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The Karate Kid (1984): Scores Across IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB

The Karate Kid is a 1984 action, drama film directed by John G. Avildsen. It scores 7.4 on IMDb, 81% on Rotten Tomatoes, 61 on Metacritic, 7.2 on TMDB. Audiences and critics disagree: scaled to 100, IMDb users give it 74 while Metacritic critics give it 61, a gap of 13 points in favor of audiences. Ranked by confidence-weighted IMDb score, it is number 12 of 77 films from 1984 in our catalog and number 175 of 1,542 action films.

Billed cast: Ralph Macchio, Pat Morita, Elisabeth Shue, William Zabka, Martin Kove, Randee Heller.

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