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".
你见过凌晨四点的费城吗？管理层一定是在影射湖人
情节有点老土，NBA球员大多是客串，但桑德斯的眼神确实演活了一个渴望当教练的资深球探的渴望，对于事业的追求，看到结尾隐约有《当幸福来敲门》小感动。
你们是瞎吗？这么帅竟然说人家像ET？真是平平无奇古天乐啊。
除了球探是个真演员其他简直全NBA阵容，连cruz都是埃尔南戈麦斯扮演的，挖掘国际球员的励志故事+隐晦的胜似父子等家庭感情线+最终双双实现职业篮球梦想，虽然免不了体育类电影的大套路，但是剧情真的燃、结尾片花奉献一众NBA现大碗、前名宿集锦也是真的的泪目！
流畅 圆梦吧对主演来说 美国的街头篮球文化太根深蒂固了
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？
惊叹美国的商业模式臻于完美，这个片子就能可见一斑。这根本算不上部电影，而是NBA这门生意的一部分。这28×15的方寸之地，既是纯洁的梦想，又是肮脏的斗争。
American Dream 对年轻人和中年人同样有吸引力，不过大个球员能防守能三分，还能跑能跳，模板是谁？球星们的纷纷亮相很惊喜，华子在里面演技真好。
运动电影很难拍，要不就是好，要不就是不好，这一部当然是毋庸置疑的好。
中规中矩体育片，爱篮球的值得一看。伯乐与千里马的相遇拍得一般，分别倒是拍出感觉了，机场球员看着教练不见身影那段，使电影提升不少。但转折太快，就和全片一样，有很多剧作技巧上的安排，就是处理得较粗糙。
对于一个篮球迷来说，看到这部电影就像梦想成真。更何况它不是一般的励志片——伯乐发掘良马恐怕更多的是出于利益考量，而我们直到临近结尾还不能确认良马能不能取得成功。在我看来它道出了某种真相：我们以为的很多可能性其实都有条件限制，而我们在对阶级碾压愤怒不已的时候，会发现难以撼动分毫。
俗不可耐。网飞流水线，这种励志传记片一年盛产五百部。其实唯一的看点是NBA群星客串，这个够强大了，要不然我想给两颗星的。
中规中矩的励志片，致敬了洛奇，但相比洛奇的节奏还是嫩了许多
『 6.0 华子风评被害，76人自黑？最后去凯人了，不错，暗示凯尔特人总冠军！』
天才不一定成功，驾驭千里马的不一定是伯乐。起起伏伏才是人生。燃。
电影里唯二没扮演自己的就是主角和爱德华兹，华子那张脸真挺欠打啊哈哈哈
轮换角色打爆状元🤣 咋说呢，我觉得这个适合2k生涯剧情
挺好，看着不腻歪，街球和训练的部分很好看。
虽然挺俗套的，但也挺受用的。毕竟这年头，需要看励志片吸取一点纯粹的正能量了。
老套的故事，但是因为有大量NBA现役球员以及街球手的加入，看着还是很热闹。顺便一提的是，演Bo的埃尔南戈麦斯刚刚被裁掉了。。。
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