CHA CHA REAL SMOOTH
It's time to get funky. CHA CHA REAL SMOOTH (trailer here) is finally streaming on AppleTV+, and any fan of writer/director Cooper Raiff's SHITHOUSE is bound to fall in love all over again. Raiff plays Andrew, an ambivalent recent college grad who stumbles into a job as a bar mitzvah party starter. When he forms a bond with single mom Domino (Dakota Johnson) and her daughter Lola (Vanessa Burghardt), he starts to realize that figuring out who the hell you are, where you belong, and who you belong with is never easy. It's a movie about how love is simultaneously the simplest and messiest thing in the world—whether you're a recently-dumped 22-year-old, or a 13-year-old with braces mustering up the courage to ask your girlfriend to slow dance. Let CHA CHA be your Friday movie night for some laughs, some adorably awkward prepubescent nostalgia, and even some tears—especially if you're me watching that one scene between Andrew and his mom (Leslie Mann). You'll know the one.
—Alicia Devereaux, Development Assistant
