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".
7/10.
我是土狗，我就是爱看，虽然类似的励志故事我已经看过N多次，但是依旧会热泪盈眶
4.5星，学校演出全场寂静的一段真是动人。
影片中最讓我動容的場景是最後女主參加伯克利入學面試的時候一邊唱歌一邊打著手語，她讓聽不見聲音的家人們也感受到了這首歌。有時候我們正常人真的很難去體會那些身體有缺陷的人的痛苦，想到之前看到的一句話，你以為的失明是閉上雙眼，可真正的失明是當你閉上一邊眼睛時所感受到的無助才是視障人士眼中的世界。所以當在禮堂里所有觀眾欣賞著二重唱而鏡頭換到父親視角的時候，我們才能體會到那種靜謐到極致的孤獨。可上天有時就是不公平的，所以這些苦楚都要自己吞下。電影的質量其實還是挺不錯的，但是拿小金人還是會缺少信服力。
过于工整了。突然无声那段好评，但总觉得视角混乱。
唯一的惊喜可能是看贝利叶一家的时候觉得这个故事只能发生在法国。改编的还行，比原版更激进的用“听障”高概念提取“家庭伦理与社会规则的冲突”，但是只要先入为主还是觉得太美式了，没有原版那么简单可爱
片中女主这一点让我很佩服，就是在面对“爱的绑架”时，能坚定地为自己的梦想抗争，不认为自己的人生只是家人的附属“因为家里需要翻译，要为家庭着想”。
看过一模一样的一部电影，但结尾还是一直在哭。
直接空降年度外语十佳！套路、狗血、翻拍、设计好的……都可以成为这部电影的标签，但爱、感动、治愈、欢笑、泪水占据了更大的部分。校园合唱的聋哑人视角、对父亲在星空下唱歌，面试时打手语，最后父亲说的“go”，因为特殊原因加深了家庭的纽带，却也被拖住，好多泪点，真的想哭。这样的“鸡汤”大家可能早就喝腻了，但到现在我还是受用，可能永远都会受用，青春期的感情，自我认知的迷茫，家庭的关系，梦想的追求……好多的细节仿佛都在看我自己的故事，或许也是这样我才能如此深受触动。好多关于手语的笑点，设计极其巧妙；歌也好听，是因为歌唱者注入了情感，有了情感，便有了温暖。
B— / 哭了，虽然是套路化的剧作，但保留了真诚又质朴的情感表达，与Glee式鸡汤的碰撞向来无法抗拒，除此之外叙事节奏其实很典型圣丹斯电影，静谧中时而流露出喜剧感。哥哥真的好帅。
这片不是励志片，如果按励志片来看会觉得成功之路不够苦痛，不够漫长，尽管后来女主也考上了伯克利。这片的重点不是放在女主如何努力，披荆斩棘， 终成正果，它聚焦的是家庭与个人，梦想与现实，有得必有舍，有舍不一定得，秋水长天可共一色，自古忠孝却难两全。
有些细节处理的不错 ，但是还是法版好看。好莱坞的原创力也越累越乏善可陈了。
为健听女孩家庭的双方发声值得称赞，Ruby对于做家人的发声筒已经精疲力尽，哥哥则不愿一直被当做弱者对待。但除此之外，剧情真的有点乏善可陈，几乎都是可以预想得见的套路：与crush因误会而疏远，难以平衡梦想与家庭，最后往往家庭做出“牺牲”成全主人公梦想，部分剧情转折也过于刻意，比如音乐老师对于“准时”的过分执着，面试当天没带曲谱全凭老师救场等等。结局其实也很理想化，一个没有多少音乐资历的女孩成功进入专业殿堂，家人的捕鱼生意顺利开展，先前预想的沟通困难、没有销路似乎都在转瞬间迎刃而解。拿最佳影片感觉有点“水”？但最佳男配实质名归，眼神之中讯息万千，配合手语演绎“戴好安全帽”的提示着实无敌，用双手感知女儿歌声也令人感动。
看电影的时候想起来我的一个幼儿园同学爸妈都是聋哑人，我看着她用手语和爸妈交流，给爸妈当翻译，她只有5岁。不知道这个女孩子现在怎么样了。
市长竞选变成了经典缴税
看到开头夫妇看病环节，长时间不能造爱，情节重现，贝利叶一家。
最喜欢的是面试时唱着唱着就打起了手语，已经无所谓结果，只想把这首歌唱给家人听。结局挺理想化，歌不错。
也就还行吧-_-||父母哥哥在她出生之前都是废物么？无法生活的那种？必须得有翻译才行的？各种问好？哥哥很奇怪…妈妈很奇怪…爸爸在还没上大学的女儿面前真不把她当宝宝……
在伯乐Mr.V的点播下一“鸣”惊人、因歌情开遇见Sing Street boy、爱的歌声跨越感官鸿沟，隔阂变通途。
直接空降年度外语十佳！套路、狗血、翻拍、设计好的……都可以成为这部电影的标签，但爱、感动、治愈、欢笑、泪水占据了更大的部分。校园合唱的聋哑人视角、对父亲在星空下唱歌，面试时打手语，最后父亲说的“go”，因为特殊原因加深了家庭的纽带，却也被拖住，好多泪点，真的想哭。这样的“鸡汤”大家可能早就喝腻了，但到现在我还是受用，可能永远都会受用，青春期的感情，自我认知的迷茫，家庭的关系，梦想的追求……好多的细节仿佛都在看我自己的故事，或许也是这样我才能如此深受触动。好多关于手语的笑点，设计极其巧妙；歌也好听，是因为歌唱者注入了情感，有了情感，便有了温暖。
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