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 ...

Cha Cha Real Smooth tries so hard to be sincere. The second feature by writer-director-actor Cooper Raiff (after 2020’s Shithouse) is a coming-of-age narrative that doesn’t feature any outward ...

There might be coming-of-age films about the preteen experience of going to Bar-mitzvahs, but what about the party starters in the background? In Cooper Raiff’s second feature film, “Cha Cha Real ...

Now streaming on Apple TV+ and playing a limited theatrical release, Cooper Raiff’s romantic comedy “Cha Cha Real Smooth” clearly has a lot of people’s numbers. Far be it from me to dump on a ...

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The movie debut this week in theaters and on Apple TV+ Having already won the coveted Audience Award at Sundance in January, "Cha Cha Real Smooth" makes its smashing debut this week in theaters and on ...

Cooper Raiff and Dakota Johnson in Cha Cha Real Smooth. Credit: Courtesy Apple TV+ Like recent Oscar Best Picture winner CODA, also produced by Apple TV+, Cooper Raiff’s Cha Cha Real Smooth bodes 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 ...

Este Haim is most famously known as a sister. In addition to shredding bass and serving face at Haim shows around the world, she played a version of herself opposite sisters Danielle and Alana (and ...

WHAT IT'S ABOUT "Cha Cha Real Smooth" tells the story of Andrew (Cooper Raiff), 22, fresh out of Tulane University and suffering through that familiar motion picture phenomenon of post-graduation ...

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 ...

When Cooper Raiff pitched Dakota Johnson on a film about a college grad who’s great at starting bar and bat mitzvah parties but clueless about starting his adult life, she was immediately in. There ...