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".
而影片里的男主也很励志，但是感觉表现的还是不够好，事先已经跟他说了对手会用非常无下限的垃圾话来干扰你的情绪，结果他还是中招，而之后虽然是赢了对手，但是对手为啥就不再说垃圾话了？
训练对慰问他妈的脱敏，对手慰问他闺女就怒了😀
没说的那么好吧。除了训教那部分有些意思，完全是麦凯公式的标准套路。主要我也不是76人或者凯尔特人球迷，就很无感。说什么NBA75周年献礼片？NBA春晚？NBA全明星再垃圾都比这好看100倍，春晚必须是全明星好吧
影片既真實再現了聯盟各種角色與人物的生存現狀，也直觀展示了球員的各種陋習，骯臟的小動作、對新人的霸淩、噴各種垃圾話，當作花絮來看依舊妙趣橫生又無比真實。它用一些小小的切入點，讓我們知道優秀的體育聯盟是如何運作的，有多少人在為之工作，而電影還只能非常簡略地表達，斯坦利是聯盟千千萬萬基層工作人員的縮影。印象最深的就是貫穿全片的那句「you against you」，我們永遠都是在和自己比，比自己更強才是真正的強大。
这个结尾，有点东西
对于一个篮球迷来说，就中间那段训练很有趣，“训练你的这一个月是我最开心的时光”……然后其他的，逻辑性太弱了，毫无吸引力，当然，男主的表演一直很精彩。
通过各种手段终于进入联合选秀！一只喷垃圾话的反派是爱德华兹，还有很多nba球星客串。
写给篮球的情书，人到中年，还能搏上一切，再次吹响梦想的号角，简单的像一个童话故事，但中年人，有过篮球梦的中年人，有谁能抵挡得住这种零度可口可乐呢？
I love this game
拍得很工整的体育励志题材，符合类型片的所有元素和套路，起于寒微，识于伯乐、身负过往、决于一战的套路齐备，但真正的主角仍然是亚当·桑德勒饰演的球探，在寻找新人的路上，寄托了他的辛酸往事与理想抱负，当然，其实也是桑德勒自己对于篮球运动浓浓的爱，光是看各路NBA名人客串的阵容就知道他的人脉与热忱，大量彩蛋会让篮球迷津津乐道，属于私货提纯，粉丝订制的项目了。
俗不可耐的热血故事，但竞技体育的魅力还是让人血脉贲张；能看到众多的球星名宿确实也值得让篮球迷们心甘情愿地付出这两个钟头；多讲讲球探这种幕后故事挺好的，多少球员在许多年后被网友扒出基本和当年的球探报告一模一样，也算是三岁看老了
影片既真實再現了聯盟各種角色與人物的生存現狀，也直觀展示了球員的各種陋習，骯臟的小動作、對新人的霸淩、噴各種垃圾話，當作花絮來看依舊妙趣橫生又無比真實。它用一些小小的切入點，讓我們知道優秀的體育聯盟是如何運作的，有多少人在為之工作，而電影還只能非常簡略地表達，斯坦利是聯盟千千萬萬基層工作人員的縮影。印象最深的就是貫穿全片的那句「you against you」，我們永遠都是在和自己比，比自己更強才是真正的強大。
亦父亦友的球探与球员，相互帮助走向教练与球星之路。剧情普通，但看得很舒服。天赋没有努力便仅仅是天赋，而不是成功
标准模板体育励志片，角度再深一点，或者纯粹点就好了
好久没有看到这么激动人心的体育励志片了。故事很老套，但是导演和编剧却很老道。所以整体工整但是没有很算计的感觉。亚当桑德勒演的是真好。
没有办法跟《摔跤吧，爸爸》相比，不知道跟《八角笼中》比会怎么样？
作為一部勵誌體育電影，從劇情上來說還是個老套的勵誌、伯樂、互相救贖的故事，但一個套路做好了也能有不錯的效果。雖然劇情基本上沒有創新，但能感受到真實的對籃球這項運動的愛，當感情真摯的時候，其它的瑕疵就顯得不是那麽重要了。
好久没有看到这么激动人心的体育励志片了。故事很老套，但是导演和编剧却很老道。所以整体工整但是没有很算计的感觉。亚当桑德勒演的是真好。
热血！让我想重拾篮球。但是我好像年纪大了。先从不熬夜做起吧，然后锻炼身体。
6/10/2022 中间训练的montage光看我就有被累到
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