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".
采访不同的小朋友对未来父母死亡的看法，兄妹在照顾病重的母亲时产生的冲突，叔侄陌生到熟悉的相处，在我看来这三方面的展示应该为兄妹俩之间的感情羁绊提供支撑，会更吸引人。
没看懂啊，一大堆人物，一大堆剧情线，我看的是解说，不知道是解说的问题还是剧情本身的问题，感觉剧情线很乱
文本和听觉结合，表达人物喜欢陷于自己的世界，而孤独的大人与另一个独孤的小孩相处，表现了游离在大人世界之外的孩子们对于爱和理解的渴求。孩子思考自己的人生命题，这个角度真好，但除了两位的表演，实在看不进去
母亲要照顾患有精神疾病的父亲，便把儿子托付给了舅舅。于是舅舅和外甥两人开始了一段公路喜剧，他们也在相处中得到了慰藉和成长。
已经是近几年来最有趣的一部了，只是小兰戏份依旧可以但是不必要…别的就是安室透实在是装x成性，看得我在电影院会笑出声的程度。。。
看着很舒服的一部电影，完全没有感觉到无聊。
迈克.米尔斯太温柔了！多么动人的城市纪录。
本来以为我会很喜欢的，但是剧情设置有点刻意。本应该是故事塑造角色，这部是角色为故事存在，故事又很弱。要不是主角的个人魅力，我都不一定看得完
剧情很简单，就是一个帮助有点陌生的姐姐带孩子的故事。但是导演的手法真的很丰富，通过声音设计、剪辑、essay的适时插入、小男孩的精彩人物设置和台词等等，让这个片子立体精彩了起来。虽然后程有点乏力，但是整体来说片子还是可看性很强、很温馨和具有启发性的。华金和小男孩对手戏实在是精彩，互相成全，小男孩可以冲一下男配的奥提。PS，带娃真的太辛苦了。@NYFF59
883｜3.5，采访美国一堆小孩，却还是带不了自己侄子；看似开放实则封闭的内心，通过体验自己妹妹的生活才彻底打开。其实挺老套，宏大议题的讨论和故事本身基本脱节，但透露出的温情非常打动人。黑白摄影+声画分离的剪辑+舒缓的配乐都是加分项。
这两都很帅，小崽子眼睛好大，男主是真的有魅力。
假装深刻 假装有趣 假装灵气 其实可看性不强 适合网红咖啡厅24循环圈播放 做打卡拍照的背景
最重要的是，滑板依然可以飞天遁地
我们可以在每个孩子身上看见一个被设定好的关键词：早熟。而且程度一定是恰到好处的，是对世界有所思虑却又说不清楚什么东西，是让这部电影的受众——成年人们看到后有所思虑又不至于心生警惕和反感的。
有趣，承载了我：1. 跟着纪录片导演巡游；2. 巡游美国的各个城市，跟能欣赏的人一起 的梦想。
随着这个孩子，一起前进一起思考，是多么温馨有趣的事。
然后你会长大 会变得坚强 会爱上这个美丽又怪异的世界
某些人素质太差了吧，好多人都没看呢！就剧透！毛病啊…
又一部属于导演essay film式的片子，影像虽然是黑白的，却不压抑，反而释放出五颜六色的情感色彩。中文名为什么是“呼朋引伴”，可能是呼应了英文名和电影的台词“come on come on…”希望世界逐渐好起来，每个孤独、不被理解的灵魂能够遇见彼此，呼朋引伴…
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