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".
本来是要打发时间随便看看的 被这个信念坚定到近乎偏执的父亲角色带进去了
黑命雕，黑命贵，黑命做啥都是对！一个自负的狼爸，撑起女儿的一生？片中连妻子都说了，你只是畏惧自己而已，结果一句话老爹就一百八十度大转变，角色彻底洗白。第二幕让女儿们谦卑，第一幕自己却极为自大，当然也可以这么拍，只要把对黑人混混那段拍明白就好（自我救赎），结果拍成了啥？一个没有开枪就获得胜利的人。（这也是片中理查给我的最深印象，导演还不如最开始就拍大小威廉或者母亲呢）
小李评分：6.6
洪常秀三板斧：生活巧妙变虚构；创作观念大讲堂；公然炫耀金敏喜。一再把自己和盘托出，虚构也许永不枯竭，但内里那个洪常秀已经差不多要被穷尽了。
一个概览的感觉，没什么内容，觉得以前也看过不少不能说一模一样但相差无几的片子。不如看姐妹们比赛？
好久好久没看这种传记类的片了 还是因为准备考试补到相关资料了才终于决定看一看的 这么一看 演员本人和剧中角色确实挺像的 还是希望理查德本人会没有威尔史密斯那么“大男子主义” （再一次不自觉地忽略点了其他人 哎）
电影工业代表性的产品，故事张弛有度，人物平衡情绪丰满，观众被带着从头走到尾，该哭的时候哭，该笑的时候笑
真是服了
感動得一蹋糊塗！讓我醬完全不懂網球的人都迷上大小威廉了！！理查是偉大的，偉大在他是真的啥都知道。他一家子牛逼烘烘的像是自大得無比自信，他卻自己明白謙虛的重要；彷彿一切真在他掌握中，他的計畫書是神的計畫書。無論再有天賦我們還是要努力呀諸君！！
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
人物写得好，选择这个父亲为切入点很讨巧，但不得不承认是正确的。
精工鸡汤片，但已经鸡娃了几十年的我们不大可能跟着high了吧
从题材和故事上来说，看过《摔跤吧！爸爸》之后，对本片就没什么感觉了
该如何看待影片与现实的互文呢？如果观众相信“我爱你”是在撒狗粮，“浪费生命”是在反讽并鲜明地表达自我态度，“故事不需要引人入胜的情节”是创作观，那么，“我写不出来了，大概是江郎才尽吧”就也应该被视为夫子自道。在我看来，这个说法和他近年的持续高产也并不矛盾，更进一步说，因为独此一份，所以他拍得好或不好，也已经没有那么重要了。
我还蛮喜欢的励志燃情，《打网球吧，爸爸！》史皇很稳定。稳定也是一种退步吧？
6项奥斯卡提名，无比契合当今的奥斯卡口味，各种拿奖buff叠满了，不给史皇个影帝都说不过去，况且对比卷福和加菲，我更喜欢史皇这次的发挥，他这次的表演也更合奥斯卡的口味，赌一把影史第四位奥斯卡黑人影帝！曾经有过打网球的经历，所以比赛段落情绪都很带动，除此之外就是稳扎稳打的美式政治正确，很难说它不好看，每个点转折点都准准踩到了经典套路上，但就是说，很难能带来惊喜，不过看之前也大概预知了质量如何，也算是大差不差。
是一部看完后会鼻子很难受的电影，上一部是波西米亚狂想曲。
大威7个大满贯冠军，小威23个大满贯冠军，女子网球届的迈克尔·乔丹！
天才少年/女出道不容易，很少人做到整个职业生涯那么牛逼，尤其是网球
优点：压迫感经由威尔史密斯的表演自然带出贯穿全片，真的倍儿害怕😱缺点：片尾曲的真实影像足够了，结尾的字幕显得为了政治正确说了一大堆务虚的意义，对不住这么扎实的故事原型。每个领域都有鸡娃之父，拍出来都会带滤镜，人嘴两张皮，如果要以这样极端的案例为榜样，也请选择适合自己家庭的程度。男主&女配均有一定竞争力。
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