Cha Cha Real Smooth

Check out this audience award winner from the 2022 Sundance Film Festival
Experience in-person the best of the 2022 Festival as part of our Local Lens screening program! Cha Cha Real Smooth won over viewers at this year’s Festival as the recipient of the Audience Award: U.S. Dramatic, and we know you’ll also fall in love with this irresistible romantic dramedy and its fantastic cast led by writer/director/actor Cooper Raiff and Dakota Johnson.

About the Film: Fresh out of college and without a clear life path going forward, 22-year-old Andrew is stuck back at home with his family in New Jersey. But if there’s one thing that belongs on his nonexistent résumé, it’s how to get a party started, which lands him the perfect job of motivational dancing at the bar and bat mitzvahs for his younger brother’s classmates. When Andrew befriends a local mom, Domino, and her daughter, Lola, he finally discovers a future he wants – even if it might not be his own. Cooper Raiff writes, directs, and stars alongside Dakota Johnson, Brad Garrett, Leslie Mann, and newcomers Vanessa Burghardt and Evan Assante in this tale of unconventional love that brims with emotional honesty.

Run Time: 93 minutes
Presented in English
Rated R for language and some sexual content.

Meet the Artist: Cha Cha Real Smooth is Cooper Raiff’s second original feature film. His directorial debut, Shithouse, which he also wrote, produced, edited, and starred in, was the recipient of the 2020 SXSW Film Festival Grand Jury Prize for Best Narrative Film. Raiff is in development on his third feature and several television series.