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".
It’s okay.You have plenty of time.
确实如片名一般丝滑；男主是什么天使下凡，对长辈、同辈、晚辈都亲切又体贴，一时控制不住情绪还会回过头道歉，有这样的哥哥换我也舍不得他离开。其实是一则关于年轻人如何成长的故事，巴塞罗那是远方，认清现实才发现搬出家住就已经迈出了一大步；灵魂伴侣可遇不可求，但自己远不是心上人的最优选。年轻人的一无所有，是任性的底气，也是被拒绝的缘由，迷茫过后，人生的路还很长。
Dakota的声音真的好性感，本直女愿为她而弯
这样健康的家庭关系很难不羡慕吧。这样善良的男性角色很难不喜欢吧。
一个暖男的爱情故事，充满遗憾且刻骨铭心。三星。
平平淡淡流进心里。真好啊，人生；真好啊，经历。
#豆瓣电影
看不懂 不是一个环境 看完才知道这是自导自编自演 本来这种片我都不会多看一眼的
郁闷一周之后 你打开投影 这个就是最好的安慰
被片名吸引，然后从电影开头起就轻易地陷入，很久没遇到这种看起来毫不费劲的片子了。看完结尾有点说不出的失望。不过Cooper Raiff未来可期。
他们只是短暂地在对方的人生中逗留了一会儿……但男主实在是太温柔了
看不下去，男主自导自演，但是演技很差，看着尴尬；女主角美是美，但就一直是《五十度灰》演完赶场的状态，实时放电，真的不适合一个独自带自闭症娃的困难母亲的形象。剧情和台词也emmm
一个观察不一定对，只有片子有句类似“Growing up is hard”这样抚慰又煽情的废话，就总能戳中不少人心窝子哈！最好笑的一句台词是那个discount Bradley Cooper，看来男主对自己导+演水平定位还蛮准的。还要等多久好看到Dakota能胜任（大）女主的片子？
标准美好的姐弟恋，看到最后居然同样感受到了那种一别永生的悲伤
韦斯安德森的小情绪构图加一点伍迪艾伦的话痨，很不错
天啦，太好看了吧！让我想起了鲁尼的小说 聊天记录 ，都是青年向成年世界的突围。Andrew真的是那种阳光到耀眼的男生，现实生活中我可能也会忍不住亲他吧！不过看的再上头也要提醒自己，这是第一世界青年的四分之一人生危机！
crush后续的完美答案
电影节常见的那种暖暖忧伤的小甜片……技术是过关的，但是这种“非常懂事非常caring的男孩”和“似乎婚姻不幸福的熟女”故事怎么看都有点不够厚实，甚至有些帕丁顿熊。这样一个太完美的男主真的让我没办法共情，甚至不知道从哪儿下脚。 后来一看是男主自编自导自演啊，那没事了……
安德鲁是那种生气时踢了路边的草坪，下一秒会立刻用手给小草呼呼的人。他们的恋情转瞬即逝，但他们的故事里有好多好多爱。
严重怀疑导演完全就是为了泡dakoda才拍的电影，不知道是不是我有点偏激了，但是越来越觉得这种电影就纯纯的“自慰”片。
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