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".
挺好，看着不腻歪，街球和训练的部分很好看。
没说的那么好吧。除了训教那部分有些意思，完全是麦凯公式的标准套路。主要我也不是76人或者凯尔特人球迷，就很无感。说什么NBA75周年献礼片？NBA春晚？NBA全明星再垃圾都比这好看100倍，春晚必须是全明星好吧
传统的美式体育片，但是有这么多现役球员的出警确实让电影有了不一样的体验感，人到中年的亚当桑德勒褪真是太适合这种角色了，在NBA之外的世界里，每个人也有属于自己的乔丹故事。唯一的遗憾就是作为制片人的詹姆斯竟然没出镜
突然间有个想法：以后叫Logan Lerman演个体育记者如何？
NBA球星接力出场，唯独爱德华兹风评被害。电影有明确的受众群体，来填补球场之外工作模式的认知。在NBA这个运作最成功的商业联盟里，通过球探挖掘、球队试训、体测、选秀、招募等一系列流程，最后体验的仍然是还原运动本身弱肉强食的生态定律。如同埃尔南戈麦斯一路逆袭的风光镜头之外是休赛期被裁的残酷现实。
前五分钟，通过一组交叉蒙太奇镜头，交代了影片主人公及其目标，游走于世界各地的NBA76人队球探，寻找有潜力的合格的NBA新秀球员，其过程并不顺利，候选名单的名字一次次被划掉，管理层还是选中了一个主人公并不看好的人选，他也回归正常生活当起助理教练，不用整日在外奔波。（肯定又是一个妥妥的实现美国梦的励志鸡汤片：永远不要退缩。）主人公面临的第一个阻碍就是支持他的大boss突然去世了，而且其继承人一直跟他作对。接下来管理层意识到选错了人，便给他下达了真正的任务，找到那名关键球员可以进教练组。于是又踏上了探寻之路。一次观摩了一场野球场的比赛，这次无意间的邂逅，终于找到--一个建筑工人男2。主人公私自带着男2踏上了美国国土。在一众人都不看好的情况下，两人不断克服内心与外在的障碍困境，最终获得成功
P.S. Adam Sandler 越老越香
已经可以看了。各种体育运动都是看不懂的，但是我眼神挺好的，看到了'趴体生活'中老妈的宿舍中那个天天白天睡觉的女室友。
斯坦利帮助阿博焕然新生，也重新让自己找到了希望
NBA的训练真是绝！看得最血脉喷张的不是对抗赛，而是那些狠到非人的训练花招，球星真的不愧是球星，技术体力心理素质每项都必需满分，膜拜。
每次看体育系列都意犹未尽！故事虽然俗套，但依然很励志！热爱比天分更重要！
套路到看开头能预知到每一句对白…完全没有体育电影那种慷慨激昂的感觉…
Tobias真帅！演得也不错，全片看看球员教练老板们凑活了，别的就算了
为什么片名要剧透？人家辛辛苦苦放了一个亚当桑德勒愁云满面的图。感谢陈老师解说，NBA春晚蛮好看的
看在我喜欢体育励志片的分上加一分。
演技不错，但拍的太仓促了，看看还行，没必要收藏
埃尔南戈麦斯 在NBA里打球一般，但是外形和演技确实让人眼前一亮啊~~看见一众NBA球星，也算是一种满足。爱德华兹满嘴恶毒垃圾话还真是豁得出去。
很美好的又很套路的励志故事，爱德华兹演坏人可以啊
完成度很高的篮球体育题材类电影，讲述费城76人NBA球探在西班牙挖掘球星的故事，并且NBA现役球员担任主演并且出现了大量NBA球星和名宿，献给球迷的一块蛋糕，不过令人唏嘘的是最新消息主演因为出演这部电影在NBA表现不佳已被裁员，而片中的反派爱德华兹却是NBA冉冉升起的新秀巨星，虽然结尾很唐突，不过看到电影镜头的76人主场比赛场景，觉得值了
明知道是套路，还是被深刻感动到了，《必胜球探》作为一部纯粹的典型的篮球电影做出了不一样的舒服节奏，很棒，热血澎湃，有情有义，阿博看到女儿脱口而出露西娅的那一瞬间，我的眼泪也奔涌而出！理想太骨感，现实真丰满，映射隐喻交错，原型与电影两辙，命运这个东西很玄妙。亚当·桑德勒迷人极了，詹姆斯也居功至伟，从头至尾无数的NBA老少球星客串让喜欢篮球的影迷应该像当年看全明星赛一样爽！
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