Cha Cha Real Smooth

Cha Cha Real Smooth (2022) is an American indie drama written, directed and starring Cooper Raiff — watch online on iFILM. Andrew is 22, freshly graduated and back in his New Jersey childhood bedroom with no idea what to do next. He stumbles into a job hyping up bar and bat mitzvahs, which turns out he's very good at.

At one of those parties he meets Domino (Dakota Johnson) and her autistic teenage daughter. A friendship forms — or something more than that, though neither of them names it. Andrew's talent is making people feel good in the room; what Domino forces him to learn is that that skill has a ceiling. Leslie Mann plays his mother, and the whole family dynamic carries its own low-key sadness that keeps the film from going soft.

Raiff's feature took the Audience Award at Sundance 2022. It's a film about being likeable enough to avoid growing up — until you can't anymore. Stream Cha Cha Real Smooth online on iFILM.