Scix Maddix, Ari Dennis and J. Wilford Neville riff this tortured, twisted tale of forbidden love. Many a film has been crafted about this risque topic, but few truly capture that frustration we've all felt when we fall for someone we know the people around us won't accept as well as the '80s classic "The Karate Kid." Ralph Macchio portrays a conflicted young man whose emotions for Johnny keep boiling over, causing fights to break out over the smallest of things (like Elizabeth Shue), misdirected rage turning into flying fists and kicking feet. Soon, however, a cantankerous older man who knows too well the pang of regret that can grow into a shard buried deep in the heart when a love is denied, takes Ralph in and teaches him how to channel his frustration into something meaningful: karate.