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Movie Overview
Cast
Ralph Macchio
Noriyuki Morita
Elisabeth Shue
Director
John G. Avildsen
MPAA Rating
PG
The Karate Kid (1984)
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3.5/5
"
The Karate Kid
works mostly due to the worthy emotional investment put into the characters..."
Classic Movie Guide
A. J. Hakari
"Tells the engaging story of a handyman at a housing complex who teaches martial arts to a boy yearning for mastery of self."
Spirituality and Practice
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
B+
"Formulaic, manipulative, hokey — and thoroughly rousing… the film's sincerity and poignance have a way of steamrolling over gaps in plausibility and logic."
Decent Films Guide
Steven D. Greydanus
3.5/4
"Morita's work in
The Karate Kid
is iconographic."
Film Freak Central
Walter Chaw
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