Cha Cha Real Smooth
Appearance
Cha Cha Real Smooth is a 2022 American romantic comedy drama film about a 22-year-old college graduate who starts making money as a party starter while he also strikes up a relationship with a 32-year-old mother.
- Written and directed by Cooper Raiff.
Falling in love is easy. Growing up is hard.
Andrew
[edit]- I feel like there are things that you just, like, don't say to me. And I can't tell whether you're, like, holding back a desire to be close or a desire to be distant.
Domino
[edit]- Until I leave earth, I'm gonna have always been so tangled.
Dialogue
[edit]- Andrew: What's it like being depressed?
- Domino: I don't know. It feels like... like you remember what better feels like and then you do things that you think will make you feel better but they don't. They make it worse. And the things that I'm really scared of doing are probably the things that will help me the most, but I just can't do them.
- Andrew: Is he your soul mate?
- Domino: Do you believe in soul mates?
- Andrew: Yeah, I do. I think, on the Earth, we all have, like, a ton of soul mates. I think for you, maybe, it's like a special case where you only have a few who, like, could be and really are your soul mates. But most of the people in the world aren't your soul mate.
- Domino: How many soul mates?
- Andrew: For you, like, four.
- Domino: Four?
- Andrew: Yeah, four soul mates.
- Domino: I probably haven't met any of them.
- Andrew: No, you have. God puts them, like, on your path so you'll cross.
- Domino: How many do you have?
- Andrew: Like, 12... hundred.
- Domino: Have you met any?
- Andrew: Yes.
- Domino: Giving your heart to somebody is the scariest, most dangerous, most perplexing thing.
- Andrew: What if we just kiss? Maybe you'll change your mind.
- Domino: When I'm with you, I feel so alive, and I feel so special. But that's because it's all possibility. We're not in a relationship.
- Andrew: But what if we were in a relationship?
- Domino: I don't know. And I don't want to know because you are 22, and you deserve so much more than this.
- Andrew: [They are playing Scrabble] How are you so fast at this game?
- Lola: A lot of practice...
- Lola: [puts out her last tile] Yes!
- Andrew: What is happening? What are you doing? No, we are not done. No! No! What is farctate? What is farctate? That is not a word.
- Andrew: Farctate?
- Lola: It is a word.
- Andrew: Well, use it in a sentence.
- Lola: It's a farctated board now that I put those letters down.
- Andrew: What, a fucked up board? Like farctate... Like, you farted on it?
- Lola: No, it is filled. Farctate means to fill or stuff. It means full as opposed to hollow.
- Andrew: I don't believe you at all. And I am going to prove that you are...
- Andrew: [looking on phone] ...telling the truth. That is a word. I don't understand how you are so good at this game.
- Lola: I'm not that good. I am just a lot better than you.
- Domino: You can't just decide that you love somebody.
- Andrew: Yes, you can.
- Domino: No, you can't.
- Andrew: Yes, you can!
- Domino: I need to take off this fucking t-shirt.
- Andrew: I like your t-shirt.
- Domino: If you like it, then why don't you marry it.
- Rodrigo: Yeah, I've been waiting to kick their asses for three years now. And Greg, that was the meanest hook I've ever seen, my boy.
- Stepdad Greg: Unbelievable.
- Andrew: Yeah, Greg. I did not know you could move like that. What are you, Jake Paul?
- Domino: I want you to be in Lola's life. But I don't want you to babysit for us anymore.
- Andrew: Why?
- Domino: Because I want you to do your 20s.
- Andrew's Mom: I didn't want to say this before, and I am not just saying this because I'm your mother, but you're way too good for her and everybody knows that. Literally everyone I know thinks that.
- Andrew: Who?
- Andrew's Mom: Everyone. Greg-- it's true though.
- Andrew: Gregg told you that Maya was too good...
About
[edit]- Raiff's ambition to break free from sentimental formula and forge a path of his own is clear, making him an exciting young filmmaker to watch.
- Christy Lemire, "Cha Cha Real Smooth". Rogerebert.com.
Cast
[edit]- Cooper Raiff — Andrew, a Tulane University graduate who has recently moved back home
- Javien Mercado — twelve-year-old Andrew
- Dakota Johnson — Domino
- Evan Assante — David, Andrew's younger brother
- Vanessa Burghardt — Lola, Domino's daughter
- Leslie Mann — Lia, Andrew's mother
- Brad Garrett — Stepdad Greg
- Raúl Castillo — Joseph, Domino's fiancé
- Colton Osorio — Rodrigo, David's friend
- Amara Pedroso Saquel — Maya, Andrew's girlfriend
- Odeya Rush — Macy, Andrew's friend from high school
- Brooklyn Sloane Ramirez — Margaret
- Kelly O'Sullivan — Bella
External links
[edit]- Cha Cha Real Smooth quotes at the Internet Movie Database
