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".
躲的了初一，躲不过十五，躲的了去年院线，躲不过今年六公主
6，结尾的情感冲击力都被前面尴尬且无聊的小品式笑点给稀释了，这种延续自夏洛特烦恼以来的小品式喜剧对整个国产喜剧的创作影响是巨大的，而且逆转大招细想其实逻辑漏洞是挺明显的，假如要用贾玲的梦做解释来敷衍过去，就有点无力，就跟本格用人格分裂作梗，不高级。电影对80年代的还原还是下了点功夫，单双号那个设计算是全片喜剧笑点设计我个人感觉最棒的，倒是贾玲他爸的形象一直的缺位让我觉得有点太刻意了。情感是蛮真诚质朴的，但情感不能弥补电影技巧的平庸和无聊。
“从我出生起，妈妈就是中年妇女的样子，以至于我会忘记妈妈也曾是少女”，“你以为你很爱妈妈了，其实妈妈比想象中的还要爱你”。电影并没有网上评论的那么好，但是越长大越能体会到母亲对于孩子的爱。情感真挚足矣。
多一星鼓励&支持女性创作者！很温情的一部片子，最后点破英子带着妈妈记忆的时候，瞥到玲儿从天而降喊着“宝儿啊”冲过去试图接住的画面特别touch~
看得出融入了真情 可惜还欠缺很多啊
还行吧，同样题材感觉没有重返二十岁，乘风破浪拍的好，想看也是因为有沈腾
基本还是小品式喜剧，爱母之心感天动地，后面太不懂节制了，哭起来吓人啊～玲儿
影片看着看着以为是上天给女儿一次机会，弥补逝去的时光，让那个时空的母亲高兴一回，结果最后居然反转，原来一直是母亲在注视着女儿......当时鸡皮疙瘩全起来了，非常震撼。另外，母女和解的内核，总能让人轻易流泪。
结尾反转的时候，发现好的演技 好的剧本 真的可以骗到观众，明明有那么多蛛丝马迹，但是 英子 带着光芒的女性 把观众统统吸引了。 我妈妈也很喜欢，她觉得不做作，不为了让人笑而笑 哭而哭。
两个小时的电影，90%的时间在狂笑，几分钟一个包袱，后面的突然转折，意料之外又是情理之中，让人潸然泪下。很好的一部电影，推荐大家去看。
7.7分，看完后问一同观影的妈妈这个电影和《送你一朵小红花》哪个好？她说各有千秋。其实这是有道理的，就以这部电影前半段而言，真的很缺乏电影感，难怪让那么多影评人诟病。但比起《送你一朵小红花》那模棱两可的结局而言，无疑是《你好，李焕英》的反转胜了。有一个好反转的电影，在豆瓣上评分往往不会太低。
当一部喜剧在拥有合理的剧情的同时，还能在每一个细微的笑点上都能令人发笑，这部喜剧无疑是成功的。而当一部合格的喜剧+好的创意构思+合理的煽情与深入+春节档，那么这部影片堪称完美。它做到了。
本想四星，结局又搬回一星，英雄不问出处。20210301二刷学习
本来没觉得够8分，7分合适，但看看唐探3，还是给8分吧，全靠同行衬托。
不好笑，也不感人。内容空洞、故事无聊、笑料粗俗，也因此，所谓内涵的真挚深厚的情感云云，即便在创作初衷上真的有过，在成片情节上也无所依托、无从呈现，一味靠配乐渲染和干嚎抹泪强行煽情，让我倍感肉麻不适，哭笑不得且压力山大。贾玲如果你真的是想拍部电影来表达对妈妈的感情，那就拜托给大家来点真东西，而不是这类小品流水线编写的烂俗段子笑料拼凑而成的东西，这东西，承载不起也表达不出任何真挚深厚的情感，OK？
笑着笑着就哭了。也许作为导演处女作技法上有些不完美，至少感情上足够真挚动人，引人共鸣。妈妈，我不仅仅想活得健康快乐，也想要成为你的骄傲。
3.5星，前半部分剧情零碎拖沓，让我很难带入，3 星基础分，0.5分打给后半部分妈妈跟小玲一起穿越回去的设计。
4.5。雪中独行的背影我哭崩了。我的确也有想过，“如果没有我，他们会不会开心点”、“我是不是一个值得被夸耀的孩子”……
中国式情感绑架的畸形关系，在不断的互相亏欠里自我感动，的确真诚但不该仅仅是这样。
奉令，不给低分。我就说一句：看贾玲肉乎乎地又哭又笑地狂奔，觉得她是年轻的。
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