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".
剧情和励志肯定是棒棒哒。难道就没有人发现，海报上吴君如特别像 任素汐么？
中规中矩 想讲很多问题 又好像什么都没讲。
前半段追逐梦想，后半段进入现实。打动我的，是揭露残障运动员在社会上的不公平对待。妈妈的戏份盖过了主角，片尾过于煽情
一个人的成功标准，在我看来，在于他是否突破了先天条件（家境，体质，智力，性格……）的局限性，并往前了一步。
二十多年苏妈的脸没啥变化，张继聪的老年妆又很到位，所以这是啥设定。少年和青年两位演员真的很棒，新生代了不起，希望以后继续看到。还有老baby钱小豪又是出现在花絮时间长过正片……这次很遗憾影院没有排原声场次，哭泣。
演苏的几位演员都很棒 嘲笑大陆的同类型影片
最近自己不小心弄到脚指骨骨折了要上石膏一个月，已经觉得超级无敌麻烦而且也会发脾气生闷气！因为很多事情要麻烦别人想自己来吧事情反而更糟糕！所以这个时候看到这个电影更加明白伤残人士的痛苦😭而且苏妈是真的全奉献给儿子！演员们的演技都非常好
两星给真人真事。电影拍的太俗，即俗套又俗气，所谓根据真人真事改编，实际拍的很空，无聊又无趣，不如直接看百度，电影或许用三倍速值得一看
它想展示的不只是残障人士颠覆命运的励志之路，也不只是人类不断突破身体障碍的高光姿势。更重要的是赛道之外，在一个残疾人生活保障机制尚未健全的社会中，一个残障家庭的孤注一掷和现实困境，以及一位母亲的坚韧与脆弱、骄傲和卑微、笃定与迷茫。几位演员演技拉满，让我一度以为真的是残障人士本色出演。吴君如也贡献了《岁月神偷》之后最饱满的母亲形象。
故事基于真实的人物事件，拍得朴实自然。情感真挚而不过度卖惨，母子互相依偎也会有理念冲突，后面母子二人看台上爆发的片段很容易让观众产生共鸣，因为现实中也会真实地遇到这种很难用对错来评判、解决的矛盾。影片没有反派角色，却点中了很多残疾人士的痛点，比如适应社会生活、同工同酬、金钱和荣誉的平衡。几位主演的功力深厚，润物细无声。
除了没有披中国国旗这个瑕疵，其他都让人感动
拍的非常碎片，人物单薄而节奏缓慢，情绪的积累和爆发也做的不好
国语配音对表演效果影响挺大的，不知有无原声版。择开配音的话君如姐和少年、青年男主的表演都可圈可点。少年青年演员的切换，从长相到表演堪称无缝衔接，至片尾我都还在疑惑到底有没有换演员。
故事是好故事 但刻意煽情的音乐 生硬的剪辑 真的不好看
成功者有相似的努力也各有各的苦衷，但在我们唏嘘冠军唏嘘胜利的时候，二弟最终还是成为了家庭的“牺牲者”，所谓父母对孩子往往也有太多的个人“偏好”，虽然着墨不多但至少给出了探讨。同时又蜻蜓点水的探讨了媒体传播对人的异化——人有时就是需要作出取舍。
近2个小时的时间都不能把一个故事说好。是体育题材但真的没有让我感受到热血，是母子亲情但又无法让人共情（至少我真的没被触动到）
在电影情节设计上采取先抑后扬。讲述不顺遂的童年，遭受各种眼光和生活的困顿。在机缘巧合下找到了跑步是人生逆袭之光。
生了弟弟是为照顾哥哥，生活拮据是为了让哥哥能一直跑步，生活的一切重心都为了哥哥。
生了弟弟是为照顾哥哥，生活拮据是为了让哥哥能一直跑步，生活的一切重心都为了哥哥。
有点太像催泪抒情mv了，故事是感人的，但全程让人觉得“啊…呃…好吧…”日常的镜头会突然冒出一个强光源，就很样板戏很出戏。
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