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".
一个本可以让很多人共情的私人故事，拍得如此散漫、乏味又自说自话，实在徒增焦虑。
一个童年
虽然人物画风、配音和TV版有点差别，但情节设置还不错，孩子们看得一会儿紧张一会儿开心的。
#TIFF 2021#每个人心里都有一座叫故乡的城，对阿方索·卡隆来说是罗马，对肯尼思·布拉纳来说就是贝尔法斯特。那些离开的游子，那些留下的故人，在时代的洪流里显得那么微不足道，但总有人写点什么拍点什么，当打开历史的小盒子，里面满是珍藏的私人回忆。朱迪·丹奇得奖时刻再现。
这是所有有过移民体验或者对移民文化熟悉的人都能产生强烈情感链接的故事。
漂泊的爱尔兰人，离开家乡很多人都是出于无奈。难以割舍的故乡情，难以忘怀的童年经历，留下来是为了一辈子的安心，离开却是因为世事动荡。小时候每天玩耍的街道，亲人们与邻居们的笑脸，经历动乱却载歌载舞的乐观的人们，还有自己喜欢的小姑娘，童年的这些珍贵记忆，想必会永远烙印在巴迪的脑海里。
P.S.歌曲都很好听～～是太好听了！！！
就算在civil war的时候，buddy的童年还是很开心的，有暗恋的女生，和爷爷奶奶拌嘴，和家人春游玩游戏，在看似应该是黑暗家庭负债的情况下，buddy一家人made the best out of it. If you can’t be good, be careful. 从小就展现出对film的热爱。好喜欢这部电影的背景配乐，萨克斯风solo的style真的是一股清流. If they can’t understand you, they are not listening.
差点东西，看上去成本不算高，私人情感的表现不是特别深刻，但有诚意。judi演的好，还有老爷爷说的“你走了，贝尔法斯特还在”，演母亲的演员，情感表现的不动声色却含情脉脉
很好看，装备，车，都比电视上好很多，最后结局还收了新的队员贝贝，孩子看完还想看
陪孩子看汪汪队立大功的大电影的时候，我心里就在想，果然老美的文化输出是一以贯之的，就是动画片也是英雄救援风格，外加童年阴影和克服童年阴影，不完美的英雄克服恐惧成为真正的英雄，跟好莱坞输出的价值观完全一致啊。
我不行，即便女主是我一度非常钟爱的女演员。抱着《罗马》的期待期待喂了狗。
Nostagia oversell。每一次配乐都让我想翻一次白眼。
非常积极，非常正确，感觉汪汪队比少先队还会洗脑。小朋友是挺喜欢的，但是我觉得有必要让孩子少看这些动画片。
dodo也被家乡的依靠说过同样的话：
北爱版《童年往事》，巧的是被套上了北爱的激进岁月，呼应了当下这个大撕裂的时代，每年的颁奖季都有这么几部私心重又步步踩点得分的命题作文，应景但并不讨巧，顶多是这个风口的注脚。
画质好棒的，狗爪子毛茸茸的好想摸摸，内容也比较积极向上，通过动画对孩子进行积极向上的引导，英雄也会害怕，每个人都需要成长，整场孩子欢笑挺多的
正在读一本90年代国内拼死偷渡去美国热潮的书，不是说人的suffer可以分出高下，但是就，不太能relate从爱尔兰搬去英格兰升职加薪还给房子的痛苦。
爱尔兰人的戏剧性和幽默感往往和各种离乡背井的故事穿插在一起。
20220115 北京海淀工人文化宫 没看过前几季，完全不影响直接观看。合家欢的动画片。色彩丰富，狗狗们都个性鲜明，智勇可爱。在电影里阿奇也直面了自己一直回避的痛点，破茧而出，成为了更好的狗狗。专门跑了很远看的原版场次，几位大牌配音很棒
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