The 2026 season of the A.K. Smiley Public Library’s Southern California in Film series will open Saturday, Jan. 17, with the 1984 film “The Karate Kid.” The free screening is at 2 p.m. at the Contemporary Club, 173 S. Eureka St., Redlands. “The Karate Kid,” rated PG, is a coming-of-age sto ry about a teenage boy who learns to defend himself from bullies after moving across the country. Set in the San Fernando Valley, the movie was filmed in Reseda, Woodland Hills, Malibu and Norwalk’s Golf n’ Stuff Family Fun Center, according to a news release from the A.K. Smiley Public Library. The commercial success of the film has been credited with the revitalization of the martial arts industry for generations of children after the film’s release, according to the news release. For information on the A.K. Smiley Public Library’s Southern California in Film series and for schedule updates, go to akspl.org or call 909-798-7632. Related Articles Hemet-area residents take a polar plunge for charity Signs salute grads from Riverside’s Poly High — who will get diplomas 80 years apart Michelle’s Place Cancer Resource Center plans 25th anniversary gala Residents of Hemet’s Valley Restart Shelter create fifth edition of Cartless magazine ‘Out in the I.E.’ exhibit to open at Civil Rights Institute of Inland Southern California ...read more read less