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".
剧情有点落伍有点迪士尼。如果早十年可能对里面的本色任务如数家珍，奈何基本已经退役篮坛了。
篮球也好，棒球、橄榄球也好，甚至赛车，都挺好看。督促博锻炼那段挺细致，铺垫的篇幅不少。还有就是爱德华兹的垃圾话，对博来说是必须克服的障碍。
热血励志，但主角的情绪化现实中可能不会好这么快
不管什么时候，亚当桑德勒都很适合演这种角色！其次客串的球星众多，又是掀起一幕幕回忆杀，尤其AI出来的时候！整体也更像是NBA2K系列的剧情真人版，虽然一切看似很老套路，但是细看又会发现挺真实的，现在76人的管理层确实挺蠢的，该清理清理一下，就像选哈里斯放走巴特勒一样…最后虽成功却没有在一起，但是彼此都得到了最好的想要，挺不错的
俗套至极，也就众多NBA球星客串值得一看。
没有想象中的激动人心，感觉还不如看一场比赛。
很激动的一部电影，尽管片尾的剧情全部猜中哈哈哈
《我们，动物》导演Jeremiah Zagar新作，Adam因为这部电影得以慧眼识珠，找到他最终推动整个项目的发生——从《原钻》合作Safdies，再到这里，请金酸莓永久远离Adam、未来有奖项速速为其送去肯定。基本可以和两年前Ben Affleck《回归之路》并驾齐驱的体育电影，它们都不耍花招、耐心地捕捉篮球之于人生与试着重新站起来的真义，也关于一个被低估（或被不看好的主演）却打破自己、交上认真严肃的诠释。尽管更大的成功来自于选择职业运动员参演、用种粗暴有钱的方式得以大肆糅合各种真实材料、网罗大牌客串从而实现的乐趣，但它是个足够扎实、也乐于为人展示选秀文化与背后角力更在适当的时候释放情绪的故事。唯一不太满足的或许是Queen Latifah的角色很边缘化，她也值得更好的捕捉。
情节有点老土，NBA球员大多是客串，但桑德斯的眼神确实演活了一个渴望当教练的资深球探的渴望，对于事业的追求，看到结尾隐约有《当幸福来敲门》小感动。
这是今年看的比较顺眼的电影了。
虽然没那么健康，但是又爽又快乐
属于美国体育励志类常规影片。体育是美国底层实现飞跃的机会，虽然渺渺，但一直让底层人们持有希望，我想这也是为什么这类电影一直有市场的原因。另外，不都说文体一家吗？我们文艺界拍励志电影有点难，但或许可以拍几部电影讽刺一下我们的体育界。
挺戏谑的，现实里的埃尔南戈麦斯近两年状态下滑的厉害，辗转多队，到了电影里周围人确是各种惊艳的表情。不知道为什么以数字人队做背景，看到新经理后觉得很像了，但依然不喜欢这个背景。客串真多，基本随便一个镜头都有客串，故事挺差的，没诚意，不真实，也看不到纯粹的热爱，没有意义，最精彩的竟是结尾的混剪。想不到爱德华兹演了个嘴炮
剧情不出意料，在客服了一些所谓的“困难”之后，两人终于实现了各自的梦想，在球场工作了30年，终于有朝一日当上了助教，还是跟老板关系很好分前提下，多少有点扯了。在选拔方面是不是有点过于儿戏了，本来挺期待的考试，结果挺一般的，像是在看2k分剧情，只是单挑就会被认为是打球好么，认真准备了一整集，最后有点拉。很多球星的出现倒是挺有意思的。！7.2分。
很美好的又很套路的励志故事，爱德华兹演坏人可以啊
傻呀！就应该重现霍华德机场追回Raj，当场表白，跟开头跟踪人家那段呼应啊！
对NBA这个联盟了解了一些，喜欢篮球的应该很喜欢这部电影
球届春晚片，虽然剧情我从开始就能预判到结局但看的过程还是很爽的，我个完全不看体育的人看滴也很开心，开心就是好！（本弗好娇小哦哦哦哦哦哦噢哦哦哦哦呃呃呃哦哦哦我的老婆
不走运的球探
3.5-确实套路，但不难看。喜欢亚当·桑德勒。
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