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The Karate Kid 126 minutes, USA (1984), PG
Average user rating (4.4 / 9 votes)
Ralph Macchio and Elisabeth Shue in The Karate Kid

Ralph Macchio plays a troubled teen who learns martial arts to defeat school bullies in a film that's so knee deep in the 1980s, it's impossible to hate

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The Karate Kid: If you're old enough to remember the 1980s, then it's possible that you were young enough to think that no other film could ever be as entertaining as The Karate Kid. What can now be seen as an attempt by Rocky helmer John Avildsen to re-heat a successful formula then simply seemed like the most impressive cavalcade of kick-ass action this side of 'The A-Team'. But with kids...
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