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The arrival of the film “Cha Cha Real Smooth” announces not just one but two noteworthy new talents. It wasn’t until “Cha Cha” played at the 2022 South by Southwest festival that Raiff finally got to ...
Andrew (Raiff) is a young man who is a recent college graduate in New Jersey. However, he works at a dead-end job at the mall that he hates. Andrew aimlessly moves through life to figure out his exact ...
Ross Bonaime is the Senior Film Editor at Collider. He is a Virginia-based critic, writer, and editor who has written about all forms of entertainment for Paste Magazine, Brightest Young Things, ...
Vanessa Burghardt is the breakout star of "Cha Cha Real Smooth," starring Dakota Johnson and Cooper Raiff, who also wrote and directed. Burghardt, an autistic actor, portrays Lola, the autistic ...
Discover What’s Streaming On: It’s fitting that the first two movies Dakota Johnson produced via her company, TeaTime—founded in 2019 with former Netflix development executive Ro Donnelly—are centered ...
The creation of Cooper Raiff’s second feature film Cha Cha Real Smooth was a true collaboration, with main actor and producer Dakota Johnson coming on board before the script was complete. “There wasn ...
From the perspective of filmmaker Cooper Raiff, Cha Cha Real Smooth embodies a specific kind of “feel-good” spirit of which he’s always in pursuit. The Sundance Audience Award winner is the ...
Will somebody please continue to give two-time filmmaker Cooper Raiff the resources he needs to make whatever movies he wants while firmly and in perpetuity revoking his titling privileges? “Cha Cha ...
Cooper Raiff wrote, directed, and stars in this story about a recent college grad who falls for an older woman (Dakota Johnson) with an autistic daughter (Vanessa Burghardt) “Cha Cha Real Smooth” has ...
A recent college graduate moves back home, drifts along and strikes up an unlikely friendship with a single mother in this Sundance indie. By Manohla Dargis When you purchase a ticket for an ...