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".
不是一个靠激动人心的冒险故事驱动的电影，Stan幻想中的秘密登月计划只占了非常小的部分，全片都是在讲太空竞赛时期休斯顿郊区儿童丰富多彩的童年生活，喜不喜欢这部电影取决于你喜不喜欢怀旧，我看评论区有人说咱跟美国生活没共鸣，come on，大家都是从小孩子长大的，无论是跟朋友一起玩，还是周末看电视，总有一件两件事是联结我们所有人的吧？旁白娓娓道来理查德·林克莱特的美妙台词，像一部精彩的童年回忆录，我被深深迷住了
不完全和登月有关，更多的是对于那个时代的一次私人怀念吧，关于不为人知的成长。也许我们都曾有过年少轻狂的岁月，却终究被生活和社会磨平了棱角，想想是不是也挺遗憾呢。但人生的追梦，什么时候都不会太晚，追梦的过程总是无悔的，加油向前吧少年。
本片不是故事片，而是上世纪60年代美国年轻一代的日常生活资料片。身为90后中国人，在片中找不到太多共鸣点，但没有一秒不陶醉在这漂亮的转描动画里。
感觉可以二刷三刷的电影看多少遍都不会腻，虽然剧情不会变，但每次看都有不一样的感受，一开始不理解男主为什么执意要回藏区，后来才明白，这是他内心的坚持和心之所向
一直有当支教老师的想法，但一想到艰苦的环境就望而却步，也想知道去西藏支教的真实情况，带着了解的心情看了这部电影。这是一部有光的电影，不仅仅体现在孩子对知识的渴望，更表现在韩松老师对援藏支教的坚定。看完电影，整体感受是：一位好的老师，真的可以改变学生的命运，一部用心打造的电影，可以坚定自己对于梦想的努力，为世人埋下一颗真善美的种子！
#这真是一个现实的问题：“心”和“力”的一场博弈。可能心有余而力不足，可能力有余而心不足，可能心力皆不足，可能心力皆有余，可能心力刚刚好……所以那些没有坚持3年的老师，旁人又用什么立场去judge？
真的非常羡慕他们一大家子兄弟姐妹一齐坐在沙发上收看电视的情景。60年代终究只能是别人的童年记忆。看着现如今越来越赛博朋克的世界，谁还会在乎星辰大海呢。
解说真好，年代感出来了，我那个年代小学吃着太阳锅巴和着北冰洋，坐桌子上离着1米五的衣柜上的小黑白电视很近的，看着一只吸血鸭子的动画片，还有圣斗士星矢，我是希瑞（股眼泡曼泰纳），还有中午下学吃饭听杨家将的评书还能记得挖坟吃小孩屁股后臀尖，下学玩的水果刀画格子记分名叫“掇刀”，秋天杨树叶子根茎藏臭球鞋里捂着互相拔根玩看谁的结实，小摊买洋画都是什么大仙这老祖姜子牙什么的，用剪子一张一张剪了窝一下好拍，夏天爬树上有红色的虫子一点它屁股跳的特别远叫大炮。
名导采用动画渲染技术，写了一位少年登月的故事。片子通过孩子的视角记录下60年代NASA家属的日常生活，有很多文化符号，是个很好的怀念，但是咱们看来应该是无感的。我的观感认为这不是一个真实的故事，没当孩子睡着时他就登上了太空，像是梦中的幻境。结尾的字幕可能为他正了名。希望咱们国家的㊙️密也有解密的一天吧…
很浪漫很纯粹，把那个年代、那个年龄、那个国家描绘的相当真实生动
没有快进的看完了，对于现在浮躁的环境来讲，能认真看完这样一部电影，真的很难得。
感觉这样结局挺好的，人生本来就没有圆满的，唯一美中不足的地方就是男女主没有自己的孩子
致敬所有支教老师，真的没有坚强的心坚持不下去啊，何况在那个年代，幸好现在越来越好了。
场景都很真实，也很接地气，不是那种悬浮的作品，能切实的感受到属于藏区的风情习俗。
原来导演之前就有这种画风的动画电影尝试，电影拿了航天的背景做了那个年代的画像，很散但也很私人，比较无感
这部电影是真的真的真的好，以至于好到我想推荐每个认识的人都看一看！
风格蛮特别的动画 真的一眼认出Zachary Levi
一部属于特定人群的情怀电影，但也仅限于此。
开始感觉还是那个林克莱特，但到后面觉得有点无聊了。就童年回忆这方面我觉得我这一代和他们6070年代很多地方都好像，那种太空梦，科幻，阴谋论和我们在这之中只顾着自己一片小天地的感觉太像了
林克莱特总能抓住生活中最有趣的地方，或许有时候是符号化的或带有刻板印象，但正是这些东西标记出了记忆的轮廓。能感受到林克莱特对于回忆的真诚，在这动画化的休斯敦，有时候居然能勾起自己已忘却的童年回忆。这种普世童年质感，上一次体会到还是奥尔米的《木屐树》。
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