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".
“谁也不想要，但还是出生了。应该在生下之前就要打掉。”“最终还是丢掉了。”
故事略套路，温情得有点不像话。
电影是好看的，质量整体是不算差的，我是喜欢的。但放在是枝裕和影片的维度真的不太行，是目前未看过的是枝裕和质量最差的影片，是目前未看过的是枝裕和质量最差的影片，是目前未看过的是枝裕和质量最差的影片。（重要的事情要说三遍）
《掮客》名字取得真好：交易中介，放在儿童买卖中也很贴切。剧情很有是枝裕和的感觉，全程平淡温暖。但是人物刻画角度没法和《小偷家族》比，每个角色的性格都不突出，明明每个人都有很复杂的故事，但是给人的感觉就是正常的好人。（IU演失足迷惘落魄杀夫弃婴的角色也是很美的）
即使有那么多的似曾相识，是枝裕和还是贡献了震慑人心的戏法。看似真善美的结局，是他给予残忍现实的最大善良。
随便拿几条社会新闻就能攒出来的cliche也要生出来，真是pro电影的生命啊。
3.5 看完即忘的电影，故事和视听上都没什么惊喜，唯一能夸的还是导演选小孩演员的眼光吧。0.5星给制作。@cityplaza
虽然是枝裕和的叙事一直是平淡的，但从未觉得如此缓慢到难耐。与小偷家族如出一辙的故事，各怀鬼胎的人因为一个非法的意图凑在一起却慢慢生出类似家人的别扭感情，但韩国演员们夸张琐碎的表演让我火大，IU的精致到了后半段才渐渐不会使我出戏。第一次萌生了要去海边坐摩天轮的想法。谢谢你出生，虽然被剧透了无数遍但还是忍不住流泪。埋怨自己为什么要生活在这世上的人一瞬间的和解，只需要至少有一个人感激自己渺小的存在。
不管是是枝裕和还是宋康昊，他们的水平都没有达到生涯最佳，但是已经足够可以碾压大多数电影了。每个人都有特点，也有令人深刻的记忆点，只不过舞台从是枝裕和熟悉的家庭剧搬到了公路剧，不违和。结尾仓促，留白不少，需细品。
故事围绕着一个弃婴展开……
最不喜欢的一部是枝裕和，这帮子人在干什么？小妈问女jc 生之前杀掉比生下扔了更罪恶吗，女jc竟然语塞？神经病吧！漂亮国洗脑了吗
我强忍着往下看，每看一会儿就想暂停。看不出是枝裕和的影子。
关于生育孩子的问题总是聚焦于母亲，那父亲呢？这是责任的空缺，是人性的沉默之处。“在生下来之前打掉罪就更轻么”这大概是我永远也不认同的点。
每个人的戏剧呈现与弧光是那样的曲滑至臻，
清淡变成了寡淡，温情变成了温吞，一直到故事结束，五个人都没有被拧成一股绳，还是个散装家庭。女警察那条线，几乎可以说是败笔，冲淡了我对于剧情的期待。总的来说，挺失望。
绝大部分时候都觉得是枝裕和是无聊的，这部更放大了我的这个想法。
是枝裕和的溫馨童話实在是取向狙击我，质量差强人意但4星已经是我能打出的最低分。
有点假，有点温情。最令人动容的一幕是，黑暗中IU躺在床上，喊每个人的名字，说谢谢你出生在这个世界上……这个世界上，有的人很幸运，一出生就在光里；有的人很努力，再加一点幸运，可以一直向着光奔跑；可是，素英、东洙，还有这世上绝大多数的人，都在光照不到的地方千辛万苦地活着，这样的生命，也值得感谢吗？
快看瞌睡了。依然是散装家庭式故事，但是却没有《小偷家族》那般震撼，也没有日系的那种深沉情感，整部影片的情绪浮于表面，比白开水还无趣，明明有很多引爆的点，是枝裕和却什么都没有做，换个人拍，加点动作戏，节奏紧张一点也许更好，IU不错！
另一版的小偷家族，却少了共情感，换了个地儿，平淡的没滋没味，每个演员好像都不在角色里头别扭得很。iu是优质偶像，但不适合做演员，这么出彩的角色完全没有发挥出来
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