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".
好喜欢！轻松又温馨，看完心情变好(*´ω｀*)
一个关于回家故事的变奏。电影一开始是一份没有内容的空洞的乡愁，巴斯迫切想要回去的家园从头到尾没有任何形式的呈现，他自己或者电影中的任何一个人都没有回忆过曾经的家园，与其说是乡愁推动着巴斯行动，不如说是他因为自己的错误而产生的内疚推动着他行动，最终几乎呈现为一种偏执，于是这一段关于“回家”的尝试，成了他一个人的自嗨，他的同伴们早在他成功之前认同了新的家园，观众始终难以产生共鸣。接着，意外发生，巴斯也在各种曲折中认同了现在的家园——是再老套不过而又缺乏说服力的情节——于是回家的方向发生了倒转，变成了要从回到原来家园甚至回到过去的幻想中回到现在。还行吧，只是影片开头的字幕本身便让电影有了乡愁的底色，结果却是一个与乡愁全然无关甚至是与乡愁相反的故事，会让我觉得奇怪：这真的会是安迪最喜欢的电影吗？
风风火火的漂亮女孩儿，到哪儿都是用跑的。自由且勇敢，不断去突破，感情关系要由这样的姑娘来带领。
温情满满、结构工整的老式派拉蒙电影。如果有一天我也中了大奖，我也要像杰瑞和玛姬一样振兴赵各庄！
轻轻松松开开心心平平安安顺顺利利4.878🌟
emmmm……可以理解为是一部讲解巴斯光年这款玩具的原型由来的讲解动画，里面的猫咪机器人玩偶是真的可可爱爱。
这居然是真事。不知道中国福彩和体彩能不能也出个可以让我发现的漏洞？
安迪真的会因为这样一个电影而去买巴斯吗？很抱歉如果我是安迪，我真的不会。
8.0分，不是稳赚的还得有很大的冒险和赌博，公式的成立是建立在没有一等奖中出的情况下，当然48中6的概率和30-35个数字里选5-7个号不是一个级别，48中6的中奖概率极低因而赌不中的机会较高。倘若本期一等奖出现了，那你要继续赌下一次不会出一等奖，所以迟早会赚回来的。国内彩票没有下滚规则，漏洞是不存在的，只有运气！运气！国外彩票出售金额大部分用于返奖，而国内的大部分是留下用作福利及体育事业，你买彩票就是为祖国福利及体育事业做贡献，并且给从事彩票行业的人员饭吃和过上好生活，而且我觉得正是因为前者才让很多人去买彩票，如果是为了后者就没人会买吧！所以除了运气和祖国事业别的就不用妄想了！
终于知道巴斯光年为什么总觉得自己这么牛了。“飞向太空，飞向无限。”
妈呀！这年头像这样老派轻松又有趣的电影太少了！
没有想象的那么差，就是佐格的出场和消失感觉好突兀。
打工人“下岗”退休后无所事事，因为自己数学智商了发现彩票漏洞，找到自己的才能发挥用处，很典型美式故事。
文艺青年也许会觉得这部讲投机的电影一点也不浪漫不important。其实干预财富再分配超级爽的，带邻居挣钱就能收获立竿见影的友谊，这就是现实生活里的美梦成真。
老白代表的才是真实的美国梦，可惜现实的美国梦都是哈佛小子那种自私的资本家的精神鸦片
除了前面一次一次义无反顾的前往有点动人之外，后面都太套路了
老白感觉演啥都是一副高智商的样子！整部片子节奏 故事都很强 虽然结局很美国大团圆 但是这样一个混沌的世界 多点快乐和幸福 是不被允许抱怨的 手动点赞👍
go find my next frog.....one in a week...i hope
老白的赌博故事，数学非常好的老白终于在退休后利用数学contact别人，利用彩票漏洞带动小镇振兴，和哈佛的大学生冲突了。
大卫弗兰克尔类型片功力深厚，感觉这片结尾缺点hitpoint，太平淡，前半段很棒，一对退休老大爷夫妇愣是拍出了邦妮克莱德劫匪搭档的感觉。能用自己的能力照顾身边的人甚至整个社区的感觉真棒，两个主演平淡自然。
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