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".
三星全给张婧仪
她是女儿的母亲/奶奶的母亲/丈夫的母亲/弟弟的母亲，可偏偏没能成为自己身体的母亲。
没看之前么有什么期待，一如既往的点开视频 看了以后第一遍？？？这是什么？
如果不得病的话，多少中国女人就这么操劳一生
故事好真实，真实到我怀疑每天都会发生。担忧子女的恋爱，照顾失智的老人，扶不起的弟弟。在爸爸知道妻子有肿瘤的那一刻，我突然崩不住了，因为悲剧的结局已经注定。
徐帆演技还不错，虽然跟女儿说话语气很怪，过于宠溺，但现实生活中有些妈妈确实对子女态度口气和别人都不同。其他配角都不错的，挑不出大毛病，剧情虽然有套路，也没有特别煽情。全片最亮点是徐帆演播室现场痛斥垃圾导演和明星。重点是带了妈妈去看，妈妈很喜欢，这就足够了。
很多年前看过韩版，忘的差不多，翻拍还算合格，很考演员，就是看的太心累，子女与父母辈处理世界的方式万变不离其宗，大抵如此，总是这般……
看完到张婧仪北漂那条线，内心由衷感叹：别学电视编导，别搞电视综艺😅把无知盲目当理想，最后到了现实却发现不是这样。
What is youth? A dream. What is love? The content of the dream.
3.5，传统的“我管着你”“我都是为你好”，在绝症的包裹下，变得愈加悲天悯人。创作者也可能意识到了这点，在结尾补充了一段，希望女儿可以选择自己的人生，把价值观拉回来一些。原著居然是韩国小说，还有韩影韩剧，东亚的传统价值体系，是多么统一……
剧本底子弱，把各种偶然狗血桥段拼凑在一起，煽情煽不到共鸣点最为致命。企图用演员们的表演来拯救，结果填补了东窗戳破了西窗。徐帆用力过猛，妈妈形象浮于表面，偶尔有触动，却难以深入。张婧怡毫无亮点，显然没有《我要我们在一起》那样惊艳，相比之下许亚军吴彦姝就恰到好处。如果吴君如《妈妈的神奇小子》演出了百分之60%人的妈妈，那么徐帆这种既当妈又当姐，替子女包办婚姻，操心一切不该操心的事，选择一切可以不选择的决定，仍然无悔的。要么就是99%人的妈妈，要么就是1%的极品母亲。
真的不希望一个假妈妈再靠着演妈妈来贩卖母爱贩卖亲情了，这位假妈妈演技的油腻程度真的只有钢炮懂了，油腻啊油腻，残害中秋
《关于剧情矫情人设脑子有坑剧情还硬煽情的那些事》
2022/02/02大年初二在外婆家看的。外婆家是一大家子姑娘，姨妈，表妹，我妈和我。外公很小就去世了。姨妈离婚。
电影结局最精彩的是女主对女二说"我们再睡一次"，说明女主和女二是双向奔赴
莫名其妙。不管是百合还是bg都硬蹭，大热天的看得我实在窝火😅
足够真实，所以动人，徐帆的角色真的就是大多数同时代女性的样子，但孩子却是比较不让人省心的那种。在感动的同时，这部电影真的要给中年人提个醒，忙于家庭工作的同时，一定要定期体检，好好爱自己！
又一部翻拍片，本片翻拍自韩国电影《世界上最美的离别》，目前仍然没有打破我对中国最好的翻拍片是《误杀》的观点。
女导演很会拍
哭了，但又没完全哭。被嫌弃的他妈的倒霉一生。
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