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