Age is definitely more than a number in the complicated romance of Cha Cha Real Smooth.
, the debut feature from actor/writer/director Cooper Raiff, was lined up for breakout hit status. Even with the festival canceled, Raiff's college blues still took home the Grand Jury Prize, and now he gets a second chance withDo-overs are sort of what his sophomore movie is about, but not necessarily as a chance to fix past wrongs. Andrew hasn't committed any sins, but he definitely isn't doing great.
Everyone's a dealing with being a little out of their age range. Andrew's great with younger teens but short on adult friends, Domino's younger than every other mom around and while she absolutely dotes on Lola, but young parenthood meant she never got the carefree 20s that she see Andrew both wasting and representing. As for Lola, her profound autism means she's three years older than everyone in her class.
It's scenes like this at which Raiff excels, those little personal dramas that stick in your mind years after they happen, those moments on which you gain perspective in hindsight but just feel huge at the time. Those kind of scenes allow him to veer away from an obvious three-act structure, instead constructing the story in almost a mosaic fashion, of anecdotes and moments, character progression rather than plot beats., but not in an ostentatious way.
And that's the funny thing about do-overs. Sometimes it's not about getting it's right. Sometimes it's just about not making the same mistake twice. If Raiff's first film was about two neurotic characters learning to get out of their own heads, then
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