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".
教育是个永恒的话题，尤其是当下的国人，环境塑造人，所谓的种族问题只是环境问题，我觉得电影虽励志，但他不可复制！我们只能当一个故事来听，或许可以从中吸取一些东西，每个人的人生不同，性格不同，尊重生命的多样性！这也是一种可能！
中规中矩的八序列法剧本，威尔史密斯影帝锁了吧，导演的功底很一般。
美国版《摔跤吧爸爸》，就算你没不爱打网球，也一定听过大威廉姆斯和小威廉姆斯的故事。
平庸老套，充斥着陈词滥调的学院派传记片，不过史皇的表演值得一座今年的奥斯卡影帝🏆
“如果现在你不尊重自己的付出的话，那你将永远不能获得尊重，永远也不能！”
文不对题，标题是King Richard但电影看下来似乎是一个父亲带领女儿们成为运动明星的成长故事，而且父亲的角色塑造也很难共情。奥系流水传记片能不能通通去死。。。难看。。。
P.S. 这部片真适合和纪录片《未来》连看。
这电影真得超级讽刺，好看的部分和理查德没有一毛钱关系，根本不配叫国王！！！！！恶心的父权制
仍是每年颁奖季都有的人物传记片，完全以主角为中心，表演尚可，质量平平。
整体可看性还是可以的！尤其是在体育经济学上的淡彩几笔，不深，却又人人惊叹！
自負又自卑的父親，自負於女兒網球天賦，又自卑於自身身份，固執的父親最後還是遂了女兒的意。
整体可看性还是可以的！尤其是在体育经济学上的淡彩几笔，不深，却又人人惊叹！
确实有点老套，但自己还是对这种运动题材有天生好感。结尾的反高潮值得学习。
取得成功的关键在于两个女孩的梦想和决心，在于她们强大的意志，而不是这种集权教育。
为什么他爹这么有精力，没日没夜训练孩子，还能搞这么多外遇。。。有精力这个事儿是遗传的吗
有这样“偏执”的老爸对于大小威来说是个好事，特别是在那个网球属于贵族运动的时代（现在还是不是就不知道了），没有老爸的执着坚持，根本不可能有机会。
很精彩，看完捋出一丝遗憾。前面表达的是阶层跨越，最后在理查德向女儿道出自己的童年创伤所表达的是种族歧视。想说理查德的教育方式好还是不好呢？理查德转变太快了，紧接着跟后面女儿的比赛也没有形成很好的呼应和互动。很泄气。这是关于父亲的传记，不是两女儿的传记，最后的比赛的视角怎么就完全给了女儿？ 传记电影不好写，据说剧本阶段就被外在因素干预太多，以至于不得不成了现在这个样子。3星+1星，多的1星给国王为维护妻子扇出的一耳光。 7.4/1.76万 短评6587条 %53/38/9。【7.5/8.1万 预算5000万美元，北美票房1512.92万美元，全球票房3842.92万美元】
当一个混蛋成功了，他混蛋的部分，也就自然成为他成功的原因了？这种成功学贯穿始终，接受不能。以及对网球这项运动，体现得也太稀薄了。基本不看女网，原来大小威出道是和辛吉斯库娃一个时代的？瑞思拜！为了听波迷和狐狸涛聊播客才看的。然鹅还没更新。
爹气冲天。我要是碰上这么个控制狂的虎爹，恐怕早就离家出走几百回了。不过也得承认，这个人物身上的复杂性，使他天生是“电影主角”，把戏份放在他身上从剧作角度来讲是合理的。颁奖礼上那一巴掌，大约是威尔.史密斯入戏太深，人戏不分之举。
与当幸福来敲门这种成功学电影本质上没有任何区别，都是通过不断的鸡血来励志，只不过十几年前威尔史密斯是鸡自己，现在变成了鸡娃家长。而且明明这姐妹花都很成功，但小威的视角还是小了点，从这一角度还是欠缺了点说服力，但这毕竟不是鸡娃的传记而是家长的传记，只能说是没有跑题，但从剧情的冲击力度上看似乎也没有很强。
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