Enter Miyagi (Noriyuki "Pat" Morita), an aging handy-man who works at Daniel's apartment building. To make matters worse, Johnny is the ex-boyfriend of Ali (Elisabeth Shue), a girl Daniel is pursuing. At first, Daniel seems to do alright but, before long, he crosses paths with Johnny (William Zabka), the tough, rich leader of a group of karate students who attends Daniel's new school. With the comforts of his rough, middle-class neighborhood thousands of miles away, Daniel tries to make friends and blend with the well-to-do, upper-class kids in his new home. Daniel, however, quickly finds that, for him, the West Coast holds nothing but hard times. Daniel's mother has visions of a new start, a new life with the sky as the limit. "The Karate Kid" is the tale of Daniel Laruso (Ralph Macchio), a young man who, on the heels of his mother's finding a new job, is uprooted from Newark, New Jersey, to the sunny shores of California.
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