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".
典型的“电脑副屏电影”，在那个氛围里就可以的，都是普通人的日常生活，让它陪着我打游戏也是很香的存在。
抛一段引子线性平述，然后再抛一个引子继续线性平述，转折非常生硬，逻辑非常别扭，看完都不知道所以然，不过洗白黑警这点我是搞明白了，正经警察都是无能死板的，只有黑化以暴制暴的黑警路线才能干出实绩，只要能捉“中”老鼠的黑警就是“好”警察，大老鼠捉不到无所谓，最终的社会收益是正的就是正确，有点像当年刚战败后的日本，黑社会组织能够促进社会安定而肯定他们的合法存在，这种模式或许也是适合当下的韩国社会
有叔叔及其朋友们的温柔酒吧。
The Tender Bar script is based on the best-selling 2005 memoir of the same name by J. R. Moehringer, which tells the true story of Moehringer's childhood growing up in Long Island, New York in the 1970s and '80s.
乔治克鲁尼演戏是很可以的，但非要去当导演和制片。大家也是对的。
咋突然就開始穿西裝上班了呢？整個就一小崔西裝秀啊！
各种情怀的拼凑，还是比较温情的家庭故事，克鲁尼真不适合导演
中规中矩、四平八稳的自传体回忆录，最大的亮点是本阿弗莱克的表演，这在其演绎生涯中也是很鲜有的 ★★☆
感受到了对lawyer的stereotyping😂
平淡且冗长的流水账式叙事节奏 太乏味了整体非常一般 毫无新意 多一星给配乐
大叔和帅哥男主的演技都还不错的，只是这个故事情节有点单薄啊……觉得算是个小亮点的情节竟然是那个人11点很帅的把钱还回来。
大本演绎的这个舅舅大概大家都会想拥有吧。
冲着赵震雄来看的，实在太差。整个故事都太假，稚嫩的崔宇植也完全撑不起角色，实在忍不了快进看完
简单又温暖人心的故事。努力学习与一点点运气就是普通人的出路。
赵震雄又胖回来了，这部完成度比较高，剧情也比较商业化，看的途中都忍不住站队赵和崔，动作戏也还可以，最后的剧情落入俗套，可能还是演员演的比较出色吧！挺吸引人的，可以说无尿点，但是不值得二刷
男主看似父爱的缺失，但其实他得到了最好的“父爱”！如果真的跟着亲生父亲生活，可能人生就是另一个结局了！父母对一个孩子的影响太重要了，母亲搬回娘家居住看似无奈，实则是最好的选择！！！
为了破案而处于灰色地带的警察，受财团资助的警察地下组织。不过背后还有《越狱》式的组织。。。对于资助人的犯罪网开一面，这就是H国的惯例吧
为了小崔而看的，可是好无聊的剧情啊，叙事也很乱。
这部电影可能更多的意义是提供了回忆录视角：如果当下已经足够难堪，何不回头遥看来时的人们如何珍视。大本最后一幕戏就像他在《心灵捕手》里一样动人。“不要回来”。
影片虽然平淡，但各个角色都演的很真实。最重要的是，隐隐中看到自己的童年，虽然并不算富裕，但家人给予的温暖却永远伴随。
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