Crossroads (1986)

my dad walked in when the guitar battle was happening and he said, with the most confused voice 'which karate kid is this?'

vela🕯

I'm not a (karate) kid Not yet a bluesman

Austin Shermer

Action! - The Unlikely Rumble: Hill v Hyams After mastering the arduous martial arts and becoming the renowned Karate Kid, Ralph Macchio now aspires to become a guitar legend, a genuine Guitar Hero. Will this be enough to let our opponent Hill continue his ascension up…

Rafael "Mister Movie" Jovine

now why can’t every movie end with a guitar duel that determines whether or not the devil gets your soul?

benton tarantella

If you didn’t want people to compare your film to Karate Kid, maybe don’t cast Ralph Macchio in Blues Kid. Or you did it intentionally to try to make more money. Either way, it’s pretty clear. It’s a decent road trip film, showing Blues Kid what it means to be an old Blues…

gregs1999

Not the Britney Spears film but rather a rock n’ roll blues drama from director Walter Hill. The story concerns a young music progeny played by Ralph Macchio, who is on a quest for a missing Robert Johnson song, and finds one of Johnson’s long lost friends who he hopes will…

Jesse

"Back in my day hobos respected each other!" Juilliard guitar student Eugene Martone (Ralph Macchio) busts Willie Brown (Joe Seneca), an old blues man, out of an old age home and the two head south to track down a lost Robert Johnson song. Their journey takes them to the…

Jesse Snoddon

Somehow a film starring Ralph Macchio as a blues/classical guitarist manages to be more respectful of the history of black music in America than La La Land. Not that it was actually respectful of, well, anything; this film is an absurdity. It just clears the bare minimal…

Sally Jane Black

The one that got me into the blues and a damn fine road film!

Helen_S