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".
特别喜欢这个故事，集合了很多我感兴趣的点！因硕论涉及植物谱录，也看了不少博物学古籍相关的论文，类似的历史原型我们其实也不少的。电影拍得极富古典意蕴，兄弟书信往来，千里共婵娟，明月照大江的场景特别美，想到苏轼，想到他一路被贬，也还是乐观通达地观察万物。丁若铨儒雅博学的士大夫形象，也像从古书中走出似的，师生互动很有趣。无力探索人心，研究世界运转的机理也不枉所学，那是灰色世界里如蓝鸟一般的希望，是生命力所在。
李睿溢《思悼》之后最好的古装片，一部关于信仰的电影，当信仰被现实击碎，人该怎么活？丁若铨用一生回答了这个问题：“我们都在阴沟里，但仍有人仰望星空。”
虽然这版没能超越我对原版的喜爱，可是依然爱到不行。除了一家人的职业设定之外，故事基本跟原版一样，虽然很俗套，可是还是会被故事里那种纯粹的真善美所感动，虽然清楚故事的每个节点，可是依然会吸引着你，几首歌曲选得真好，歌单又可以更新了。声音设计依然很出色，特别是音乐会上那段消音的处理，最后面试那场戏手语一出来，眼泪立马就控制不住了。不过相对于原版最后三首歌情感上递进式的处理，这版确实是削弱了，这也是更符合美国电影的节奏了。8.5
so cliche and disney🙄️
选歌很棒，剧情简单有张力，行云流水，看到ruby在面试那幕直接爆哭。。
故事脉络很像《跳出我天地》，
现在奥斯卡就疼爱这些废话连篇的温水片，想不懂为啥新一代编导就那么乐意去骗观众眼泪，用手语唱歌那一段给我恶心坏了
失望，还以为是什么好片呢，桃姐竟然还给了五星，就是一个很普通的鸡汤片吧。以及，原来伯克利这么好考啊，而且奖学金也很好申请的样子？
我家那口说，baby you are a lover not a fighter，那我也别装了，就可劲儿哭呗。泪点不来自廉价煽情，好看的！
当年看《贝利叶一家》就哭得稀里哗啦的 美版翻的也挺好 就是感觉最后面试时唱的歌不如原版有冲击力 笑死Ferdia的高原红一直没变 以及妈妈真是个美人儿啊~
7.5
瞎子会不会画画
可能是年纪大了，一部温情小品，又感动到稀里哗啦。但是这个剧本和题材真的太催泪。感谢编导，借着女主角，带我们走入聋哑人的世界，让我们看到太多的不平等和隔阂，也对充满爱、理解和包容的世界心存希冀。
尽管剧本来说还是略微俗套了点，但好几个桥段真的止不住泪水与感动啊，聋哑人士和家庭里唯一一个健听女生的设定，让故事从主角的家庭和梦想抉择出发，勇敢和面对现实，追逐梦想的背后是家人的理解和支持，也让这份“无声”的亲情胜过太多。世俗的另眼相待和偏见，最让我感触的是无法与外界沟通和结交朋友，就仿佛他们不适应这个世界，也是最感动的在于，他们成为了彼此的珍爱和唯一，那一场无声戏实在是感同身受。哥哥这个角色是最富有特点的，从各个角度看来他并没有把自己当作残疾人士，支持妹妹的梦想，想要依靠自己的能力打拼事业，无疑是最坚强和勇敢的，而一家人如此具有善心和情怀，也是世界上最幸福的事
全家人一起开车狂奔赶时间，很像当年的《阳光小美女》，最初的保罗达诺。
3-22 coda在音乐里意味着结束。看之前以为自己不会爱上这部电影，到后面还是被感动，倒也不是电影有多煽情，而是能relate到更多角色的心情。女儿为家庭付出了很多，但是也想拥有自己的人生，毕竟还是高中生，终于开始追求梦想。学校的部分就是glee all over again，谢谢老师的reference，让这部电视剧的影响还能到今天。家庭里，生活有艰难的部分，但是一家人相亲相爱，就是最好的事情了。一个让人开心又流泪的故事，我依旧是爱音乐，这个世界终究是离不开音乐。
我用手势开始比划
3星，很温情，很治愈的影片， 翻拍《贝利叶一家》，内容清汤寡水，情节偏向俗套，也就没那么好了。
虽然人人都不想被鸡汤牵着鼻子走，但有时候还是挺香的。
我很羞愧：我已经完全忘记了贝利叶一家的剧情。
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