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".
情节，表演，选景，拍摄，道具都没有吸引力，消磨时间也有点费劲
说不知道这片子在讲啥的，电影里耶鲁教授已经回答过了，而且两次！
乔治克鲁尼好多电影都是这样 没有明显的头尾 像是一本拿起来从哪里开始读都可以的书 还不错
和同期的贝尔法斯特不约而同的有很多相似之处都是67十年代的西方，不是很富有的家庭但是都有一个温暖的家庭，温暖的爷爷辈守护者指导着大家庭，尤其是文凭不高但是读了很多书的舅舅，在男主成长的道路上教了他很多父亲该教的事情。全篇一直在提回忆录的盛行，全篇也是男主的回忆录，回忆童年家庭的贫穷，回忆了初恋的苦恼，回忆了畜生一样的父亲，以及温柔的舅舅和他的温柔酒吧。
整部电影的主题感觉没有很明确，父亲的缺失这一主线没有贯彻的很好，但这绝对是最能展现本·阿弗莱克魅力的电影，满足了所有人幻想中的舅舅形象.
还要大赞永远的克里斯 罗伊德 一场在沙发上与女儿讨论小盆友未来的争论 一次正装参加小学生亲友聚餐 。。。不到10分钟的演绎 就让一个坏脾气 却热爱家人 受过高等教育 又固执别扭 老头子形象跃然屏幕
很有代入感的人生传记，JR从小家庭非原生，父亲酗酒家暴，却有开酒吧的舅舅、温柔的母亲和睿智的外公们的一路陪伴、小JR也是聪明优秀一路考入耶鲁，校园怀拥校花…但人生路不是永远一帆风顺的，以律师为目标的HR，在毕业后面临女友分手、工作无望等因素坚定了他唯一的出路：作家。开放式的结尾，鼓励每一位年轻人，所以的逆境都是暂时的，怀着一颗向前出发的心！
轻巧温柔的故事，配上好听的歌曲，以及迷人的七十年代背景，这种组合无论怎样的配置，都一定会令人赏心悦目。
我觉得还不错，那种自由的感觉，很令我着迷。可能在另一个平行世界我也是这样的生活吧。
非常美国。。今年在美国体验了很local的生活。真的就是酒吧，买车，各种人之间复杂的关系，感情。如果主角是女的而且没去到yale，我感觉很像我的生活了。。😂
以后看到克鲁尼导演的作品都要绕路走了。除了童年的男主超级可爱，美术也不错，故事讲的流水账，毫无起伏，味同嚼蜡
这样一个平凡又坚定的成长故事本来可以照“父亲”角色的缺失（寻找男性楷模）到迷茫、困顿，探寻自我价值和身份认同的轨迹，用“痛感”使观众产生共鸣，但是讲故事的方式真挺没新意，双线叙事只是让结构更加零散了，成品到了最后搞成温吞吞经典美式鸡汤励志小品也给了我一种被骗的感觉。但是实在喜欢舅舅这个角色和莉莉拉贝，所以还是三星。
The Tender Bar script is based on the best-selling 2005 memoir of the same name by J. R. Moehringer, which tells the true story of Moehringer's childhood growing up in Long Island, New York in the 1970s and '80s.
纯爷们片，全篇基本没女角色。游走在灰色地带的警察，更适合在古时武侠世界里生活。
蝙蝠侠和美国队长各自都已经演过超级好的（梦想有个这样的）舅舅了。昂～
JR跟女友父母吃早餐那个场景 我都替JR感到尴尬
看完蛮感动的。以后也要开一个全是书籍的bar！
还是不错看的商业片，不以打斗场面取胜的警匪片，着力刻画一个亦正亦邪的警官以及如何将“何为正义”传承下来的小徒新手。
非常old school ，细水长流般的tender
精良流水线作系列。一想起小崔在本片发布会上带宣传那年我们就会笑死:D
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